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György Gattyán
György Gattyán is a Hungarian technology entrepreneur who founded the LiveJasmin webcam platform in 2001, built Luxembourg-based Docler Holding, and ranks among Hungary's richest people.
Gyorgy Gedo
Gyorgy Gedo (Hungarian: Gedó György; born 1949) is a retired Hungarian amateur boxer who won the 1972 Munich Olympics light flyweight gold and boxed at four consecutive Olympics.
Gyorgy Gerendas
György Gerendás (Gerendás György), born 1954 in Budapest, Hungarian water polo player and coach; Olympic gold 1976 Montreal and bronze 1980 Moscow, 230 caps, later coached BVSC, Eger and Ferencváros.
György Hajnóczky
György Hajnóczky, trained in medicine at Semmelweis University in Budapest, is a professor at Thomas Jefferson University who directs its Mitochondrial Research Center and studies mitochondrial calcium signaling.
György Hajós
György Hajós (1912–1972) was a Hungarian mathematician who worked in group theory, graph theory, and geometry, proving Minkowski's conjecture on lattice tilings of space by cubes in 1941.
Gyorgy Horkai
György Horkai (Horkai György), born 1954 in Budapest, is a Hungarian water polo left-hander who won Olympic gold in 1976 and bronze in 1980 with BVSC, earned 282 caps, and coached Hungary to the 1995 World Cup title.
Gyorgy Karpati
Gyorgy Karpati (György Kárpáti, 1935–2020), Hungarian water polo player, three-time Olympic champion (1952, 1956, 1964) and 1960 bronze medalist, three-time European champion with Ferencvárosi TC, youngest male Olympic water polo champion, later 1976 gold-winning assistant coach.
Gyorgy Kenez
Gyorgy Kenez (György Kenéz, born 1956, Budapest) is a Hungarian water polo wing who won Olympic gold at Montreal 1976, two world silvers, and later coached Vasas and Kuwait.
György Klapka
György Klapka (1820–1892) was a Hungarian revolutionary general and politician, best known for defending the fortress of Komárom during the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848–1849.
György Kmety
György Kmety, known as Ismail Pasha in Ottoman service, was a Hungarian honvéd general of the 1848–1849 War of Independence who later defended Kars in 1855.
Gyorgy Kolonics
Gyorgy Kolonics (Kolonics György, 1972–2008) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who won two Olympic gold medals and a record fifteen world championship titles, dying of heart failure a month before the Beijing Olympics.
György Konrád
György Konrád, published in English as George Konrád, was a Hungarian novelist, essayist, and sociologist whose debut novel The Case Worker (1969) drew on his work as a children's welfare supervisor.
Gyorgy Kutasi
György Kutasi (Kutasi György, born Kusinszky, 1910-1977), Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 1936 Olympic and 1934 European champion; later a coach in Melbourne, Australia. Distinct from same-named boxer and MMA fighter.
György Ligeti
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian-Austrian avant-garde composer born in Transylvania, creator of micropolyphony in Apparitions and Atmosphères, opera Le Grand Macabre, and the Piano Études; famous worldwide through Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
György Lukács
György Lukács (Lukács György, 1885–1971), Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary theorist, founder of Western Marxism; author of History and Class Consciousness (1923) and its reification critique, later aesthetics and social ontology.
Gyorgy Tumpek
György Tumpek (Tumpeck), Hungarian swimmer, the "dolphin king": 1956 Olympic 200 m butterfly bronze, first 1954 European 200 fly champion, six 100 m butterfly world records with the dolphin kick, later Honvéd coach.
Gyorgy Vizvari
György Vízvári (Vízvári György, born Weiss), Hungarian water polo player, 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold medalist and 1954 Torino European champion with Újpesti TE; died 2004.
Győző Kulcsár
Győző Kulcsár (1940–2018) was a Hungarian épée fencer, the most successful in Hungarian Olympic history with four golds and two bronzes between 1964 and 1976, and later a coach.
Gyp Rosetti
Gyp Rosetti (Giuseppe Colombano Rosetti) is the fictional main antagonist of Boardwalk Empire season 3, a Sicilian Masseria underboss based in Tabor Heights played by Bobby Cannavale, who won a 2013 Emmy for the role.
Gyps fulvus
Gyps fulvus, the griffon vulture or Eurasian griffon, is a large 6–11 kg Accipitridae scavenging vulture of Europe, Asia, and Africa that soars on thermals, feeds on large-mammal carrion, nests on cliffs, and is IUCN Least Concern with Spain holding most of the population.
Gypsophila
Gypsophila (baby's-breath), genus of about 150 Caryophyllaceae herbs native to Eurasia and North Africa; G. paniculata is a noxious invasive tumbleweed in North American dunes, and the genus is rich in saponins and other medicinal compounds.
Gypsophila paniculata
Gypsophila paniculata, commonly known as baby's breath, is a perennial herb in the carnation family, native from east-central Europe to western Mongolia and grown worldwide as a cut flower for its tiny white flowers.
Gypsum
Gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O), a soft sulfate mineral, is the most common sulfate mineral, deposited from evaporating seawater and best known as the raw material of plaster and wallboard.
Gypsum karst subsidence belts
A gypsum karst subsidence belt is a tract of ground underlain by dissolving gypsum, where sinkholes and sudden collapse develop far faster than in limestone karst.
Gypsy (1962 film)
Gypsy (1962) is Warner Bros.' Mervyn LeRoy film of the 1959 Broadway musical, starring Rosalind Russell as Mama Rose, Natalie Wood as Gypsy Rose Lee, and Karl Malden, with three Oscar nominations.
Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac song)
"Gypsy" is a 1982 Fleetwood Mac song written by Stevie Nicks for the album Mirage, also cut for her solo debut Bella Donna. It peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 1 on Radio & Records, and honors her late friend Robin Anderson.
Gypsy (musical)
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a 1959 Broadway musical by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and Stephen Sondheim based on Gypsy Rose Lee's memoirs, starring Ethel Merman as Mama Rose, with five Broadway revivals including the 2024 Audra McDonald production.
Gypsy (musician)
Gypsy is the stage name of Winston Peters, a Trinidadian calypsonian who won the 1997 Calypso Monarch title, took multiple Extempo crowns, and served as a government minister.
Gypsy (TV series)
Gypsy is a 2017 Netflix psychological thriller created by Lisa Rubin, starring Naomi Watts as therapist Jean Holloway, who uses an alias to enter patients' lives; 10 episodes, canceled after one season.
Gypsy Hill killings
Gypsy Hill killings, also called the San Mateo Slasher case: murders of five young women in San Mateo County, California, January–April 1976. DNA later linked Rodney Halbower to two murders and the 1976 Reno killing of Michelle Mitchell; Leon Seymour was charged in a third, and Cathy Woods was exonerated.