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Garnet Bailey

Garnet "Ace" Bailey (1948–2001), Canadian NHL left wing and scout; two Stanley Cups with Boston, five as Edmonton Oilers scout; Kings pro scouting director killed on United Flight 175, 9/11.

Garnet K. L. Chan

Garnet K. L. Chan, also known as Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, is a Hong Kong-born theoretical chemist at Caltech known for tensor-network methods in quantum chemistry.

Garnet solid electrolyte

A garnet solid electrolyte is a ceramic lithium-ion conductor of the garnet mineral structure, most prominently LLZO, first reported in 2007 and valued for combining high lithium-ion conductivity with stability against lithium metal.

Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley

Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913), Anglo-Irish field-marshal of Red River, Ashanti, Tel-el-Kebir, and Gordon relief fame; also the reformer behind the modern British Army and the phrase 'All Sir Garnet.'

Garnett Kelsoe

Garnett Kelsoe is an American immunologist, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Immunology at Duke, known for germinal center and B cell tolerance research.

Garni temple

Garni temple (Գառնիի տաճար), a first-century basalt Ionic temple in Kotayk Province, Armenia, attributed to King Tiridates I (77 AD), the only Greco-Roman colonnaded building in the former USSR, rebuilt after the 1679 earthquake.

Garo (牙狼〈GARO〉) (TV series)

Garo (牙狼〈GARO〉) is a 2005 Japanese live-action tokusatsu TV series by creator Keita Amemiya, aired late-night on TV Tokyo for 25 episodes. It follows Makai Knight Kouga Saejima hunting Horrors, and launched a multi-continuity franchise of sequels, anime, films, and pachinko games.

Garo people

The Garo people (A'chik, Mande) are a Sino-Tibetan-speaking matrilineal ethnic group of Meghalaya's Garo Hills, Assam, and Mymensingh, Bangladesh, known for Nokna heiress inheritance, the Songsarek religion, widespread Christianity, and the Wangala harvest festival.

Garo: The Animation

Garo: The Animation (Garo: Honoo no Kokuin), the first animated work in the Garo tokusatsu franchise, follows Leon Luis's battle against Horrors in a medieval, Spain-like kingdom.

Garona

Garona Halforcen is Blizzard's Warcraft half-orc assassin, introduced in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (1994) as King Llane's killer; current canon makes her half-draenei, mother of Med'an, and an Uncrowned leader, unlike the film's half-human, Medivh's daughter, played by Paula Patton.

Garotman Terra

Garotman Terra is a 970-km-wide IAU-named landmass (terra) on Titan near the equator, approved January 5, 2012, named for an Iranian paradise where souls of faithful men dwell; third largest of Titan's five terrae.

Garou (singer)

Garou (Pierre Garand, born 1972, Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian pop singer famous as Quasimodo in Notre-Dame de Paris and the hit "Belle" (1998); over 5 million albums, Seul (2000), duet "Sous le vent" with Céline Dion.

Garoua

Garoua is a city in northern Cameroon on the Benue River, chief town of the Nord Region and seat of a Fulani lamidat founded in 1809.

Garpiya (Гарпия)

Garpiya (Гарпия, "Harpy") is a Russian loitering munition produced by IEMZ Kupol, a subsidiary of Almaz-Antey, with Chinese engines; it has struck Ukraine since 2024.

Garrafina

Garrafina, a popular Spanish domino game for 2-4 players with a double six set, also called a Mexican Train-like cross-layout train game; Mexican variant Correlativa uses a boneyard.

Garratt locomotive

A Garratt, or Beyer-Garratt, is an articulated steam locomotive with its boiler and cab slung between two separate engine units, patented by Herbert William Garratt in 1907.

Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis

Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis (periostitis ossificans, proliferative periostitis) is a rare nonsuppurative chronic osteomyelitis of children and young adults, causing onion-skin periosteal bone, cortical thickening, negative cultures, and mainly symptomatic treatment.

Garret D. Stuber

Garret D. Stuber is a neuroscientist who studies neural circuits of reward and motivation; he is a professor at the University of Washington, where he has led a center for addiction research since 2018.

Garret Dillahunt

Garret Lee Dillahunt (born 1964) is an American actor known for two roles on Deadwood, Burt Chance in Raising Hope, No Country for Old Men, Fear the Walking Dead's John Dorie, and William Macon in HBO's Lanterns.

Garret FitzGerald

Garret A. FitzGerald is an Irish physician-scientist who directs ITMAT at the University of Pennsylvania and showed that low-dose aspirin prevents heart attacks and stroke.

Garret Hobart

Garret Augustus Hobart (1844–1899), 24th US vice president under McKinley 1897–1899, New Jersey corporate lawyer and Republican organizer nicknamed the 'Assistant President'; died in office, succeeded on the ticket by Theodore Roosevelt.

Garret Miyake

Garret M. Miyake is an American chemist at Colorado State University known for developing organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization (O-ATRP), which makes polymers with organic catalysts and visible light.

Garret P. Westerhoff

Garret P. Westerhoff is an American environmental engineer who spent 34 years at Malcolm Pirnie, rising to chairman and CEO, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Garrett Birkhoff

Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996) was an American mathematician who spent his career at Harvard and is known for lattice theory, universal algebra, and the textbook Survey of Modern Algebra.

Garrett Brown

Garrett Brown, also known as Garrett Wood Brown, is an American inventor and cinematographer who invented the Steadicam in 1975 and created Skycam, MobyCam, and DiveCam camera systems.

Garrett Camp

Garrett Camp, born 1978, is a Canadian software engineer and serial founder who co-founded StumbleUpon and Uber, then founded the startup studio Expa.

Garrett Clayton

Garrett Clayton (Gary Michael Clayton, born 1991) is an American actor, singer, and dancer from Dearborn, Michigan, known for Disney's Teen Beach Movie, King Cobra, and Hairspray Live!.

Garrett Dellinger

Garrett Dellinger, born 2002, is an NFL offensive guard from Clarkston, Michigan; LSU four-year lineman drafted 243rd overall by the Ravens in 2025, later with the Browns and Titans.

Garrett Gilbert

Garrett Gilbert, American football quarterback; Texas and SMU colleges; 2008 Gatorade National Player of the Year; sixth-round 2014 Rams pick; first NFL start 2020 for Cowboys; also played for Panthers, Browns, Washington, Patriots.

Garrett Gilmore

Garrett Gilmore (William Evans Garrett Gilmore, 1895-1969), American sculler of Philadelphia's Bachelors Barge Club; 1924 Olympic single sculls silver behind Jack Beresford, 1932 Olympic double sculls gold with Ken Myers.