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Gary Allan

Gary Allan (Gary Allan Herzberg), California-born country singer signed to Decca in 1996; platinum album Smoke Rings in the Dark (1999), No. 1 album Set You Free (2013), and the 2021 comeback album Ruthless.

Gary Anandasangaree

Gary Anandasangaree (Sathiyasangaree Anandasangaree) is a Canadian Liberal MP for Scarborough, Ontario, since 2015 and Minister of Public Safety since May 2025; earlier he was Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and briefly Minister of Justice and Attorney General, the first Tamil-Canadian in that role.

Gary and His Demons

Gary and His Demons is a Canadian adult animated comedy created by Mark Little, about a 45-year-old reluctant Chosen One demon slayer who cannot retire; two seasons, 26 episodes, 2018-2022, VRV then Prime Video and Freevee.

Gary Andersen

Gary Andersen is an American college football coach, born 1964, who led Southern Utah, Utah State, Wisconsin, and Oregon State, and rebuilt Utah State into an 11-2 conference champion.

Gary Anderson

Gary Lee Anderson (born 1939, Holdrege, Nebraska) is the American rifle shooter who won Olympic gold in 300 m free rifle at Tokyo 1964 and Mexico City 1968, both in world-record scores; also a NZ cyclist and Canadian swimmer of the same name.

Gary Anderson (darts player)

Gary Anderson, The Flying Scotsman (born 1970, Musselburgh, Scotland), Scottish darts player; two-time PDC world champion 2015 and 2016, five-time world finalist, former BDO major winner who joined the PDC in 2009.

Gary Anderson (placekicker)

Gary Anderson, born 1959 in Parys, South Africa, soccer-playing NFL placekicker 1982-2004; 2,434 points, 538 field goals (80.1%), perfect 1998 season, Steelers' all-time scoring leader, Hall of Fame finalist.

Gary Anthony Williams

Gary Anthony Williams (born 1966) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and voice actor from Fayetteville, Georgia, known for Uncle Ruckus on The Boondocks, Abe on Malcolm in the Middle, Clarence Bell on Boston Legal, Bebop in TMNT: Out of the Shadows, and Night Court's Flobert.

Gary Aston‐Jones

Gary Aston-Jones is an American neuroscientist who directs the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University and is known for the adaptive-gain theory of locus coeruleus function and orexin's role in addiction.

Gary B. Schuster

Gary B. Schuster is a photochemist and Vasser Woolley Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, known for the CIEEL chemiluminescence mechanism and for long-distance charge transport in duplex DNA.

Gary Banker

Gary Banker, also known as Gary A. Banker, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist known for defining how a developing neuron acquires its polarized shape.

Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow (born 1971, Frodsham, Cheshire) is an English singer-songwriter, lead singer and chief songwriter of Take That, with 14 number one singles, six Ivor Novello Awards, an OBE, and a parallel solo and musical-theatre career.

Gary Beadle

Gary Beadle (born 1965, Bermondsey, London) is a British actor, brother of Rikki Beadle-Blair, known for Paul Trueman in EastEnders (2001–2004), Anna Scher training, hip-hop past, and recent roles in The Wheel of Time and The Gentlemen; distinct from reality star Gaz Beadle.

Gary Beck

Gary Beck is a Glasgow-born Scottish techno producer and DJ who emerged in 2007, releasing on Soma, Drumcode, and Cocoon, and founding his BEK Audio label in 2009.

Gary Becker

Gary Stanley Becker (1930–2014) was an American economist at the University of Chicago, awarded the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize for extending economic analysis to discrimination, crime, and the family.

Gary Bettman

Gary Bettman, first NHL commissioner since February 1, 1993, former NBA general counsel under David Stern; presided over three lockouts, the salary cap, expansion from 24 to 32 teams, and revenue growth to about $6.2 billion.

Gary Bokoch

Gary M. Bokoch (1954–2010) was an American pharmacologist who spent 25 years at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, showing how Rac2 lets neutrophils kill bacteria.

Gary Bond

Gary James Bond (1940-1995), English actor and singer; originated Joseph in the 1972 London Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, played Che in Evita and John Grant in Wake in Fright (1971).

Gary Boswell

Gary Boswell is an American politician and Republican member of the Kentucky Senate from the 8th district, representing Daviess, Hancock, and McLean counties from Owensboro, known for taxpayer protection legislation.

Gary Brooker

Gary Brooker (1945–2022), English singer, pianist and songwriter, founder and frontman of Procol Harum; co-wrote and sang "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (1967), MBE 2003, led the band across five decades.

Gary Burghoff

Gary Burghoff (born 1943, Bristol, Connecticut) is the American actor who played Radar O'Reilly in the 1970 MASH film, the M*A*S*H series (181 episodes), AfterMASH, and W*A*L*T*E*R; seven Emmy nominations, one 1977 win.

Gary Busey

Gary Busey (William Gary Busey, born 1944, Goose Creek, Texas), American actor and musician, Oscar-nominated Best Actor for The Buddy Holly Story (1978), known for Lethal Weapon, Point Break, a 1988 brain injury, and his 2025 probation.

Gary Byrne (Indiana politician)

Gary Byrne is an American politician and Republican member of the Indiana Senate, representing the 47th district since 2022, after serving on the North Harrison School Board and the Harrison County Council.

Gary C. Curhan

Gary C. Curhan is an American nephrologist and epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard whose large cohort studies established the dietary determinants of kidney stones and gout.

Gary Cahill

Gary Cahill (born 1985, Dronfield) is an English former centre-back who won eight major honours at Chelsea, including the 2012 Champions League and two Premier League titles, captained the club from 2017, and earned 61 England caps before retiring in November 2022.

Gary Carr (actor)

English actor Gary Carr (born 1986, London), also a dancer, singer, and musician; known for Fidel Best in Death in Paradise, Jack Ross in Downton Abbey, C.C. in The Deuce, and Buddy Bolden in Bolden.

Gary Carter

Gary Carter (1954-2012), "The Kid", Hall of Fame catcher for the Montreal Expos and New York Mets; 324 home runs, NL-record 2,056 games caught, 1986 World Series champion, inducted 2003 with an Expos cap.

Gary Carter (Louisiana politician)

Gary Carter Jr. is an American Democratic politician and attorney who serves in the Louisiana Senate from District 7, elected in 2021 after serving in the Louisiana House.

Gary Chamberlain

Gary Chamberlain (1948–2020) was an American econometrician and Harvard's Louis Berkman Professor of Economics, known for foundational work on panel data econometrics and semiparametric estimation.

Gary Chapman

Gary Arthur Chapman (1937-1978), Australian swimmer; Melbourne 1956 Olympic 100 m freestyle bronze in Australia's first medal clean sweep, four Commonwealth Games golds, 4x100 m freestyle relay world record 3:46.3.