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Gary Marcus

Gary F. Marcus is a cognitive scientist and professor emeritus at New York University known for infant rule-learning experiments and, since 2018, prominent criticism of deep learning.

Gary McAllister

Gary McAllister (born 1964, Motherwell) is a Scottish former midfielder and manager; clubs Motherwell, Leicester, Leeds (1992 champions), Coventry, Liverpool (2001 treble); 57 Scotland caps; MBE.

Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon, Scottish hacker known as Solo, accessed 97 US military and NASA computers from London in 2001-2002; his decade-long UK extradition fight ended in 2012 when Theresa May blocked removal on suicide-risk human rights grounds.

Gary Medel

Gary Medel (Gary Alexis Medel Soto), nicknamed El Pitbull, Chilean defensive midfielder and centre-back born 1987; 161 caps, Copa América winner 2015 and 2016; clubs include Sevilla, Cardiff, Inter, Bologna; now at Universidad Católica.

Gary Mehigan

Gary Mehigan is an English-born Australian chef and TV presenter, original MasterChef Australia judge 2009-2019 with Calombaris and Preston, former Fenix and Maribyrnong Boathouse owner, now host of Good Food Everyday and a frequent visitor to India.

Gary Merrill

Gary Fred Merrill (1915–1990) was an American film and television actor with more than 40 films, best known for All About Eve (1950) and his ten-year marriage to Bette Davis.

Gary Miller (theoretical computer scientist)

Gary Miller is an American theoretical computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, creator of the Miller primality test and the Miller–Rabin test used for RSA encryption keys.

Gary Moore

Gary Moore (1952-2011), Northern Irish blues-rock guitarist, born Robert William Gary Moore in Belfast; Thin Lizzy and Skid Row veteran, hit 'Parisienne Walkways', 1990's Still Got the Blues, Peter Green's 1959 Les Paul; distinct from other musicians named Gary Moore.

Gary Morton

Gary Morton (Morton Goldaper), American stand-up comedian and television producer, second husband of Lucille Ball from 1961; warm-up comic and executive producer of The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, and Life with Lucy; died 1999. Distinct from the British union official and other namesakes.

Gary N. Calkins

Gary Nathan Calkins (1869–1943) was an American protozoologist at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1919, known for his Paramecium aging experiments.

Gary Neville

Gary Neville, born 1975 in Bury, is an English former footballer who spent his whole career as Manchester United's right-back, winning eight Premier League titles and the 1999 Treble.

Gary North (economist)

Gary North (1942–2022), born Gary Kilgore North, was an American economist and Christian Reconstructionist who argued that Austrian free-market economics was grounded in the Bible.

Gary Numan

Gary Numan (Gary Anthony James Webb, born 1958), English synthpop and electronic pioneer; Tubeway Army's 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' topped UK charts in 1979; later industrial revival with Sacrifice, Savage, Intruder.

Gary O'Donoghue

Gary O'Donoghue (born London, 1968) is BBC News' Chief North America Correspondent and the BBC's first disabled foreign correspondent, blind from age eight, covering US politics since 2014 and winning an RTS award for his 2024 Trump assassination attempt reporting.

Gary O'Neil

Gary O'Neil (Gary Paul O'Neil, born 1983) is an English football manager and former midfielder, Ipswich Town manager since June 2026, known for keeping Bournemouth and Wolves in the Premier League.

Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman, English character actor known for Sid and Nancy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Darkest Hour (Oscar winner), and Jackson Lamb in Slow Horses; knighted, born in New Cross, London.

Gary Oldman filmography

Gary Oldman filmography: screen roles of the English actor born 1958 in New Cross, London, from Sid Vicious (1986) and Nil by Mouth (1997, also directed) to the Oscar-winning Darkest Hour (2017) and Slow Horses (2022– ).

Gary Olsen

Gary Olsen (1957-2000), English actor, played PC Dave Litten in The Bill and Ben Porter in 2point4 Children (1991-1999), starred in Up 'n' Under and Macbeth at the Liverpool Everyman, and died of cancer in Australia.

Gary Owen (comedian)

Gary Owen (born 1974, Cincinnati) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, first white host of BET's ComicView, known for Think Like a Man, Ride Along, Daddy Day Care, and his No Hard Feelings theater tour.

Gary Owens

Gary Owens (Gary Bernard Altman, 1934–2015), American radio announcer, DJ and voice actor; Laugh-In announcer famous for 'beautiful downtown Burbank,' Space Ghost's voice, 20 years at KMPC.

Gary P. Wiederrecht

Gary P. Wiederrecht is an American nanoscientist at Argonne National Laboratory, director of its Center for Nanoscale Materials, who won a 1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Gary P. Wormser

Gary P. Wormser is an American infectious diseases physician and researcher at New York Medical College known for the 2001 single-dose doxycycline Lyme prophylaxis trial and IDSA treatment guidelines.

Gary P. Zank

Gary P. Zank is an American space physicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who models the solar wind and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Gary Pallister

Gary Pallister (born 1965, Ramsgate), English centre-back; 437 games and 15 goals for Manchester United 1989-98, four Premier League titles, three FA Cups, 22 England caps, record £2.3m 1989 transfer.

Gary Palmer

Gary J. Palmer is an American Republican politician who has represented Alabama's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2015 and chaired the House Republican Policy Committee from 2019 to 2025.

Gary Parker

Gary Parker is a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, who studies how rivers and deep-sea currents reshape landscapes through sediment transport.

Gary Patterson

Gary Patterson, American college football coach, TCU Horned Frogs head coach 2000-21, all-time wins leader at 181-79, architect of the 4-2-5 defense, 2010 Rose Bowl winner, 2014 Big 12 champion, 2026 College Football Hall of Fame first-ballot inductee.

Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen (1939-2021), American young-adult author of over 200 books including Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room; three Newbery Honors, 1997 Margaret A. Edwards Award, Iditarod racer, 35 million copies sold.

Gary Payton

Gary Payton, "The Glove," Hall of Fame point guard (1990 draft, 2nd pick) for the Seattle SuperSonics; 1996 Defensive Player of the Year, 9x All-Defensive First Team, 2006 NBA champion with Miami.

Gary Payton II

Gary Payton II (born 1992), son of Hall of Famer Gary Payton, is an undrafted 6'2" NBA guard from Oregon State; 2022 NBA champion and defensive specialist with the Golden State Warriors.