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Gary Peters

Gary Peters (born 1958) is the Democratic U.S. senator from Michigan since 2015, former DSCC chair and Homeland Security Committee chair, who announced in January 2025 he will retire in 2026.

Gary Pettis

Gary Pettis (born 1958, Oakland) is a former MLB center fielder and current coach; five AL Gold Gloves, 354 steals, 1986 ALCS with Angels, later Astros third-base coach with two World Series rings, now Giants third-base coach.

Gary Philpott

Gary Philpott (born 11 June 1940) is a New Zealand 800m runner, lead-off leg of the 1961 world 4x1 mile record team with Snell, Halberg, and Magee, and a Perth 1962 Commonwealth Games competitor.

Gary Plauché

Gary Plauché, Baton Rouge father who in 1984 shot and killed Jeffrey Doucet, his son Jody's kidnapper and abuser, on live TV; he pleaded no contest to manslaughter and got a suspended sentence.

Gary Player

Gary Player (born 11 January 1935, Johannesburg), the "Black Knight," South African golfer; nine majors, career Grand Slam, 165 wins on six continents, World Golf Hall of Fame 1974, Big Three with Palmer and Nicklaus.

Gary Pretlow

J. Gary Pretlow is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the 89th district, including Mount Vernon and part of Yonkers, since 1992.

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, American pop rock group formed 1967 in San Diego, named for Union Gap, Washington. Hits: Young Girl (US No. 2, UK No. 1), Woman, Woman, Lady Willpower; six gold records in 1968; disbanded 1971.

Gary R. Brown

Gary R. Brown, also known as Gary Richard Brown, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2019.

Gary R. Lewin

Gary R. Lewin is a British-Irish neuroscientist who leads a touch and pain research lab at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and won the 2019 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine.

Gary Ray Bowles

Gary Ray Bowles (1962–2019), the "I-95 killer," was an American serial killer who murdered six older gay men across Florida, Georgia, and Maryland in 1994, reached the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, and was executed in Florida on August 22, 2019.

Gary Rhodes

Gary Rhodes (1960-2019), English chef, restaurateur and TV presenter who led the 1990s revival of British cuisine, earning six Michelin stars, hosting Rhodes Around Britain, and receiving an OBE in 2006.

Gary Richrath

Gary Richrath (1949–2015), American guitarist and songwriter, lead guitarist of REO Speedwagon from late 1970 to 1989; wrote "Ridin' the Storm Out" and "Take It on the Run", played on Hi Infidelity (10 million US copies), then a solo career.

Gary Ridgway

Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, murdered women in the Seattle area from 1982; caught by 2001 DNA matching his 1987 saliva sample, he pleaded guilty to 48 murders in 2003 and a 49th in 2011, serving life without parole in Walla Walla.

Gary Rieschel

Gary Rieschel is an American venture capitalist and Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, which he launched in Shanghai in 2005 and which backed Xiaomi and Bilibili.

Gary Robert Fleisher

Gary Robert Fleisher (born 1951) is an American pediatric emergency medicine physician who served as Physician-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital and helped found the field academically.

Gary Robertson

Gary David Robertson (born 1950, Oamaru, New Zealand) is a rower who won gold in the men's eight at the 1972 Munich Olympics; not the cricketer Gary Keith Robertson.

Gary Ross

Gary Ross (born 1956, Los Angeles) is an American screenwriter, director and producer, son of writer Arthur A. Ross; Oscar-nominated for Big, Dave, Seabiscuit, and director of Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games, Free State of Jones, and Ocean's Eight.

Gary Rossington

Gary Rossington (1951–2023), founding guitarist and last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd; co-wrote "Sweet Home Alabama," played slide on "Free Bird," survived the 1977 plane crash, led the band until his death.

Gary Rowett

Gary Rowett (born 1974), English football manager and former defender; managed Burton Albion, Birmingham City, Derby County, Stoke City, Millwall, Oxford United, and Leicester City, being relegated with Leicester in 2026.

Gary Rudnick

Gary Rudnick is a pharmacologist and Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine, known for work on the serotonin transporter, the target of antidepressants and MDMA.

Gary Russell Jr.

Gary Russell Jr. is an American professional boxer who held the WBC featherweight title from 2015 to 2022, the longest reigning male world champion of his time.

Gary Ruvkun

Gary Ruvkun is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School who won half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA.

Gary S. Calabrese

Gary S. Calabrese is an American chemist elected to the National Academy of Engineering for advanced electronic materials for semiconductor manufacture, and a former Corning senior vice president of Global Research.

Gary S. Firestein

Gary S. Firestein is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist at UC San Diego, chief of rheumatology from 1998 to 2010, whose rheumatoid arthritis research helped establish anti-TNF therapies.

Gary S. Grest

Gary S. Grest is a computational physicist at Sandia National Laboratories whose molecular dynamics simulations of polymers, colloids, and granular media contributed to the bead-spring model, a standard in polymer simulation.

Gary S. Kaplan

Gary S. Kaplan is an American physician-executive who was chairman and CEO of Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle from 2000 to 2020, known for the Virginia Mason Production System adapted from Toyota's methods.

Gary S. Katzmann

Gary S. Katzmann (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2016, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Gary S. Mintz

Gary S. Mintz (Gary Mintz) is an American interventional cardiologist who directed the Coronary Ultrasound Program at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York from 1991.

Gary S. Stein

Gary S. Stein is an American cell and cancer biologist, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Vermont, known for research on Runx2 and mitotic gene bookmarking.

Gary Sánchez

Gary Sánchez, Dominican catcher born 1992, Yankees star 2015-2021 with record home-run power (33 HR 2017, 34 HR 2019), two-time All-Star; later Twins, Mets, Padres, Brewers, Orioles.