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Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé, Argentine-born French filmmaker, director of I Stand Alone, Irreversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, and Vortex; key figure of the New French Extremity known for sensory, transgressive cinema.
Gaspar Núñez de Arce
Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1832–1903) was a Spanish poet, playwright, journalist, and public official, acclaimed in his lifetime for Gritos del combate (1875) and the verse drama El haz de leña.
Gáspár Orbán
Gáspár Orbán, son of Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, is a former footballer who played for Puskás Akadémia FC and appeared in the Hungarian top division after its 2013 promotion; later linked by Direkt36 and Le Monde to a Chad military project.
Gaspar Pedro González
Gaspar Pedro González, born 1945, is a Guatemalan Q'anjob'al Maya writer best known for La otra cara (1992), often called the first novel written in a Mayan language.
Gaspar Yanga
Gaspar Yanga, also recorded as Ñanga, was a maroon leader near Veracruz, New Spain, who negotiated peace after a Spanish campaign in 1609, leading to the free town of San Lorenzo de los Negros.
Gaspara Stampa
Gaspara Stampa (1523 or 1525 – 1554) was an Italian Renaissance poet of Padua and Venice whose posthumous 1554 collection Rime made her a leading woman poet.
Gaspard de la nuit
Gaspard de la nuit, also the 1842 Aloysius Bertrand prose-poem collection, is Maurice Ravel's 1908 three-movement piano suite (Ondine, Le gibet, Scarbo), premiered by Ricardo Viñes in 1909 and famed for extreme difficulty, with Scarbo written to surpass Balakirev's Islamey.
Gaspard Mermillod
Gaspard Mermillod (1824–1892) was a Swiss Catholic bishop and cardinal, apostolic vicar of Geneva from 1873 and later Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva, expelled from Switzerland in 1873 and governing in exile from Ferney, France.
Gaspard Ulliel
Gaspard Thomas Ulliel (1984–2022), French actor, two-time César winner (Un long dimanche de fiançailles, Juste la fin du monde), Yves Saint Laurent in Saint Laurent, face of Bleu de Chanel, died after a ski accident before Moon Knight aired.
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792–1843) was a French mathematician and engineer best remembered for the Coriolis force and for coining "work" and describing kinetic energy in mechanics.
Gasparilla Pirate Festival
Gasparilla Pirate Festival, Tampa's annual pirate invasion since 1904 hosted by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, named for the legendary and likely fictional pirate José Gaspar; flotilla, 4.5-mile parade, beads.
Gasparo Contarini
Gasparo Contarini (1483–1542) was a Venetian patrician, diplomat, and cardinal who pushed church reform and drafted the justification article at the Colloquy of Regensburg in 1541.
Gaspé Peninsula
The Gaspé Peninsula (French: Gaspésie) is a peninsula in eastern Quebec, Canada, bounded by the St. Lawrence estuary and Chaleur Bay, where Jacques Cartier claimed land for France in 1534.
Gaspi
Gaspi, real name Gaspar Prim Díaz (2002–2026), Argentine street-interview comedian on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram; known for "Buenass", antiperiodista persona, Coscu Army Award, La Velada V, Blender series.
GasPort FSRU
GasPort FSRU is an LNG import terminal at Port Qasim, Pakistan, Pakistan's second, using the floating storage and regasification unit BW Integrity and operating since 2017.
Gasr Banat
Gasr Banat (Qasr Banat, Qasr Isawi), Libya: a three-storey Roman tower mausoleum near Lepcis Magna and a mid-third-century fortified centenarium farm of the Limes Tripolitanus on the Wadi Nefud.
Gasr Doga Mausoleum
The Gasr Doga Mausoleum (قصر دوغه) is a grand funerary monument in the Tarhuna Gebel of Tripolitania, Libya, about 60 km southwest of Lepcis Magna, built in the early first century AD.
Gasr el-Abid
Gasr el-Abid (Qasr al-'Abd, قصر العبد) is a ruin in Al Butnan, Libya, near Bardia; a Roman-period site on Barrington Atlas map 73 and a World War II landmark on the Trigh Capuzzo.
Gasr Silu
Gasr Silu (Qaşr Sīlū) is an ancient ruin in Al Jabal al Akhdar, Cyrenaica, Libya, documented by the British School at Rome in 1969, with a Byzantine fort, two Byzantine churches, and productive installations.
Gassco
Gassco is a Norwegian state-owned company, founded in 2001, that operates the roughly 8,800-kilometer pipeline system carrying natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf to terminals in Europe.
Gassendi (crater)
Gassendi is a large, lava-flooded impact crater on the Moon, 110 km wide, on the northern edge of Mare Humorum, and a final candidate landing site for Apollo 17.
Gasserian ganglion block
A Gasserian ganglion block is a percutaneous injection of anesthetic or neurolytic agents into the trigeminal ganglion through the foramen ovale, most often to relieve trigeminal neuralgia.
Gassi Touil Oil and Gas Field
Gassi Touil is a producing onshore oil and gas field in eastern Algeria's Berkine sub-basin, discovered in 1961 and operated by the Algerian state company Sonatrach.
Gassled
Gassled is a Norwegian joint venture, established in 2003, that owns most of the pipelines and onshore plants carrying natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf to Europe.
Gassulawiya
Gassulawiya was a wife of the Hittite king Mursili II in the late 14th century BC and mother of the later kings Muwatalli II and Hattusili III.
Gasteig
Gasteig, Munich cultural and education centre opened 10 November 1985 in Haidhausen; houses Munich Philharmonic, city library, adult education centre, and music university; under renovation since 2021 from interim Gasteig HP8.
Gasteroid Amanita segregates (Torrendia and Amarrendia)
Gasteroid Amanita segregates, formerly the genera Torrendia and Amarrendia, are enclosed-spored fungi from the Mediterranean and Australia that DNA studies showed nest within Amanita, which absorbed them in 2010.
Gasteroid fungi
Gasteroid fungi, historically called Gastromycetes, are basidiomycete fungi, including puffballs, earthstars, stinkhorns, and false truffles, that produce spores internally; molecular studies show the group is polyphyletic, not a natural lineage.
Gasterosteus aculeatus
Gasterosteus aculeatus, the three-spined stickleback, is a small ray-finned fish living in marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats across the temperate Northern Hemisphere, and a model for studying parallel evolution.
Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Gaston is the vain hunter antagonist Disney created for its 1991 animated Beauty and the Beast, voiced by Richard White and animated by Andreas Deja. Not in the original fairy tale; played by Luke Evans in the 2017 live-action remake, he embodies hypermasculinity in gender scholarship and headlines a planned solo film.