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Gauls
The Gauls were the Celtic-speaking peoples of Gaul (Latin Galli), from the Pyrenees to the Rhine, organized in tribes and oppida, conquered by Caesar 58–51 BCE, later forming Gallo-Roman culture.
Gaultheria
Gaultheria is a genus of heath-family shrubs and subshrubs, named by Linnaeus in 1753, whose berry-like fruits and leaves yield wintergreen oil; it includes wintergreen and salal.
Gaultheria shallon
Gaultheria shallon, salal or shallon, an evergreen Ericaceae shrub native from Alaska to California, forming rhizomatous thickets with urn-shaped flowers and edible purple pseudoberries used for food and floral greenery.
Gaumata
Gaumata (گئومات) is the Magian who, per Darius I, seized the Persian throne in 522 BC by claiming to be Bardiya, Cyrus the Great's son.
Gaunless Bridge
Gaunless Bridge was an iron railway bridge over the River Gaunless in County Durham, built 1823–1825 for the Stockton & Darlington Railway to George Stephenson's design.
Gaunt's Ghosts
Gaunt's Ghosts is Dan Abnett's Black Library military science fiction series (1999-2019, 15 numbered novels) following Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only regiment in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, Warhammer 40,000's Sharpe-like soldier's-eye saga.
Gauntlet
Gauntlet is a 2001 two-player abstract board game by Phil Leduc in which a runner breaks through blockers; also the name of a 1998 Miranda wargame, a classic arcade game, and a card game.
Gauntlet (1985 video game)
Gauntlet (1985) is Atari Games' four-player cooperative dungeon-crawl arcade game by Ed Logg, inspired by Dandy, with health-drain mechanics, a TMS5220C narrator voice, 7,848 U.S. cabinets sold, and a franchise through the 2014 reboot.
Gauntlet (glove)
Gauntlet (glove): a glove with a long cuff protecting wrist and forearm, from Old French gantelet; also the steel-plated medieval armored glove whose throwing down signaled a challenge.
Gaur
Gaur (Bos gaurus, Indian bison, seladang), largest living wild bovine, native to South and Southeast Asia; IUCN Vulnerable since 1986, CITES Appendix I, about 85% of the population in India; ancestor of domestic mithun.
Gaur Govinda Ray
Gaur Govinda Ray (গৌর গোবিন্দ রায়), also Gourgovinda Rai Upadhyay, was a Bengali Brahmo missionary and scholar of Hinduism, one of Keshab Chandra Sen's four ordained adhyapaks.
Gaur Kishore Ghosh
Gaur Kishore Ghosh (গৌরকিশোর ঘোষ) was a Bengali writer and journalist from West Bengal, India, known for satirical columns under the pen name Rupadarshi and for resisting press censorship during the 1975–1977 Emergency.
Gauranga Das (गौरंग दास)
Gauranga Das is an Indian Gaudiya Vaishnava monk of ISKCON, an IIT Bombay graduate who became a monk in 1993 and directs Govardhan Ecovillage near Mumbai.
Gaurav Ahuja
Gaurav Ahuja is a senior partner at ChrysCapital, the Mumbai private equity firm, where he leads fundraising and raised the record $2.2 billion Fund X in 2025.
Gaurav Arora
Gaurav Arora, Indian actor and former supermodel from Mungaoli, Madhya Pradesh; Bollywood debut in Vikram Bhatt's Love Games (2016), then Raaz Reboot, Broken But Beautiful, Aadha Ishq, and Tanaav 2 villain role; distinct from Splitsvilla's Gauri Arora.
Gaurav Bahl
Gaurav Bahl is an experimental physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a 2022 Optica Fellow who demonstrated the first quantized quadrupole topological insulator.
Gaurav Biswas
Gaurav Biswas is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive of TruKKer, a digital freight platform often described as an "Uber for trucks," founded in 2016.
Gaurav Chopra (गौरव चोपड़ा)
Gaurav Chopra (गौरव चोपड़ा), born 1979, is an Indian television and film actor best known as Raghuvendra Pratap Rathore in Uttaran, a French journalist in Blood Diamond, the Hindi voice of Thor, a Bigg Boss 10 contestant, and roles in Rana Naidu, Gadar 2, and Aghori.
Gaurav Garg
Gaurav Garg is a venture capital investor and cofounder of Wing Venture Capital, founded in 2013, known for early-stage investments in FireEye, RingCentral, and Jasper Technologies.
Gaurav Gautam (गौरव गौतम)
Gaurav Gautam (गौरव गौतम), BJP MLA from Palwal, Haryana, and Minister of State (independent charge) for Sports and Youth Empowerment in the Nayab Singh Saini government since October 2024; distinct from the Major General of the same name.
Gaurav Gogoi (গৌৰৱ গগৈ)
Gaurav Gogoi (গৌৰৱ গগৈ), Assam Congress president since June 2025 and Lok Sabha MP from Jorhat, son of Tarun Gogoi; three-term MP, Deputy Leader of Opposition, Congress face in the 2026 Assam polls.
Gaurav Gupta
Gaurav Gupta, Indian couturier and artist, co-founded Gaurav Gupta Couture with brother Saurabh Gupta in 2005; known for sculptural sari-gowns, Paris Haute Couture Week debut in January 2023 as the second Indian designer, and 'Across the Flame' SS25 collection.
Gaurav Munjal
Gaurav Munjal (गौरव मुंजाल) is an Indian technology entrepreneur who cofounded the ed-tech company Unacademy in 2015 and led it through its 2026 sale to upGrad.
Gaurav Tiwari (गौरव तिवारी)
Gaurav Tiwari (गौरव तिवारी), 1984–2016, Indian paranormal investigator who founded the Indian Paranormal Society in 2009, appeared on Bhoot Aaya and MTV Girls Night Out, and died in Delhi in July 2016, a death police ruled suicide.
Gaurav Yadav (गौरव यादव) (police officer)
Gaurav Yadav (गौरव यादव), 1992-batch Punjab cadre IPS officer born 1969, Punjab's DGP since July 2022 (officiating) and regular DGP from 9 October 2026; former intelligence wing chief and first Jalandhar police commissioner.
Gauravi Kumari
Gauravi Kumari (born 1999), Jaipur royal, daughter of Rajasthan Deputy CM Diya Kumari and sister of Maharaja Padmanabh Singh; PDKF General Secretary, PDKF Store co-founder, Jimmy Choo ambassador, Met Gala 2026 debutant.
Gauri Deshpande
Gauri Deshpande was an Indian writer and University of Pune professor, born in Pune into a family of reformers, who wrote poetry, fiction, essays, and translations in Marathi and English.
Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill is a Delhi-based Indian photographer, born in Chandigarh in 1970, known for collaborative series such as Notes from the Desert and for winning the 2023 Prix Pictet.
Gauri Khan
Gauri Khan (born Gauri Chhibber, 1970, New Delhi) is an Indian film producer and interior designer, co-owner of Red Chillies Entertainment and Kolkata Knight Riders, founder of Gauri Khan Designs, and producer of Hindi films including Om Shanti Om, Chennai Express, Jawan, and Dunki.
Gauri Lakshmi Bayi
Gauri Lakshmi Bayi (ഗൗരി ലക്ഷ്മി ബായി), formally Ayilyam Thirunal Gauri Lakshmi Bayi, was Maharani of the princely state of Travancore in southern India, ruling from 1810.