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John G. Sclater
John G. Sclater (1940–2024) was a Scottish-born American marine geophysicist whose work on seafloor heat flow and subsidence gave plate tectonics a quantitative foundation; he died in San Diego at 84.
John G. Speer
John G. Speer is an American steel metallurgist, professor at the Colorado School of Mines, who invented quenching and partitioning steel processing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
John G. Thompson
John G. Thompson is an American mathematician known for the odd-order theorem and the classification of finite simple groups, who won the Fields Medal and the Abel Prize.
John G. Torrey
John G. Torrey (1921–1993) was an American plant biologist, a Harvard professor for 30 years and National Academy member, known for root development and Frankia research.
John G. Trump
John G. Trump (John George Trump, 1907–1985) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who developed megavolt X-ray generators for cancer therapy and evaluated Tesla's papers in 1943.
John G. Truxal
John G. Truxal (1924–2007) was an American control theorist and systems engineer who led electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic and served as Dean of Engineering at Stony Brook.
John G. Webb
John G. Webb is a Canadian interventional cardiologist at the University of British Columbia and St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, who pioneered transcatheter aortic valve implantation and trained valve groups in over 25 countries.
John G. Ziegler
John G. Ziegler (c. 1909–1997) was an American engineer who, with mathematician Nathaniel B. Nichols, created the Ziegler–Nichols method, the first systematic procedure for tuning PID controllers.
John G.F. Cleland
John G.F. Cleland, known as John Cleland, is a British cardiologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow, known for leading the CARE-HF trial of cardiac resynchronization therapy.
John Gaddum
John Henry Gaddum (1900–1965) was a British pharmacologist who made pharmacology quantitative: he founded probit analysis, wrote the first equation for competitive drug antagonism, and co-discovered substance P with Ulf von Euler.
John Gagliardi
John Gagliardi (1926-2018), college football's all-time winningest coach with 489 wins over 64 seasons, mostly at Saint John's University (MN), famous for his unconventional "Winning With No's" methods: no tackling in practice, no whistles, no scholarships.
John Gallagher Jr.
John Gallagher Jr. (born 1984, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American actor and singer-songwriter, Tony winner for originating Moritz in Spring Awakening, later Johnny in American Idiot, Jim Harper on The Newsroom, and star of Short Term 12 and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
John Galliano
John Galliano, born John Charles Galliano in Gibraltar in 1960, is a British fashion designer who headed Christian Dior from 1996 to 2011 and Maison Margiela from 2014 to 2024.
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (1867-1933), English novelist and dramatist who first wrote as John Sinjohn; author of The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and the play Justice, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
John Galt
John Galt is the fictional engineer and strike leader at the center of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, inventor of a revolutionary motor, subject of the question "Who is John Galt?", and later a byword in American political culture.
John Gambino
John (Giovanni) Gambino, 1940-2017, Sicilian-born captain of the Gambino crime family's 'Cherry Hill Gambinos' faction, relative of Carlo Gambino, key Sicilian-American heroin trafficking link, arrested in Operation Iron Tower.
John Gamble Kirkwood
John Gamble Kirkwood (1907–1959) was an American theoretical chemist who helped found the statistical mechanics of liquids, known for Kirkwood–Buff solution theory and the BBGKY hierarchy.
John Garamendi
John Garamendi, full name John Raymond Garamendi, is an American Democratic politician representing California's 8th District in Congress since 2023, after serving as California Insurance Commissioner and Lieutenant Governor.
John Garang
John Garang de Mabior was a Sudanese politician who founded the SPLM/A and led the rebel movement in a 22-year war from 1983 to 2005 before becoming First Vice President of Sudan.
John Garcia (psychologist)
John Garcia (1917–2012) was an American psychologist who discovered conditioned taste aversion, the Garcia effect, showing that a single taste-illness pairing creates lasting food avoidance.
John Gardner (British writer)
John Edmund Gardner (1926–2007), British thriller writer, author of over 50 novels, sixteen James Bond continuation novels from Licence Renewed (1981), the Boysie Oakes spoofs, and Moriarty and Herbie Kruger series; distinct from the American novelist John Gardner.
John Garfield
John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, 1913–1952), American film and stage actor, Warner Bros. star and pioneer of rebellious screen antiheroes; Oscar-nominated for Four Daughters, famed for The Postman Always Rings Twice, blacklisted after HUAC.
John Garnett (mathematician)
John Garnett (John Brady Garnett) is an American mathematician at UCLA known for harmonic analysis, a 1970 analytic capacity counterexample, and the Steele Prize-winning Bounded Analytic Functions.
John Gatenby Bolton
John Gatenby Bolton (1922–1993) was a radio astronomer who made the first identifications of radio sources with optical objects, and was the first Director of the Parkes Telescope in Australia.
John Gau (producer)
John Gau (John Glen Mackay Gau, 1940-2024) was a British television producer, BBC Panorama producer and head of current affairs, founder of John Gau Productions, Channel 4 director, and CBE.
John Gavin
John Gavin (1931–2018), born Juan Vincent Apablasa or John Anthony Golenor, American actor in Psycho, Spartacus, and Imitation of Life, SAG president 1971–73, and US Ambassador to Mexico 1981–86 under Reagan.
John Gay
John Gay (1685–1732) was an English poet and dramatist best known for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a record-breaking ballad opera satirizing Italian opera and Robert Walpole's government.
John Gay Alleyne
Sir John Gay Alleyne (1724–1801) was a Barbadian planter and politician, Speaker of the House of Assembly, who founded the Alleyne School and gave Mount Gay rum its name.
John Geddes (psychiatrist)
John Richard Geddes is a British psychiatrist at the University of Oxford whose research on mood disorders and clinical trial methods has influenced practice internationally.
John Geiger
John Francis Geiger (1873-1956), American rower for Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; won gold in the men's eights at the 1900 Paris Olympics in 6:07.8, beating Belgium by six seconds; distinct from John D. Geiger.