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John Grant Aunins
John Grant Aunins is an American biochemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, known for vaccine process development at Merck and microbiome therapeutics at Seres.
John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806), British officer and first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada 1791–1796; commanded the Queen's Rangers, founded York (Toronto), built Yonge and Dundas Streets, passed the 1793 Act Against Slavery.
John Gray (philosopher)
John Gray (born 1948) is an English political philosopher, emeritus professor of European thought at the LSE, author of Straw Dogs, Seven Types of Atheism, and The New Leviathans, known for post-liberalism and his critique of progress.
John Green
John Green (born 1977, Indianapolis) is the American #1 NYT bestselling author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, of nonfiction including Everything is Tuberculosis, and of the 2026 adult debut Hollywood, Ending; co-creator of Vlogbrothers and Crash Course, distinct from the cartoonist John Green.
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) was an American poet, editor, and abolitionist from Massachusetts, one of the Fireside Poets, whose long narrative poem Snow-Bound (1866) sold twenty thousand copies.
John Gregory Dunne
John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003), American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter, husband of Joan Didion; author of The Studio, True Confessions, and Monster, and co-writer of Panic in Needle Park.
John Gregson
John Gregson (Harold Thomas Gregson, 1919-1975), English actor of stage, film and television; star of Genevieve (1953), Ealing comedies, and Commander Gideon in Gideon's Way (1964-66).
John Greig
John Greig (born 1942, Edinburgh), the "Greatest Ever Ranger", one-club Rangers captain 1961-1978 with 755 appearances, 1972 Cup Winners' Cup winner, 44 Scotland caps, later manager 1978-1983 and honorary life president.
John Gretton, Jr.
John Gretton, Jr. (1867–1947), British yachtsman and Conservative MP, won two sailing golds aboard Scotia at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the only person to win an Olympic title while serving in Parliament; later 1st Baron Gretton.
John Greycrow
John Greycrow, formerly Scalphunter, is a Marvel Comics mutant mercenary created by Claremont, Romita Jr., and Dan Green; first appearing in Uncanny X-Men #210 (1986), he led the Marauders in the Mutant Massacre and later joined the Hellions and X-Men.
John Gribben
John Gribben is a British haemato-oncologist who holds the Gordon Hamilton Fairley Chair at Barts Cancer Institute, led the European Hematology Association from 2019 to 2021, and co-founded the diagnostics company Kinomica.
John Grieb
John William Grieb (1879–1939), American gymnast and track athlete of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde; won team gold and field sports all-around silver at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
John Griffin (hedge fund manager)
John Griffin is an American hedge fund manager who founded Blue Ridge Capital, a New York long/short equity fund, in 1996 and closed it in 2017.
John Griffiths (Welsh mathematician)
John Griffiths (1837–1916) was a Welsh mathematician from Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, known for work in analytic geometry, with Griffiths' Theorem and Griffiths Points named for him; he held posts at Jesus College, Oxford.
John Grigg
John Grigg (1924–2001), second Baron Altrincham, British historian and journalist who criticized the Queen in 1957, disclaimed his peerage in 1963, and wrote a four-volume Lloyd George biography.
John Grisham
John Grisham, formally John Ray Grisham Jr., is an American novelist and former Mississippi lawyer and legislator whose legal thrillers like The Firm have sold over 400 million copies.
John Groffen
John Groffen is a Dutch-born molecular hematologist known for identifying the fused bcr/c-abl gene and messenger RNA in chronic myelocytic leukemia, and is a professor at USC.
John Gronvall
John A. Gronvall is an American health policy scholar affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs, known for his analyses of the VA's partnership with American medical schools.
John Gropper
John Gropper (Johannes Gropper) was a German Catholic theologian of Cologne, author of the Enchiridion Christianae Institutionis and chief Catholic spokesman at the Colloquy of Regensburg.
John Guckenheimer
John Guckenheimer, born 1945, is an American mathematician and Cornell professor known for work on chaos, bifurcations, and the influential 1983 textbook with Philip Holmes.
John Guidetti
John Guidetti, Swedish centre-forward born 1992 in Solna, raised partly in Kenya; Manchester City academy product, 20-goal Feyenoord loan 2011-12, Celtic, Celta Vigo, Alaves, Hannover, AIK 2022-2025, Rinkeby Utd. FC from 2026; 29 Sweden caps, 3 goals.
John Gunter (Florida politician)
John Gunter is an American politician serving as Mayor of Cape Coral, Florida, appointed in 2021 and elected in 2022 after serving on the city council.
John Gustafson (computer scientist)
John L. Gustafson is an American computer scientist known for Gustafson's law of parallel speedup, winning the inaugural Gordon Bell Prize in 1988, and inventing the posit number format.
John Gwyn Jeffreys
John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885), Welsh solicitor-turned-conchologist, author of British Conchology (5 vols, 1862–69), scientific leader of the 1869 Porcupine deep-sea dredging expedition that disproved the Azoic theory; collection now at the Smithsonian.
John Gwynn
John Gwynn (1827–1917) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and Syriac scholar who edited the five New Testament books missing from the Peshitta and served as Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin.
John Gwynne (author)
John Gwynne (born 1968) is a British epic fantasy author of The Faithful and the Fallen, Of Blood and Bone, and the Norse-inspired Bloodsworn Saga; Malice won the 2012 David Gemmell Morningstar Award, and The Fury of the Gods was an instant New York Times bestseller.
John H. Alexander
John H. Alexander is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at Duke University, and Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, known for the ARISTOTLE and AUGUSTUS apixaban trials.
John H. Bankhead
John H. Bankhead, also known as John Hollis Bankhead, was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1920 who sponsored the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916.
John H. Beigel
John H. Beigel is a physician-scientist and Associate Director for Clinical Research at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, known for leading the government's pivotal Covid-19 treatment trials.
John H. Brumell
John H. Brumell is a Canadian cell biologist who studies how Salmonella and Listeria subvert host cells, leading a laboratory at SickKids in Toronto since 2002.