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Jorge Gascón
Jorge Gascón is a Spanish chemical engineer and catalysis researcher, a professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia known for work on zeolites and metal–organic frameworks.
Jorge González (wrestler)
Jorge González, El Gigante and Giant Gonzales, Argentine basketball player and wrestler, drafted 54th by Atlanta Hawks in 1988, tallest billed WWE Superstar at 8 ft, died 2010 aged 44.
Jorge González Camarena
Jorge González Camarena (1908–1980) was a Mexican painter, sculptor, and muralist of the second generation of Mexican muralism, known for a system of geometric harmonies.
Jorge Guillén
Jorge Guillén (1893–1984) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, alongside Lorca and Salinas, whose collected work, gathered as Aire nuestro, is organized in five series.
Jorge Gutierrez
Jorge Gutiérrez (Jorge Gutiérrez Espinosa), Cuban boxer born 1975 in Camagüey; won 2000 Sydney Olympic gold at middleweight, beating Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov 17-15; also 1999 Pan American Games champion.
Jorge Hank Rhon
Jorge Hank Rhon, Mexican businessman, engineer, and politician, owner of Grupo Caliente, mayor of Tijuana 2004-2007, thrice Baja California governor candidate, son of Carlos Hank González.
Jorge Hernandez
Jorge Hernández Padrón (Jorge Hernández), Cuban amateur boxer, 1976 Olympic light-flyweight gold medalist and 1974 inaugural world champion at 48 kg; also 1975 Pan American Games champion, later a Cuban national coach.
Jorge Humberto Figueroa Benítez
Jorge Humberto Figueroa Benítez, alias El Perris or El 27, was a Sinaloa Cartel Los Chapitos security leader and Los Ninis commander, indicted in SDNY in 2023 with a $1 million US reward, killed by the Mexican Army in Navolato on May 23, 2025.
Jorge Icaza
Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906–1978) was an Ecuadorian novelist and playwright whose Huasipungo (1934), attacking the exploitation of Indigenous people by landowners, became Ecuador's most recognized novel.
Jorge Isaacs
Jorge Isaacs (1837–1895) was a Colombian writer and politician, author of the Romantic novel María (1867), one of the most reprinted works of Spanish American literature.
Jorge J. Casal
Jorge José Casal is an Argentine plant biologist at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Instituto Leloir, known for showing that phytochrome B senses temperature in plants.
Jorge J. Rocca
Jorge J. Rocca is an Argentine-born laser physicist and University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, known for the first table-top soft X-ray laser and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Jorge J. Yunis
Jorge J. Yunis is a physician and geneticist, professor at the University of Minnesota, who developed high-resolution chromosome banding and tied chromosomal defects to leukemia prognosis.
Jorge Jesus
Jorge Jesus (Jorge Fernando Pinheiro de Jesus), born 1954, is a Portuguese football manager appointed Portugal head coach in July 2026 after title-winning spells at Benfica, Flamengo (2019 Libertadores), Al-Hilal, Fenerbahçe and Al-Nassr.
Jorge Juan
Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713–1773) was a Spanish naval officer, mathematician, and engineer who joined the geodesic expedition to Peru and rebuilt the Spanish Navy.
Jorge L. Alonso
Jorge L. Alonso, also known as Jorge Luis Alonso, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge in Illinois since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Jorge L. Ruas
Jorge L. Ruas is a Portuguese molecular and exercise physiologist, professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, known for work on PGC-1α proteins in skeletal muscle.
Jorge L. Sarmiento
Jorge L. Sarmiento, a Peruvian-born American ocean biogeochemist at Princeton University, helped found ocean biogeochemistry and establish the Southern Ocean's control over atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Jorge Labarga
Jorge Labarga, born 1952 in Havana, Cuba, is a Florida Supreme Court justice since 2009 (84th justice) and 56th Chief Justice of Florida 2014-2018, the first Cuban American to lead the state judicial branch.
Jorge Lacerda power station
Jorge Lacerda power station, also known as Complexo Termelétrico Jorge Lacerda, is a coal-fired power complex in Santa Catarina, Brazil, operating since 1965 with 740 MW.
Jorge Linares
Jorge Linares (Jorge Luis Linares Palencia, "El Niño de Oro"), Venezuelan boxer based in Japan, three-division world champion at featherweight, super featherweight, and lightweight; 47-9, 29 KOs; retired October 2023 after loss to Jack Catterall.
Jorge Lorenzo
Jorge Lorenzo (born 1987, Palma de Mallorca) is a Spanish five-time motorcycle world champion and MotoGP Legend, winning the premier class in 2010, 2012, and 2015 with Yamaha, later racing Ducati and Honda before retiring in 2019.
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine poet, story writer, essayist, and translator. Author of Ficciones, El Aleph, and El libro de arena; director of the Biblioteca Nacional 1955–1973; Cervantes Prize 1979; died in Geneva.
Jorge Macri
Jorge Macri, born 1965 in Tandil, is an Argentine PRO politician, cousin of Mauricio Macri, mayor (jefe de Gobierno) of Buenos Aires City since December 10, 2023, after serving as Vicente López intendente (2011-2021) and city Government Minister.
Jorge Manrique
Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) was a Castilian poet and soldier, author of the Coplas por la muerte de su padre, among the most famous Spanish poems.
Jorge Martín
Jorge Martín (Martinator, #89), Spanish MotoGP rider born 1998 in Madrid; 2018 Moto3 and 2024 MotoGP World Champion, first independent-team champion of the MotoGP era; rides Aprilia, joins Yamaha in 2027.
Jorge Mas
Jorge Mas is a Cuban-American billionaire businessman who co-founded and chairs the infrastructure company MasTec and is managing owner of Inter Miami CF, which signed Lionel Messi in 2023.
Jorge Masvidal
Jorge Masvidal, "Gamebred" (born 1984, Miami), American MMA welterweight; 35-17 record, fastest UFC KO (5 s vs Askren, 2019), first BMF champion, lost twice to Usman, later Gamebred FC promoter.
Jorge Mendes
Jorge Mendes (born 1966, Lisbon), Portuguese super-agent and founder of Gestifute (1996); represents Cristiano Ronaldo and José Mourinho, brokered Wolves' Fosun-era signings, and drew FIFA third-party-ownership scrutiny.
Jorge Messi
Jorge Messi, also known as Jorge Horacio Messi, was an Argentine former steel-factory supervisor who became Lionel Messi's agent, negotiating his contracts until his death in 2026.