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Paul Gallen
Paul Gallen (born 1981), nicknamed Gal, Australian rugby league lock who played 348 games for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (2001-2019), captained their 2016 maiden premiership, led NSW to the 2014 Origin win, won 29 of 32 Kangaroos Tests, then boxed and joined the Sharks board.
Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico (1897–1976), American sportswriter turned novelist, author of The Snow Goose and The Poseidon Adventure, the Mrs Harris books, and the Dempsey sparring story; died in Monaco.
Paul Gambaccini
Paul Gambaccini, "The Great Gambo" and "Professor of Pop", is an American-born British broadcaster born in the Bronx in 1949, a BBC Radio 1 presenter from 1973, Guinness Hit Singles co-author, Yewtree arrestee cleared in 2014, and 2025 Alzheimer's diagnosis announced 2026.
Paul Garabedian
Paul Garabedian (1927–2010) was an American mathematician and numerical analyst at NYU's Courant Institute, known for shockless transonic airfoil design and stellarator computations for fusion.
Paul Garrity
Paul A. Garrity is a biology professor at Brandeis University who studies the molecular sensors and neural circuits insects use to detect temperature, humidity, and chemicals.
Paul Gascoigne
Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne, born 1967 in Gateshead, English midfielder for Newcastle, Tottenham, Lazio, Rangers, Middlesbrough, Everton, and Burnley; 57 England caps, 10 goals, Italia 90 tears, Euro 96 goal against Scotland, later alcoholism.
Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin (Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and printmaker who abandoned a Paris stockbroker career, pioneered Synthetism with bold non-naturalistic color, and spent his final years in Tahiti and the Marquesas.
Paul Geheeb
Paul Geheeb (1870–1961) was a German reform pedagogue, a key figure of the Landerziehungsheim movement, who founded the Odenwaldschule in 1910 and the Ecole d'Humanité in Switzerland in 1934.
Paul Geidel
Paul Geidel (1894-1987) was an American bellboy convicted of second-degree murder in 1911 for killing broker William H. Jackson in New York's Hotel Iroquois; he served 68 years and 245 days, the longest US sentence ending in release, freed from Fishkill in 1980.
Paul Genevay
Paul Genevay (1939-2022), French sprinter from La Côte-Saint-André, won 4x100 m relay bronze at Tokyo 1964 in 39.3 with Laidebeur, Piquemal, and Delecour; 34 France caps, 1959 Mediterranean Games double gold.
Paul George
Paul George, born 1990 in Palmdale, California, is an NBA small forward from Fresno State, drafted 10th in 2010; nine-time All-Star, 2018-19 steals leader, known for the 2014 leg injury, Clippers years, and 2024 Sixers max deal.
Paul Gerhardt
Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676) was a German Lutheran pastor and hymn writer, commonly ranked after Martin Luther as the greatest hymnwriter of the Lutheran tradition, whose hymns remain in hymnals today.
Paul Ghaffari
Paul Ghaffari is an investor who co-founded FrontPoint Partners, a multi-strategy hedge fund firm sold to Morgan Stanley in 2006, and later ran Vulcan Capital and founded Pursuit Funds.
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti (born 1967, New Haven) is an American actor known for American Splendor, Sideways, The Holdovers, John Adams, and Billions; Emmy winner, three Golden Globes, four SAG Awards, two Oscar nominations.
Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert (born 1966, Carbondale, Illinois) is the American shred guitarist of Racer X and Mr. Big, whose "To Be With You" hit Number One; known for alternate picking, string skipping, and drill technique, with solo albums including WROC.
Paul Gilbert (actor)
Paul Gilbert (1918-1976), born Ed McMahon, American film and TV actor, comedian and singer; vaudeville and trapeze background; adoptive father of Melissa and Jonathan Gilbert of Little House on the Prairie.
Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy, born in 1956, is a British scholar of the Black diaspora whose book The Black Atlantic (1993) transformed the study of race and culture; he won the 2019 Holberg Prize.
Paul Glansdorff
Paul Gustave Glansdorff (1904–1999) was a Belgian thermodynamicist and university teacher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who, with Ilya Prigogine, discovered the 1954 general evolution criterion for non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Paul Glasziou
Paul P. Glasziou is an Australian general practitioner and evidence-based medicine researcher, Emeritus Professor at Bond University who directed its Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare from 2010 to 2024.
Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason (1939-2006), American character actor of Trading Places, The Breakfast Club, and Die Hard; trained with Strasberg, died of mesothelioma; distinct from Jackie Gleason and Paul Gleeson.
Paul Goldhaber
Paul Goldhaber (1924–2008) was an American periodontist and bone biologist, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1968 to 1990, known for his bone resorption research.
Paul Golding
Paul Golding is a British far-right activist who co-founded and leads Britain First, and previously served as an official and councillor in the British National Party.
Paul Goldschmidt
Paul Goldschmidt (born 1987), nicknamed Goldy, American MLB first baseman for the Yankees; formerly Diamondbacks (2011-18) and Cardinals (2019-24); 2022 NL MVP, seven-time All-Star, four Gold Gloves, five Silver Sluggers.
Paul Goldsmith (New Zealand politician)
Paul Goldsmith is a New Zealand National Party politician and list MP since 2011. Since 2023, he holds multiple portfolios, such as Minister of Justice.
Paul Gonzales, Jr.
Paul Gonzales, Jr. (Paul Garza Gonzales, Jr.), American boxer born 1964 in East Los Angeles; won 1984 Olympic light-flyweight gold and the Val Barker Trophy, boxed professionally 1985-1991, and was sentenced in 2021 for lewd conduct with minors.
Paul Goodison
Paul Goodison (born 1977), British Laser sailor, 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medalist, 2009 Laser World Champion, five-time European champion, and three-time Moth World Champion (2016-2018), later SailGP helm.
Paul Gordan
Paul Albert Gordan was a German mathematician, known as the king of invariant theory, who proved the finiteness theorem for binary forms in 1868 and co-created the Clebsch–Gordan coefficients.
Paul Gorton
Paul Gorton (born 1987) is a British business manager and TV personality, an original Traitor on The Traitors UK series 2 (2024). Banished 18 January 2024 after Harry Clark turned on him; known for his exit bow and later podcast and columnist work.
Paul Gosar
Paul A. Gosar (born 1958), also Paul Gosar D.D.S., Republican U.S. Representative from Arizona since 2011, now AZ-9; former Flagstaff dentist censured by the House in 2021 over a manipulated video.
Paul Gottfried
Paul Edward Gottfried, American political theorist, Yale doctoral student under Herbert Marcuse, Elizabethtown College Raffensperger Professor Emeritus, editor-in-chief of Chronicles, and coiner and leading theorist of paleoconservatism, critic of neoconservatism and the therapeutic managerial state.