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Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi, "Flash" (1967-2009), Italian boxer; Seoul 1988 Olympic featherweight gold medalist and two-division WBO world champion (lightweight 1992-94, light welterweight 1996-98); died in a car crash near Voghera.
Giovanni Pettenella
Giovanni Pettenella (Vanni), Italian track sprinter, 1964 Tokyo Olympic sprint gold and 1,000 m time trial silver; 1968 world sprint bronze and world trackstand record holder.
Giovanni Reyna
Giovanni Alejandro Reyna (born 2002), American attacking midfielder, son of Claudio Reyna and Danielle Egan; NYCFC academy, Borussia Dortmund, Nottingham Forest loan, Gladbach, Strasbourg; USMNT 2026 World Cup player.
Giovanni Scalzo
Giovanni Scalzo, Italian sabre fencer born 1959 in Messina; four Olympian (1980–1992) with 1 gold (1984 team), 1 silver (1980 team), 2 bronze (1988 individual and team), 1983 European champion.
Giovanni Scatturin
Giovanni Scatturin (1893-1951), Venetian Italian rower, coxed pair specialist; Olympic gold Antwerp 1920 and silver Paris 1924 with Ercole Olgeni, first Italian rowing gold, later emigrated to Argentina.
Giovanni Simeone
Giovanni Simeone (Cholito), Argentine striker born 1995 in Buenos Aires, son of Diego Simeone; River Plate, Genoa, Fiorentina, Cagliari, Verona, Napoli, now Torino; 5 Argentina caps.
Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni (born 17 March 1939, Cusano Milanino) is an Italian football manager and former Milan midfielder; won 22 trophies including six Juventus scudetti, the 1985 European Cup, and Inter's record 1989 title, and coached Italy and Ireland.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst
Giovanni van Bronckhorst (born 1975, Rotterdam), Dutch left-back and coach, 'Gio'. Champions League winner with Barcelona 2006; Feyenoord head coach 2015-2019 and again from June 2026; Rangers Europa League finalist 2022.
Gipf
Gipf (GIPF) is a 1997 two-player abstract strategy board game by Kris Burm, first of the GIPF Project series; players push pieces on a hexagonal board to form rows of four and capture, winning by exhausting the opponent's reserve.
Girlfight
Girlfight (2000) is Karyn Kusama's debut indie drama starring Michelle Rodriguez as Brooklyn teen boxer Diana Guzman; it won Sundance's Grand Jury and Directing awards and Cannes' Award of Youth.
Girls' Frontline (少女前线)
Girls' Frontline (少女前线, Dolls Frontline in Japan) is a free-to-play mobile strategy RPG by China's MICA Team, released 2016, English May 2018, featuring T-Doll androids based on real firearms in turn-based echelon combat.
Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium
Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (追放) is Sunborn/MICA Team's 3D turn-based tactical gacha RPG, sequel to Girls' Frontline, set 10 years later; XCOM-like cover combat, 0.6% Elite gacha, China launch December 2023, global December 2024.
Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia (Corsa Rosa), annual Italian Grand Tour stage race organized by La Gazzetta dello Sport since 1909; time-based general classification, pink leader's jersey since 1931; 2026 winner Jonas Vingegaard.
Giro di Lombardia
Giro di Lombardia, also called Il Lombardia or the Race of the Falling Leaves, is an Italian autumn one-day cycling race, one of the five Monuments, first held in 1905, run between Bergamo and Como, and known for the Madonna del Ghisallo climb.
Girona FC
Girona FC, or Girona Futbol Club, is a Spanish professional football club based in Girona, Catalonia, founded in 1930 and playing at the Estadi Municipal de Montilivi.
Gisela Grass
Gisela Schöbel-Grass (Gisela Graß), German swimmer born 18 June 1926 in Leipzig; set the 100 m breaststroke world record of 1:19.80 on 9 May 1943, first woman under 1:20, and later set masters age-group records.
Gisela Kinzel
Gisela Maria Kinzel (née Gottwald), born 1961, West German 400 m sprinter of SC Eintracht Hamm; 1986 European relay silver, 1987 indoor silvers, Seoul 1988 Olympian, later named in the Hammer Modell doping affair.
Gisela Kohler Birkemeyer
Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer (Gisela Birkemeyer, née Köhler), East German sprinter and 80 m hurdler, 1931–2024; Olympic silver 1956 and bronze 1960, nine world records, 40 national titles.
Gisela Mauermayer
Gisela Mauermayer (1913–1995), German discus, shot put and pentathlon athlete; 1936 Berlin Olympic discus champion (47.63 m), 1938 European champion, multi world record holder, Nazi Party member from 1932, later zoological librarian in Munich.
Gisela Medefindt
Gisela Medefindt (later Bodis), born 1957, East German rower of SC Berlin-Grünau; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold in coxed quadruple sculls as a heat rower, 1974 world bronze in double sculls.
Gisele Vallerey
Gisele Vallerey (Gisèle Vallerey-Mamelonet), French swimmer, 1948 Olympian in the 100 m freestyle and relay, world and European 100 m breaststroke record holder (1:17.4, 1950–1951), sister of Georges Vallerey Jr.
Giselle Ansley
Giselle Ansley (born 1992) is a retired English field hockey defender for England and Great Britain, Rio 2016 Olympic gold and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist, 2022 Commonwealth champion, MBE, retired September 2024.
Githyanki
Githyanki: D&D fictional race of astral-raiding warriors created by Charles Stross (name from George R. R. Martin's Dying of the Light), first in White Dwarf #12 (1979); split from githzerai, ruled by lich-queen Vlaakith CLVII, known for red dragons and silver swords.
Gitte Madsen
Gitte Madsen (Gitte Madsen-Kaarod), born 1969 in Herning, Danish handball player; Olympic gold 1996 Atlanta, world gold 1997, European gold 1996; 120 caps, 288 goals; clubs Horsens HK, Bækkelagets SK, DHG, GOG; retired 2000 after discus injuries.
Gitte Sunesen
Gitte Sunesen (born 1971), Danish handball goalkeeper, full name Gitte Jensby Sunesen Vilhelmsen; Olympic gold 1996, European gold 1994 and 1996, world gold 1997; entire club career at GOG, 135 caps.
Giulia (ジュリア) (wrestler)
Giulia, also known as Eimi Matsudo, is a Japanese professional wrestler born in London who starred in STARDOM before joining WWE in 2024 and winning the NXT Women's Championship.
Giulia Galli (footballer)
Giulia Galli, born 2008 in Rome, is an Italian forward who debuted for AS Roma's women's team as its youngest ever player, won the 2025 U-17 World Cup FIFA Bronze Boot, and transferred to FC Barcelona in 2026. Not the physicist Giulia Galli.
Giulia Manfrini
Giulia Manfrini (1988-2024), Italian surfer and AWAVE Travel co-founder from Venaria Reale; former Italian Big Air snowboard champion; died 18 October 2024 when an imperial needlefish pierced her chest at Beng Bengs, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.
Giulia Mantilli
Giulia Mantilli, Italian barebow archer (born 1985) of Arcieri Romani Rome; barebow women's 18 m world record 559/600 (2026), five-time Italian indoor champion, 2026 Nimes Indoor World Series winner.
Giulia Rizzi
Giulia Rizzi, born 1989 in Udine, is an Italian right-handed épée fencer, Olympic team champion at Paris 2024 and world team champion in 2026, with European team gold in 2024.