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Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913), Anglo-Irish field-marshal of Red River, Ashanti, Tel-el-Kebir, and Gordon relief fame; also the reformer behind the modern British Army and the phrase 'All Sir Garnet.'
Gary Gordon
Gary Gordon (1960-1993), Delta Force sniper team leader from Lincoln, Maine, died 3 October 1993 defending Super 64's crash site in Mogadishu; posthumous Medal of Honor from Clinton in 1994, namesake of USNS Gordon and Fort Gordon.
Gaspar Yanga
Gaspar Yanga, also recorded as Ñanga, was a maroon leader near Veracruz, New Spain, who negotiated peace after a Spanish campaign in 1609, leading to the free town of San Lorenzo de los Negros.
Gaston Moch
Gaston Moch (1859–1935) was a French artillery officer and pacifist publicist, one of the first Esperantists in France, who resigned from the army in 1894 to campaign for disarmament and Franco-German reconciliation.
Gatot Soebroto
Gatot Soebroto (also written Gatot Subroto) was an Indonesian army general who crushed the 1948 Communist rebellion at Madiun and was named a National Hero in 1962.
Gaurav Yadav (गौरव यादव) (police officer)
Gaurav Yadav (गौरव यादव), 1992-batch Punjab cadre IPS officer born 1969, Punjab's DGP since July 2022 (officiating) and regular DGP from 9 October 2026; former intelligence wing chief and first Jalandhar police commissioner.
Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip (1894–1918), Bosnian Serb South Slav nationalist and Young Bosnia member, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914; sentenced to 20 years, died of tuberculosis in prison; his memory remains contested between Serbia and Bosnia.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), Prussian field marshal, nicknamed Marshal Forward, commanded Prussia's armies at Katzbach, Leipzig, the 1814 invasion of France, and Waterloo, where his arrival decided the battle.
Gene Gotti
Eugene "Gene" Gotti, Gambino crime family mobster and brother of boss John Gotti; indicted 1983 on drug racketeering, tried before an anonymous jury in 1987, and sentenced to 50 years for narcotics trafficking.
General Butt Naked
General Butt Naked is the nom de guerre of Joshua Milton Blahyi (born 1971), a ULIMO-J warlord of Liberia's First Civil War who fought naked claiming spiritual protection and later became an evangelical preacher after confessing before the TRC in 2008.
Genghis Khan (Чингис хаан)
Genghis Khan (Чингис хаан), born Temüjin, c. 1162/1167–1227, founder of the Mongol empire, proclaimed at the 1206 quriltay; conquered Xi Xia, Jin China, Qara Khitay, and Khwarazm; burial place unknown.
Genrikh Yagoda (Генрих Григорьевич Ягода)
Genrikh Yagoda (Генрих Григорьевич Ягода, born Enoch Gershenovich, 1891–1938), Soviet security chief, first NKVD people's commissar 1934–36, OGPU deputy chairman, organizer of the 1936 show trial, executed after the 1938 Trial of the Twenty-One.
Geochilbu
Geochilbu (거칠부, 502–579) was a Silla general, statesman, and historian who compiled the kingdom's first national history and took ten districts from Goguryeo in 551.
Geoffrey Cardozo
Geoffrey Cardozo is a retired British Army colonel of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who organized the burial of Argentine war dead after the 1982 Falklands War.
Georg Elser
Johann Georg Elser (1903–1945), German carpenter, sole perpetrator of the 8 November 1939 Bürgerbräukeller bomb attack on Hitler in Munich; Hitler left 13 minutes early; Elser was murdered in Dachau in April 1945.
George Atzerodt
George Andrew Atzerodt (1835-1865), German-born carriage painter and boatman, was the Booth conspirator assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson on April 14, 1865; he lost his nerve, was arrested April 20, convicted by military commission, and hanged July 7, 1865.
George B. McClellan
George B. McClellan (1826–1885), Union general-in-chief and organizer of the Army of the Potomac, led the failed Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam, ran against Lincoln in 1864, and later served as governor of New Jersey.
George Blake
George Blake, born George Behar, was a Dutch-born British MI6 officer who secretly worked for the KGB, betraying Western agents, including the Berlin Tunnel operation, during the Cold War.
George C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall Jr. (1880–1959), American General of the Army and statesman; not to be confused with Chief Justice John Marshall. Chief of Staff 1939–45, Secretary of State 1947–49, Secretary of Defense 1950–51, architect of the Marshall Plan and 1953 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
George Cornwallis-West
George Cornwallis-West (1874-1951), born George Frederick Myddelton West, was a Scots Guards officer and author who married Lady Randolph Churchill in 1900 and Mrs Patrick Campbell in 1914, was declared bankrupt, sold the Ruthin Castle and Newlands estates, and died by suicide on 1 April 1951.
George Crook
George Crook (1828–1890), Union general and U.S. Army commander in the Indian Wars: Paiute, Apache, and Great Sioux War campaigns, Battle of the Rosebud, and later advocacy of Native American rights.
George de Mohrenschildt
George de Mohrenschildt (1911-1977), Russian-born American petroleum geologist and Dallas friend of Lee Harvey Oswald from 1962; key Warren Commission witness, found by the HSCA not to have been a CIA agent, died by suicide in 1977.
George Dewey
George Dewey (1837-1917), American naval officer and Admiral of the Navy; victor of the Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898, destroying the Spanish Pacific fleet without losing a man or ship; later led the General Board of the Navy.
George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith
George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith (1746–1823), Scottish Royal Navy admiral; captured the Cape of Good Hope 1795, commanded Mediterranean, North Sea, and Channel fleets, and received Napoleon's surrender in 1815.
George Habash (جورج حبش)
George Habash (جورج حبش), known as al-Hakim, Palestinian physician born in Lydda who founded the Arab Nationalist Movement and the Marxist-Leninist PFLP in 1967, led it until 2000, pioneered aircraft hijackings culminating at Dawson's Field 1970, opposed Oslo, died in Amman 26 January 2008.
George Hunter White
George Hunter White (1908-1975), Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent and OSS truth-drug tester, ran the CIA's Operation Midnight Climax safe houses as Morgan Hall, dosing unwitting men with LSD; distinct from DEA agent George F. White (d. 1973).
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892–1938), born Prince George of Battenberg, was a Royal Navy captain, elder brother of Earl Mountbatten, husband of Nadejda de Torby, and father of the 3rd Marquess.
George Patton IV
George Smith Patton IV (1923-2004), also George S. Patton IV, U.S. Army major general, son of WWII general George S. Patton Jr.; West Point 1946, Korea and Vietnam veteran, two Distinguished Service Crosses, commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry and 2nd Armored Division.
George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718 or 1719 to 1792), was a British admiral who defeated the French fleet at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782.
George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818), Virginia surveyor and Revolutionary War militia officer, led the 1778–1779 Illinois Campaign, capturing Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Fort Sackville at Vincennes and securing US claims north of the Ohio River.