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Gilad Shalit (גלעד שליט)
Gilad Shalit (גלעד שליט), born 1986, Israeli armored corps soldier captured by Hamas in June 2006 at Kerem Shalom and freed October 18, 2011 in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including Yahya Sinwar.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French aristocrat and major general in the Continental Army; wounded at Brandywine, secured 6,000 French troops, led the 1781 Virginia campaign, drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and toured all 24 U.S. states in 1824-25.
Gilles de Rais
Gilles de Rais (c. 1404-1440), Marshal of France and Joan of Arc's comrade at Orléans, executed in 1440 for child murder; later fused with Perrault's Bluebeard legend, a disputed identification.
Gina Bennett
Gina Bennett, retired CIA counterterrorism analyst and University of Virginia 1988 graduate, authored the 1993 first warning about Osama bin Laden, built the interagency al Qaeda working group, and stayed at Langley on 9/11.
Gina Haspel
Gina Haspel, American career CIA operations officer, first female CIA Director, confirmed 54-45 on May 17, 2018 after nomination by President Trump; earlier first female career Deputy Director; career linked to Thailand black site controversy.
Giorgi Kvinitadze
Giorgi Kvinitadze (გიორგი კვინიტაძე), born Giorgi Chikovani, was a Georgian general who led the army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia during the 1921 Russo-Georgian War.
Giorgi Saakadze
Giorgi Saakadze (გიორგი სააკაძე), c. 1570 to 1629, was a Georgian noble commander and Mouravi of Tbilisi who led the 1625 rebellion against Safavid Iran.
Giovanni Giustiniani (Ιωάννης Λόγγος Ιουστινιάνης)
Giovanni Giustiniani Longo (Ιωάννης Λόγγος Ιουστινιάνης), c. 1418–1453, Genoese nobleman, corsair, and consul of Caffa who commanded Constantinople's land walls as protostrator in 1453, was wounded in the final assault, and died at Chios.
Giovanni Luppis
Giovanni Luppis, in Croatian sources Ivan Blaž Luppis Vukić (1813–1875), was an Austro-Hungarian frigate captain from Rijeka whose unmanned explosive boat, refined by engineer Robert Whitehead, became the first self-propelled torpedo.
Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano
Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, alias El Viejo or Giovanny San Vicente (born 1988), is an alleged senior Tren de Aragua leader, FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, OFAC-sanctioned, indicted in Texas for terrorism support and cocaine trafficking.
Giridhar Aramane
Giridhar Aramane (गिरिधर अरमने), 1988-batch IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, was India's Defence Secretary from 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2024, after serving as Road Transport Secretary; later a corporate director and Unitech CMD from 2026.
Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara, Italian immigrant bricklayer, tried to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park on February 15, 1933; he missed, killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, and was executed March 20, 1933.
Gnaeus Julius Agricola
Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman senator and general, governor of Britain 77/78–83/84 AD; subject of Tacitus' biography the Agricola; conquered Wales and campaigned to Mons Graupius in Scotland.
Gomes Freire de Andrade
Gomes Freire de Andrade (1757–1817) was a Portuguese field marshal who served under Catherine II of Russia and was hanged in 1817 over an unproven liberal conspiracy.
Gongsun Kang
Gongsun Kang (公孫康) was a Chinese warlord of the late Later Han who ruled Liaodong and northwestern Korea from 204 until his death around 221.
Gonville Bromhead
Gonville Bromhead (1844–1891), 'Gunny', British officer of the 24th Foot who commanded B Company at the defence of Rorke's Drift, 22–23 January 1879, won the Victoria Cross there, and was later portrayed by Michael Caine in Zulu (1964).
Gopal Mukherjee
Gopal Chandra Mukherjee, known as Gopal Patha (গোপালচন্দ্র মুখোপাধ্যায়), was a Calcutta meat trader and strongman who led the Bharat Jatiya Bahini's Hindu armed resistance during the Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946, later refusing to surrender arms to Gandhi.
Gordon Bennett (general)
Henry Gordon Bennett (1887–1962), Australian lieutenant general, commanded the 8th Division in Malaya and escaped Singapore after the 15 February 1942 surrender; postwar enquiries found the escape unjustified, ending his career.
Gordon Gray (politician)
Gordon Gray (1909–1982), American newspaper publisher and public servant; Secretary of the Army, UNC system president, AEC board chairman in the Oppenheimer case, and Eisenhower's National Security Advisor 1958–1961.
Gordon Kahl
Gordon W. Kahl, North Dakota farmer, Posse Comitatus member, and anti-tax fugitive, killed two U.S. marshals at Medina, ND in 1983 and died in an Arkansas shootout.
Gotse Delchev
Gotse Delchev, a revolutionary, shaped IMARO's fight for autonomy in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He died in battle in 1903 and is a national hero to both Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594–1632), imperial field marshal of the Thirty Years' War, commander of the 'Pappenheimer' cuirassiers, stormer of Magdeburg 1631, mortally wounded at Lützen; namesake of Schiller's proverbial phrase and the Pappenheimer helmet.
Gotthard Heinrici
Gotthard Heinrici (1886-1971) was a German Generaloberst, the Wehrmacht's leading defensive specialist, commanding the 4th Army and Army Group Vistula; his diaries, edited by Johannes Hürter, document the German war of annihilation in the Soviet Union.
Götz von Berlichingen
Götz von Berlichingen (ca. 1480–1562), Franconian Imperial knight and mercenary, lost his right hand at Landshut in 1504 and wore two famous mechanical iron hands, later immortalized by Goethe's 1773 play.
Graham Hayes
Captain Graham Hayes (1914–1943), Border Regiment officer and Small Scale Raiding Force commando, MC winner for Operation Postmaster, executed at Fresnes prison 13 July 1943; distinct from AIF namesake Graham Frederick Hayes.
Gregor MacGregor
Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845), Scottish soldier and Cazique of Poyais, invented the fictional Central American country of Poyais, floated a £loan on the London market in 1822, and sent settlers to a jungle where most died.
Gregorio del Pilar
Gregorio del Pilar (Goyo, the Boy General), 1875–1899, Filipino revolutionary general of Bulacan, nephew of Marcelo H. del Pilar, hero of Tirad Pass where he died covering Aguinaldo's retreat.
Gregory Bovino
Gregory Bovino, also called Greg Bovino, is a retired U.S. Border Patrol officer, born 1970, who led Trump-era urban immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis as CBP commander at large before retiring in March 2026.
Gregory Coleman (FBI special agent)
Gregory Coleman, retired FBI special agent (served 1989–2015) who led the Jordan Belfort/Stratton Oakmont securities fraud investigation, portrayed by Kyle Chandler in The Wolf of Wall Street; now founder of Coleman Worldwide Advisors.
Gregory D. Gadson
Gregory D. Gadson, born 1966, retired U.S. Army colonel and West Point football player who lost both legs to a 2007 Iraq IED, stayed on duty, commanded Fort Belvoir, inspired the 2007 Giants' Super Bowl win, and starred in Battleship.