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Gennifer Flowers
Gennifer Flowers, born 1950, American singer and former model who alleged a 12-year affair with Bill Clinton, revealed by Star in January 1992 and nearly derailing his presidential campaign.
Genrō
Genrō (元老) were elder statesmen of Meiji and prewar Japan who advised the emperor and recommended prime ministers, ending with Saionji Kinmochi's death in 1940.
Gentlemen's agreement
Gentlemen's agreement: an informal, non-binding arrangement honored through trust, honor, and social pressure rather than legal enforceability; best-known example is the 1907-08 US-Japan immigration understanding.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics, from German Geopolitik coined by Rudolf Kjellén in 1899, studies how geography shapes power in international relations; classical thinkers include Mackinder, Mahan, and Spykman, later challenged by critical geopolitics.
Geopolitics (journal)
Geopolitics is a peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis journal founded in 1996 by Richard Schofield as Geopolitics and International Boundaries. It publishes multidisciplinary research on geopolitics and political geography, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.8 (Q1).
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904–1973), German shipping attaché in occupied Copenhagen and later Brandt's State Secretary, warned Danish leaders of the October 1943 Jewish deportation, enabling about 7,200 Jews to escape to Sweden; Righteous Among the Nations 1971.
Georg Kippels
Georg Kippels, also known as Dr. Georg Kippels, is a German CDU politician and lawyer who has sat in the Bundestag since 2013 for Rhein-Erft-Kreis I.
Georg Ritter von Schönerer
Georg Ritter von Schönerer (1842–1921), Austrian Pan-German and antisemitic politician, author of the 1882 Linzer Programm, founder of the Alldeutsche Vereinigung, stripped of title after the 1888 Tagblatt raid, ideological forerunner of Hitler.
George Aiken
George David Aiken (1892–1984), Vermont horticulturist and Republican politician: governor 1937–1941, US senator 1941–1975; St. Lawrence Seaway advocate, McCarthy censure backer, and author of the Vietnam 'declare victory and withdraw' proposal.
George Alvarez
George Alvarez is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from the 78th district in the Bronx, representing neighborhoods including Kingsbridge Heights, Fordham, Bedford Park, and Belmont.
George Austin (Connecticut politician)
George Austin is an American politician and small business owner from Suffield, Connecticut, the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Connecticut's 2nd district, facing incumbent Democrat Joe Courtney.
George B. Cortelyou
George B. Cortelyou (1862–1940), American presidential aide and three-post cabinet secretary under Theodore Roosevelt: first Commerce and Labor secretary, Postmaster General, Treasury secretary during the Panic of 1907, later Consolidated Gas president.
George Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan
George Charles Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan (born 1967), British hereditary peer, only son of the 7th Earl who vanished in 1974 after the Sandra Rivett murder; assumed the title after a 2016 presumption-of-death certificate and entered the hereditary peers register as Baron Bingham.
George Borrello
George Borrello is an American politician and Republican member of the New York State Senate representing the 57th district, known for opposing the Medical Aid in Dying Act and pushing utility cost transparency.
George Brown (Canadian politician)
George Brown (1818–1880), Scottish-born Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation, founded the Toronto Globe in 1844, led the Clear Grits, joined the 1864 Great Coalition, and served in the Senate from 1873.
George Busbee
George Dekle Busbee (1927-2004), Democratic 77th governor of Georgia 1975-1983, first to serve two consecutive four-year terms; established statewide kindergarten, new constitution, fiscal conservative, later King & Spalding partner.
George Canning
George Canning (1770-1827), British Tory statesman and briefly Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1827, was twice Foreign Secretary, fought a famous 1809 duel with Castlereagh, backed Catholic emancipation, and died after 119 days in office.
George Clinton (vice president)
George Clinton (1739–1812), first and longest-serving governor of New York and fourth U.S. vice president under Jefferson and Madison; died in office April 20, 1812, leaving the vice presidency vacant until 1813.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), British Conservative statesman: Viceroy of India 1899–1905 (Partition of Bengal, Kitchener dispute) and Foreign Secretary 1919–24 (Treaty of Lausanne).
George Deukmejian
George Deukmejian (Courken George Deukmejian, Jr.) was California's 35th governor (1983–1991) and 27th attorney general, a Republican law-and-order conservative who defeated Tom Bradley twice and was the first Armenian-American state governor.
George Eustice
George Eustice, Conservative MP for Camborne and Redruth 2010-2024, was UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2020-2022, steered the Fisheries Act 2020, led post-Brexit fishing negotiations, and later advised waste firm Augean.
George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan, American diplomat and historian, author of the Long Telegram (1946) and the 1947 'X' article in Foreign Affairs, formulated the US Cold War containment policy and later criticized its militarization.
George Fernandes
George Fernandes (1930–2019), Indian socialist politician and trade unionist; led the 1974 railway strike, resisted the Emergency (Baroda Dynamite case), forced Coca-Cola and IBM out as Industries minister, and served as Defence Minister during the 1998 Pokhran tests and Kargil war.
George Finch (councillor)
George Finch is a Reform UK politician, youngest UK council leader, heading Warwickshire County Council from July 2025 aged 19 and Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council from May 2026, surviving a 2026 no-confidence vote by one vote.
George Friedman
George Friedman, Hungarian-American geopolitical forecaster, founder of Stratfor (1996) and Geopolitical Futures (2015), author of The Next 100 Years; known for structural geopolitical forecasting and its mixed record.
George Galloway
George Galloway (born 1954, Dundee) is a British politician elected seven times to the Commons for Labour, Respect and the Workers Party of Britain, expelled from Labour in 2003 over Iraq, and MP for Rochdale in 2024.
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018), 41st U.S. president (1989–1993) and 43rd vice president, ex-CIA director and World War II Navy pilot; led the Gulf War coalition, signed the ADA, and lost the 1992 election.
George H. W. Bush vomiting incident
George H. W. Bush vomiting incident: January 8, 1992 Tokyo state dinner where the U.S. president vomited on Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainted from acute gastroenteritis, spawning the slang term bushusuru.
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), British Peelite statesman, Foreign Secretary 1828-30 and 1841-46, and Prime Minister 1852-55 of a coalition felled by the Crimean War.
George Helmy
George Samir Helmy, Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey (August 23 to December 8, 2024), appointed by Governor Phil Murphy after Bob Menendez's resignation; first Coptic Orthodox senator; former Murphy chief of staff, now RWJBarnabas Health executive.