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George I of Great Britain
George I (Georg Ludwig), Elector of Hanover, was the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain, reigning 1714-1727 under the Act of Settlement after Queen Anne's death; his reign saw the 1715 Jacobite rising, cabinet government, and Walpole's first premiership.
George I of Greece
George I of Greece (Γεώργιος Α΄), born Prince William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Danish prince elected King of the Hellenes 1863, reigned nearly fifty years, doubled Greek territory, assassinated in Thessaloniki 1913.
George I Rákóczi
George I Rákóczi (Hungarian: I. Rákóczi György; 1593–1648) was Prince of Transylvania from 1630 to 1648, whose rule is remembered as the principality's last golden age.
George II of Great Britain
George II (George Augustus, 1683-1760), King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-1760 and Elector of Hanover; last British monarch to lead troops in battle at Dettingen 1743, last monarch buried in Westminster Abbey, succeeded by grandson George III.
George II of Greece
George II of Greece (Γεώργιος Β΄, 1890–1947), King of the Hellenes 1922–1924 and 1935–1947, eldest son of Constantine I; twice exiled, consented to Metaxas's 1936 dictatorship, led the wartime government-in-exile, and returned after the disputed 1946 plebiscite.
George III
George III (1738-1820), third Hanoverian king of Great Britain and Ireland (r. 1760-1820), first Hanoverian born in England. Lost the American colonies, suffered recurrent mental illness (bipolar disorder, not porphyria), patronized arts, science, and farming.
George III of Georgia
Giorgi III (გიორგი III) was king of Georgia from 1156 until his death in 1184, the son of Demetre I and father of Queen Tamar, whom he crowned co-ruler in 1178.
George J. Mitchell
George J. Mitchell (b. 1933, Waterville, Maine), Democratic senator from Maine 1980-1995 and Senate majority leader from January 1989, later chaired the Northern Ireland talks that produced the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and served as U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace; Medal of Freedom recipient.
George Koovakad
George Jacob Koovakad (born 1973) is an Indian Syro-Malabar cardinal, former Vatican diplomat and coordinator of papal travels, and since January 2025 Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.
George Lang (Ohio politician)
George Lang is an American Republican politician who represents most of Butler County in the Ohio Senate, elected in 2020 after two terms in the Ohio House.
George Lansbury
George Lansbury (1859–1940), British Labour leader 1932–1935 and MP for Bow and Bromley, led the 1921 Poplar Rates Rebellion, edited the Daily Herald, and resigned over pacifism in 1935.
George Latimer (New York politician)
George Latimer is an American Democratic politician who has represented New York's 16th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2025, after serving as Westchester County Executive.
George Lincoln Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967), American founder and Commander of the American Nazi Party (founded 1959, later National Socialist White People's Party); assassinated August 25, 1967 in Arlington, Virginia by former member John Patler.
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737–1806), Anglo-Irish diplomat and colonial governor who led Britain's first embassy to China (1792–1794) to the Qianlong emperor; the kowtow dispute and failed trade treaty made it a landmark of Sino-British relations.
George Mason
George Mason (1725–1792), Virginia planter of Gunston Hall, authored the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, a model for the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights; he refused to sign the 1787 Constitution.
George McDermott
George McDermott is an American Republican politician and contractor, the party's 2026 nominee for U.S. Representative from Maryland's 4th District, a seat he has sought repeatedly since 2014.
George McGovern
George McGovern (1922–2012), South Dakota senator 1963–1981 and Food for Peace director, chaired the McGovern-Fraser Commission, was the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Nixon in a landslide, and shared the 2008 World Food Prize with Robert Dole.
George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign
George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign: the antiwar senator won the Democratic nomination under his own McGovern-Fraser reforms, then lost to Nixon in a landslide, carrying only Massachusetts and DC.
George Moscone
George Richard Moscone was an American lawyer and Democratic politician, mayor of San Francisco from 1976 until he and Harvey Milk were assassinated by Dan White in 1978.
George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (born 1961), British hereditary peer and head of the House of Mountbatten; founded uSwitch.com, sold in 2006 for about £100 million to him.
George Norcross
George E. Norcross III, South Jersey insurance executive and unelected Democratic boss of Camden County politics; indicted June 2024 on Camden waterfront racketeering charges, dismissed 2025-2026.
George P. Bush
George P. Bush, also known as George Prescott Bush, is an American attorney who served as the 28th Texas Land Commissioner from 2015 to 2023.
George Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos, Trump 2016 campaign foreign policy adviser whose contacts with Joseph Mifsud and Russian intermediaries triggered the FBI's Russia investigation; he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was pardoned in 2020.
George Papandreou
George Papandreou (Γιώργος Α. Παπανδρέου), Greek PASOK politician, prime minister 2009–2011 during the debt crisis, first EU/IMF memorandum, 2011 referendum climbdown and resignation; later Socialist International president.
George Pataki
George Pataki, Republican governor of New York 1995-2007, who defeated three-term incumbent Mario Cuomo in 1994, led the state's response to the September 11 attacks, cut taxes and welfare rolls, and later ran for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
George Percy, Earl Percy
George Dominic Percy, Earl Percy (born 1984) is the contemporary heir apparent to the Dukedom of Northumberland, elder son of the 12th Duke, a former Page of Honour to Elizabeth II and Cluff Geothermal co-founder, distinct from earlier Percy namesakes.
George Reddy
George Reddy (జార్జి రెడ్డి), Osmania University MSc physics gold medalist and founder of Progressive Democratic Students, killed April 1972; his death seeded the Radical Students Union and India's Maoist student lineage.
George Ryan
George Ryan (1934-2025), 39th governor of Illinois (1999-2003), Republican from Kankakee; halted executions, commuted 167 death sentences in 2003, then convicted of federal corruption and imprisoned 2007-2013.
George Santos
George Anthony Devolder Santos, Republican U.S. representative for New York's 3rd District (2023), expelled from the House in December 2023 after a House Ethics report, pleaded guilty in 2024 to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, and had his prison sentence commuted by Trump in 2025.
George Shultz
George Pratt Shultz (1920–2021), American economist and statesman, 60th U.S. Secretary of State (1982–89) under Reagan and holder of four Cabinet posts; architect of U.S.–Soviet diplomacy and the 1987 INF Treaty.