Politics and government

Grzegorz Płaczek

Grzegorz Płaczek is a Polish politician of the Konfederacja party who serves as leader of its parliamentary club in the Sejm, and has chaired the Confederation Parliamentary Club.

Gualberto Villarroel

Gualberto Villarroel was a Bolivian military officer and nationalist reformer who ruled as president from 1943 to 1946, when a mob killed him in La Paz.

Guard of Laws

The Guard of Laws (Polish: Straż Praw) was the royal council forming the executive of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the Constitution of 3 May 1791.

Guardian minister (Maharashtra)

A guardian minister (पालकमंत्री) in Maharashtra is a cabinet minister appointed to oversee one district's development, chairing its District Planning Committee; the post, created in 1972, is not constitutional.

Guatemalan Christian Democracy

Guatemalan Christian Democracy (Democracia Cristiana Guatemalteca, DCG) was a Christian democratic party founded in 1955; its leader Vinicio Cerezo won the 1985 election with 67% and governed 1986–1990 before the party dissolved in 2007–2008.

Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity

The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG, Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca) is a Guatemalan political party formed by four guerrilla groups in 1982 and legalized in 1998.

Guatemalan Party of Labour

The Guatemalan Party of Labour (Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, PGT) was a communist party in Guatemala from 1949 to 1998, prominent under President Jacobo Árbenz.

Guatemalan Republican Front

The Guatemalan Republican Front (Frente Republicano Guatemalteco, FRG) was a right-wing populist Guatemalan party founded in 1990 by associates of retired general Efraín Ríos Montt, dominating politics in the 1990s.

Guatemalan Revolution

The Guatemalan Revolution (Revolución de Guatemala) was a reformist decade in Guatemala from 1944 to 1954, opened by the October 1944 uprising and closed by a CIA-backed coup.

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson), born 1968, Icelandic historian and sixth president of Iceland 2016–2024, re-elected 2020, now professor of history at the University of Iceland.

Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir

Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir (born 1970, Selfoss) is an Icelandic Independence Party politician, party leader since 2025, MP for the South Constituency since 2021, and former Minister of Justice (2023–2024).

Gugsa Welle

Gugsa Welle (Ge'ez: ጉግሳ ወሌ), also spelled Gugsa Wale, was an Ethiopian nobleman, husband of Empress Zewditu and governor of Begemder, killed in 1930 at the Battle of Anchem after rebelling against Regent Ras Tafari Makonnen.

Guided Democracy in Indonesia

Guided Democracy in Indonesia (Demokrasi Terpimpin), also called the Old Order, governed from 1959 to 1966, concentrating power in President Sukarno before the 1966 transfer to Suharto's New Order.

Guido Buffarini Guidi

Guido Buffarini Guidi (1895-1945), Pisa-born Fascist politician, Mussolini's undersecretary and de facto head of the Interior Ministry 1933-1943, Interior Minister of the Salò republic 1943-1945; author of the 1935 anti-Pentecostal circular and the 1943 decree ordering internment of Italy's Jews; executed at Milan in July 1945.

Guido Crosetto

Guido Crosetto (born 1963, Cuneo) is Italy's Minister of Defence since 22 October 2022 and co-founder of Fratelli d'Italia with Meloni and La Russa; former defence undersecretary (2008-2011) and AIAD president, he steers Italy's Ukraine aid, defence reform, and NATO spending policy.

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Guido Fusinato

Guido Fusinato (1860–1914) was an Italian jurist and statesman, a leading advocate of international arbitration who signed the Treaty of Lausanne ending the 1911–12 war with the Ottoman Empire.

Guild socialism

Guild socialism: early 20th-century British socialist school advocating industrial self-government via national worker guilds under public ownership; led by G. D. H. Cole, organized in the National Guilds League (1915), collapsed 1925.

Guilherme Castro Boulos

Guilherme Castro Boulos, known as Guilherme Boulos, is a Brazilian politician of the Socialism and Liberty Party and Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency since 2025.

Guillaume Kasbarian

Guillaume Kasbarian (born 1987) is a French politician who founded and leads the Parti de la Liberté and serves as deputy for Eure-et-Loir's first constituency.

Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg (b. 1981), also Wëllem, Duke of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon-Parma; eldest son of Henri and Maria Teresa; Hereditary Grand Duke 2000, Lieutenant-Représentant 2024, acceded by oath 3 October 2025; married Stéphanie de Lannoy.

Guillermo Lasso

Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, Ecuadorian conservative banker and president 2021–2023; elected April 2021 over Andrés Arauz, governed without a legislative majority, faced a security crisis and impeachment, and triggered muerte cruzada to dissolve the National Assembly in May 2023.

Guillermo León Valencia

Guillermo León Valencia was a Colombian Conservative politician and diplomat, president of Colombia from 1962 to 1966, whose Operation Marquetalia in 1964 contributed to the birth of the FARC guerrillas.

Guillermo Rodríguez Lara

Guillermo Rodríguez Lara is an Ecuadorian Army general who ruled as de facto president of Ecuador from 1972 to 1976, leading a nationalist military government during the oil boom.

Gujarat Legislative Assembly

Gujarat Legislative Assembly (ગુજરાત વિધાનસભા), Gujarat's unicameral 182-member state legislature, constituted 1960 with 132 members. BJP holds 156 of 182 seats after the December 2022 election; the only Indian state assembly without livestreamed proceedings.

Gulab Raghunath Patil

Gulab Raghunath Patil, known as Gulabrao Patil, is an Indian Shiv Sena politician and Maharashtra minister for Water Supply and Sanitation, representing Jalgaon Rural since 2009.

Gulab Singh

Gulab Singh (1792–1857), Dogra Rajput founder and first Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir; rose under Ranjit Singh, conquered Ladakh and Baltistan via Zorawar Singh, and received Kashmir by the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar for 7.5 million rupees.

Gulam Ali

Gulam Ali is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Jammu, nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2022 as the first Gujjar Muslim from Jammu and Kashmir.

Gulf Cooperation Council

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), or Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: six-member bloc of UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait, founded 25 May 1981 in Abu Dhabi, headquartered in Riyadh, with a 2003 customs union, 2008 common market, and abandoned 2010 monetary union.

Gulf of Mexico naming controversy

The Gulf of Mexico naming controversy began when President Trump signed Executive Order 14172 in 2025, directing federal agencies to call it the Gulf of America.