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Gulzarilal Nanda (गुलज़ारीलाल नंदा)

Gulzarilal Nanda (गुलज़ारीलाल नंदा), 1898–1998, Indian Gandhian labour leader and economist, twice acting Prime Minister of India (1964, 1966), Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association secretary, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Bharat Ratna 1997.

Gumma Thanuja Rani

Gumma Thanuja Rani, born in 1993, is an Indian YSR Congress Party politician and former medical doctor who has represented the Araku constituency in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Gummadi Sandhya Rani

Gummadi Sandhya Rani is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician who serves as Andhra Pradesh's minister for Women & Child Welfare and Tribal Welfare, elected from Salur in 2024.

Gunboat diplomacy

Gunboat diplomacy, also known as gunship diplomacy, is a foreign policy where a larger state uses naval force to coerce a weaker one. This practice peaked in the 19th century.

Gungnaebu

Gungnaebu (궁내부) was the Korean government office in charge of royal household affairs from 1894 to 1910, becoming the central organ of the Korean Empire under Emperor Gojong.

Gunnar Strömmer

Gunnar Strömmer is a Swedish Moderate Party politician serving as Minister for Justice, who in 2002 founded the nonprofit foundation Centrum för rättvisa to strengthen individual rights.

Gunther Krichbaum

Gunther Krichbaum is a German CDU politician who has been Minister of State for Europe since 2025 and has represented Pforzheim in the Bundestag since 2002.

Gurajala Jagan Mohan

Gurajala Jagan Mohan (GJM), Telugu Desam Party MLA for Chittoor (AC 172) in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly since June 2024; won 88,066 votes with a 14,604 margin, declared assets about Rs 142 crore and one pending criminal case.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (born 1957) is Turkmenistan's second president (2007-2022) and, since 2023, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty titled National Leader of the Turkmen people; his son Serdar succeeded him in 2022 while he retained supreme power.

Guri Melby

Guri Melby is a Norwegian politician who leads the Liberal Party (Venstre) and its parliamentary group, and previously served as Minister of Education in the Solberg government.

Gurjeet Singh Aujla

Gurjeet Singh Aujla, born 1972, in Amritsar, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Amritsar in the Lok Sabha since 2017.

Gurju Khatun

Gurju Khatun (Gürcü Hatun), born Tamar, was a Georgian Bagratid princess who married the Seljuk sultan of Rum, Kaykhusraw II, and became a leading patron of Rumi in Konya.

Gurmeet Singh Khuddian

Gurmeet Singh Khuddian is an Indian politician from the Aam Aadmi Party and a minister in the Punjab government who defeated five-time chief minister Parkash Singh Badal at Lambi in 2022.

Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer

Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, born in 1989, is an Indian Aam Aadmi Party politician and former Punjab cabinet minister who won the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat in 2024.

Guru Khushwant Saheb

Guru Khushwant Saheb is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Chhattisgarh, holding the skill development, technical education, employment, and Scheduled Caste Development portfolios since 2025.

Gurupadagouda Patil

Gurupadagouda Sanganagouda Patil (G S Patil), Congress MLA from Ron (67), Gadag, Karnataka; four-time MLA and Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly since August 2026, first elected in 1989.

Gurwinder Singh Oberoi

Gurwinder Singh Oberoi, also known as Shammi Oberoi, is an Indian National Conference politician, party treasurer since 2017, elected to the Rajya Sabha from Jammu and Kashmir in 2025.

Gus Bilirakis

Gus M. Bilirakis, born in 1963, is an American Republican politician serving as U.S. representative for Florida's 12th district since 2013, after representing the 9th district from 2007.

Gustaf Roos

Gustaf Roos (1859–1938) was a Swedish politician and civil servant, a consultative minister in Lindman's government from 1906 to 1909 and governor of Gotland from 1912 to 1927.

Gustaf V

Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf), King of Sweden 1907–1950, last Swedish monarch with real political influence; forced the 1914 Courtyard Crisis government resignation, accepted parliamentarism in 1917, backed WWII neutrality, and was a noted tennis player ('Mr. G').

Gustaf VI Adolf

Gustaf VI Adolf (Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf, 1882–1973), King of Sweden 1950–1973, last holder of the title King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends; amateur archaeologist, Asine excavator, Chinese art collector; succeeded by grandson Carl XVI Gustaf.

Gustav III

Gustav III (1746–1792), King of Sweden 1771–1792; staged the 1772 'Swedish Revolution' ending the Age of Liberty, passed the Union and Security Act 1789, won Svensksund 1790, and was shot by Anckarström at the Stockholm Opera masquerade on 16 March 1792.

Gustav Landauer

Gustav Landauer (1870–1919), German-Jewish anarchist writer and editor of Der Sozialist, theorist of communal libertarian socialism, founder of the Sozialistischer Bund, and People's Commissioner in the 1919 Munich council republic, murdered after its suppression.

Gustav Noske

Gustav Noske (1868–1946), German SPD politician and first Reichswehr minister of the Weimar Republic; the 'bloodhound' who suppressed the 1919–20 left-wing uprisings with Freikorps, resigned after the Kapp Putsch, later Oberpräsident of Hannover.

Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French physician and sociologist, founder of crowd psychology; author of The Crowd (Psychologie des foules, 1895) and The Psychology of Peoples (1894), theorist of the crowd's collective mind.

Gustavo Gayer

Gustavo Gayer is a Brazilian Liberal Party politician, a first-term federal deputy for Goiás serving as Leader of the Minority in the Chamber of Deputies.

Gustavo Gonzalez Lopez

Gustavo González López, born in 1960, is a Venezuelan General-in-Chief serving as Minister of Defense since March 2026, having previously led domestic intelligence until 2024.

Gustavo Petro

Gustavo Petro (Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego), Colombian economist, ex-M-19 guerrilla, senator, and Bogotá mayor, was president 2022-2026, Colombia's first leftist head of state; known for Total Peace, fossil-fuel phase-out pledges, and severed Israel ties.

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was a Colombian general who seized power in a 1953 coup and ruled as the country's only twentieth-century military dictator until 1957.

Gustavs Zemgals

Gustavs Zemgals was a Latvian lawyer and statesman who served as the second President of Latvia from 1927 to 1930, and chaired the 1918 declaration of independence.