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1,666 profilesGeorge Berkeley
12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753
George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, famous for his doctrine of imm...
George Boole
2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864
George Boole (1815-1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician and logician who created Boolean algebra, the s...
George C. Marshall
31 December 1880 – 16 October 1959
George Catlett Marshall was an American soldier and statesman who served as U.S. Army Chief of Staff during World War II...
George Eastman
12 July 1854 – 14 March 1932
George Eastman was an American entrepreneur and inventor who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized roll film...
George Eliot
22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880
George Eliot (1819-1880), the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was an English novelist, poet, and translator, one of the lead...
George Fox
July 1624 – 13 January 1691
George Fox (1624-1691) was an English Dissenter and the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as t...
George Frideric Handel
23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759
German-born British Baroque composer famous for his operas, oratorios, and orchestral works, above all the oratorio Mess...
George Gamow
4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968
George Gamow (1904-1968) was a Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who made major contributions to qu...
George Gershwin
26 September 1898 – 11 July 1937
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose works spanned popular and classical genres. He is best known...
George Orwell
25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950
English novelist and essayist whose Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four gave the world its sharpest vocabulary for desc...
George Sand
1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876
George Sand (1804-1876), the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, was a French novelist and memoirist and one of th...
George Stephenson
9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848
George Stephenson (1781-1848) was an English civil and mechanical engineer known as the 'Father of Railways'. He built p...
George Washington
22 February 1732 – 14 December 1799
Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and the first President of the United States.
George Westinghouse
6 October 1846 – 12 March 1914
George Westinghouse (1846-1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a p...
Georges Clemenceau
28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929
Georges Clemenceau was a French statesman and journalist who served as Prime Minister of France during the final years o...
Georges Lemaître
17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966
Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, physicist and astronomer who first proposed that the univers...
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was a French naturalist, mathematician, and encyclopedic author whose 36-volume...
Georgia O'Keeffe
15 November 1887 – 6 March 1986
Georgia O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist known as the 'Mother of American modernism'. She is celebrated for her...
Gerardus Mercator
5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer, and cartographer, famous for the 1569 world map ba...
Gerhard Domagk
30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964
Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist who discovered the antibacterial effects of the sulfonamide d...
Gerolamo Cardano
24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576
Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was an Italian polymath — physician, mathematician, astrologer, and gambler — of the Renais...
Gertrude Elion
23 January 1918 – 21 February 1999
Gertrude B. Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who developed numerous influential drugs using rational...
Getúlio Vargas
19 April 1882 – 24 August 1954
Getúlio Vargas was a Brazilian politician who served as president of Brazil across two periods, first as an authoritaria...
Ghada Shouaa
10 September 1972 – present
Ghada Shouaa is a Syrian former heptathlete who won the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the first Olympic...
Ghassan Kanafani
8 April 1936 – 8 July 1972
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian writer and journalist, author of the novellas Men in the Sun and Returning to Haifa,...
Gholamreza Takhti
27 August 1930 – 7 January 1968
Gholamreza Takhti was an Iranian freestyle wrestler who won an Olympic gold medal in 1956 and two Olympic silver medals,...
Giambattista Vico
23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, and historian, best known for his New Science (Sc...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect who was the dominant creative force of the Roman...
Gianni Agnelli
12 March 1921 – 24 January 2003
Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat, the car maker founded by his...
Gianni Versace
2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997
Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer who founded the Versace label in Milan in 1978 and became known for brigh...
Gil Shwed
1968 – present
Gil Shwed is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Check Point Software Technologies in 1993 and...
Gilbert N. Lewis
23 October 1875 – 23 March 1946
Gilbert Newton Lewis was an American physical chemist best known for his concept of the covalent bond and the electron-p...
Gioachino Rossini
29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas, including The Barber of Seville, La Cenerento...
Giordano Bruno
1548 – 17 February 1600
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher, former Dominican friar, and cosmological theorist who proposed th...
Giorgio Armani
11 July 1934 – 4 September 2025
Giorgio Armani was an Italian fashion designer who founded the Giorgio Armani label in 1975 and built it into a global l...
Giotto
c. 1267 – 8 January 1337
Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter and architect from Florence, regarded as the decisive founder of Western pictor...
Giovanni Boccaccio
June 1313 – 21 December 1375
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, and humanist, best known for the Decameron, a collection of one hundred...
Giovanni Falcone
18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992
Giovanni Falcone was an Italian magistrate who spent most of his career investigating the Sicilian Mafia. Working within...
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
c. 1525 – 2 February 1594
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and the foremost master of Roman school...
Giuseppe Garibaldi
4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was an Italian general and republican revolutionary who became one of the principal archi...
Giuseppe Verdi
10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian composer who dominated 19th-century Italian opera. His works, including Rigole...
Glenn Gould
25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982
Glenn Gould was a Canadian classical pianist renowned for his interpretations of J.S. Bach, especially the Goldberg Vari...
Glenn Seaborg
19 April 1912 – 25 February 1999
Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American chemist known for his contributions to the discovery and isolation of ten transur...
Golda Meir
3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978
Golda Meir was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel, the first woman to hold the offi...
Googoosh
5 May 1950 – present
Googoosh is the stage name of Faegheh Atashin, an Iranian singer and actress who became the best-known figure in Iranian...
Gordon Moore
3 January 1929 – 24 March 2023
Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, engineer, and co-founder of Intel Corporation. He is known for Moore's L...
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1 July 1646 – 14 November 1716
German polymath who invented calculus independently of Newton, devised the binary number system, and made lasting contri...
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, and art critic, one of the most influe...