Biographies: Selected Biographies A to Z: G
Updated August 5, 2020 |
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- Clark Gable, actor
- Milton Gabler, record producer
- Eva Gabor, actor
- Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor
- Gabriel, biblical figure, saint
- Peter Gabriel, rock musician
- Muammar Gaddafi, political leader
- Lady Gaga, singer, songwriter
- Yuri Gagarin, astronaut
- Neil Gaiman, writer
- Galadriel, fictional elf
- Ernesto Galarza, labor organizer, historian, professor, activist
- Johnny Galecki, actor
- Zach Galifianakis, actor, comedian
- Galileo Galilei, astronomer, mathematician
- Kyle Gallner, actor
- George Gallup, pollster
- James Galway, flutist
- Carlo Gambino, crime boss
- The Game, rapper
- Gandalf, fictional wizard
- Indira Gandhi, political figure
- Mohandas Gandhi, political Leader, activist
- James Gandolfini, actor
- Greta Garbo, actor
- Andy Garcia, actor
- Jerry Garcia, guitarist, rock musician
- Nina Garcia, fashion director
- Rupert GarcÃÂa, Artist
- Nomar Garciaparra, baseball player
- Ava Gardner, actor
- Andrew Garfield, actor
- Eugene Garfield, scientist, publisher
- Lucretia Garfield, U.S. First Lady
- Art Garfunkel, singer; actor
- Judy Garland, actor, singer
- Merrick Garland, jurist, Supreme Court nominee
- Erroll Garner, pianist, composer, jazz musician
- James Garner, actor
- Jennifer Garner, actor
- Janeane Garofalo, actor, comedian
- Pat Garrett, lawman
- Robert Garrett, financier
- William Lloyd Garrison, antislavery activist, publisher
- Greer Garson, actress
- Jennie Garth, actress
- Marcus Garvey, political Leader
- Richard Gasquet, tennis player
- Bill Gates, business personality
- Frederick T. Gates, clergyman, businessman
- Gareth Gates, singer
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., writer, critic, educator, activist
- Robert M. Gates, government official
- Paul Gaugin, artist
- Sunil Gavaskar, cricketer
- Marvin Gaye, singer, songwriter
- Mitzi Gaynor, actress, dancer
- Leymah Gbowee, activist
- David Geffen, music producer, business personality, film producer
- Lou Gehrig, baseball player
- Frank Gehry, architect
- Ed Gein, murderer
- Timothy Geithner, government official
- Bob Geldof, rock musician, philanthropist
- Sarah Michelle Gellar, actor
- Uri Geller, paranormalist
- Martha Gellhorn , international correspondent
- Edmond Charles Genét, political figure
- David Lloyd George, political leader, Prime Minister of Great Britain
- King George I, royalty
- George II, royalty
- King George IV, royalty
- Prince George of Cambridge, royalty
- Eliza E.
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George , Civil War nurse - Frank Gerber, baby food manufacturer
- Richard Gere, actor
- Elbridge Gerry, U.S. Vice President, State Governor
- George Gershwin, composer
- Ira Gershwin, lyricist
- Ricky Gervais, actor, comedian
- Stan Getz, jazz musician, saxophonist
- Georgie Anne Geyer, foreign correspondent
- Yasmeen Ghauri, model
- Alice Ghostley, actress
- Laura San Giacomo, actor
- Paul Giamatti, actor
- Amadeo Peter Giannini, banker
- Robin Gibb, singer, songwriter
- Althea Gibson, tennis player
- Hoot Gibson, actor
- Mel Gibson, actor, filmmaker
- William Gibson, writer
- Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative (Dem., Ariz.)
- Kathie Lee Gifford, talk-show host
- H.R. Giger, artist
- William Gilbert, physician, physicist
- Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth, consulting engineer, household efficiency expert
- Vince Gill, country singer, songwriter
- Marie Gillain, actor
- Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, composer
- King Camp Gillette, inventor, business personality
- Gilligan, fictional character
- Vince Gilligan, TV producer, screenwriter
- Charles Gillingham, keyboards
- Bernard Gimbel , merchant, retailer
- Bruce Gimbel, merchant, retailer
- Isaac Gimbel, retailer
- Newt Gingrich, political figure
- Allen Ginsberg, poet
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
- Nikki Giovanni, poet, educator, activist, Writer
- Ginuwine, singer
- Stephen Girard, merchant, financier, philanthropist
- The Spice Girls, singers
- Lillian Gish, actor
- Rudy Giuliani, political figure
- Philip Glass, composer
- Jackie Gleason, actor, comedian
- John Glenn, Jr., astronaut, U.S. senator
- Scott Glenn, actor
- Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor of barbed wire
- Danny Glover, actor, director
- Louise Glück, poet
- Teddy Goalsevelt, superfan, icon
- Kurt Gödel, mathematician
- Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker
- Paulette Goddard, actress, philanthropist
- William Goddard, inventor
- Lady Godiva, protesting equestrian
- Godzilla, movie monster
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, scientist
- Whoopi Goldberg, comedienne, actress
- Jeff Goldblum, actor
- William Golding, writer
- Peter Goldmark, inventor
- Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
- Tatiana Golovin, tennis player
- E. H. Gombrich, scientist, writer
- Selena Gomez, actor
- Lue Gim Gong, horticulturist
- Patrisia Gonzales, journalist
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, filmmaker
- Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, U.S. congressman
- Jill Goodacre, model
- Jane Goodall, ethologist, conservationist
- Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
- Benny Goodman, jazz musician, bandleader
- Ellen Goodman, columnist
- John Goodman, actor
- Mary Ann Dyer Goodnight , early settler, philanthropist
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of historical biographies
- Anson Conger Goodyear, industrialist, art collector
- Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber
- Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the U.S.S.R.
- Nadine Gordimer, author
- Dexter Gordon, saxophonist, jazz musician
- Berry Gordy, Jr. , record company founder and executive
- Edward Gorey, writer, illustrator
- Gorillaz, animated characters
- Maxim Gorky, writer
- John Gorrie, physician, inventor of refrigeration and air-conditioning
- Marleen Gorris, director, screenwriter
- Jon Gosselin, TV personality
- Kate Gosselin, TV personality
- Louis Gossett, Jr., actor
- John Gotti, mobster
- Izabel Goulart, model
- Elliott Gould, actor
- John Gould, ornithologist
- Robert Goulet, singer, actor
- Betty Grable, actor
- Topher Grace, actor
- Chad Gracey, drummer
- Steffi Graf, tennis player
- Sue Grafton, writer
- Aubrey "Drake" Graham, actor, rapper
- Bill Graham, rock music promoter/manager
- Billy Graham, evangelist
- Bob Graham, U.S. Senator, Governor of Florida
- Franklin Graham, evangelist
- Heather Graham, actor
- Katharine Graham, publisher
- Martha Graham, modern dancer, choreographer
- Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, writer
- Kelsey Grammer, actor
- Ariana Grande, actor, singer
- J.J. Grandville, artist
- Percy Granger, playwright
- Stewart Granger, actor
- Amy Grant, pop musician
- Cary Grant, actor
- Hugh Grant, actor
- Julia Dent Grant, First Lady
- Stéphane Grappelli, violinist, composer, songwriter
- Robert Graves, poet, writer
- Freddie Gray, murder victim
- Macy Gray, musician
- Spalding Gray, actor, monologuist
- Adolphus Greely, explorer
- Green Day, punk rock band
- Adolph Green, playwright and lyricist
- Chuck Green, tap dancer
- John Green, writer
- Tom Green, comedian, actor
- Ashley Greene, actor
- Lorne Greene, actor
- Paul Greengrass, filmmaker, director
- Greensboro Four, civil rights activists
- Alan Greenspan, economist
- Sydney Greenstreet, actor
- Germaine Greer, author
- Wayne Gretzky, hockey player
- Gregory XIII, pope
- Joel Grey, actor, singer, dancer
- Lady Jane Grey, royalty
- Zane Grey, writer
- Pam Grier, actor
- Kathy Griffin, comedian, actor
- Merv Griffin, television host, businessman
- Andy Griffith, actor
- D.W. Griffith, filmmaker
- Melanie Griffith, actor
- Nanci Griffith, musician, songwriter
- The Brothers Grimm, fabulists
- The Grinch, fictional villain
- Henry Grinnell, merchant, philanthropist
- Rupert Grint, actor
- John Grisham, writer
- Virgil Ivan
Gus
Grissom , astronaut - Josh Groban, singer
- Charles Grodin, actor, producer
- Matt Groening, cartoonist, writer
- Dave Grohl, drummer
- Andrew Grove, engineer, technology executive
- Jaime Grubbs, scandal figure
- Emm Gryner, singer, songwriter
- Vince Guaraldi, pianist, jazz musician, composer
- Fiorello La Guardia, political figure
- John Guare, playwright
- Kathy Keeton Guccione, publishing executive
- Juan Luis Guerra, songwriter, guitarist, singer
- Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director
- Che Guevara, revolutionary
- Meyer Guggenheim, industrialist, philanthropist
- Simon Guggenheim, business executive, philanthropist
- Solomon Robert Guggenheim, business executive, art collector
- Ursula K. Le Guin, writer
- Sir Alec Guinness, actor
- Sacha Guitry, actor, director, playwright, screenwriter
- Bryant Gumbel, television journalist
- Tim Gunn, fashion director
- Yana Gupta, model
- Rachel Gurney, actress
- José Alexandre
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Gusmão, President of East Timor - Johannes Gutenberg, printer
- Arlo Guthrie,
- Janet Guthrie, auto racer
- Woody Guthrie, singer, songwriter
- Steve Guttenberg, actor
- Thomas Guy, publisher, philanthropist
- The Tourist Guy, internet celebrity, fraud
- Joaquin Guzman, drug lord, convict
- Fred Gwynne, actor
- Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, actor
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