List of Famous people named Georg
Georg Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels
Georg Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby, was a German prince of the House of Wettin and the last count of Barby.
Georg Hans Madelung
Georg Hans Madelung was a German academic and aeronautical engineer. Madelung studied at several German Technical Universities before his service as a pilot in the First World War. After the war he lectured and worked in Germany and the United States, working on a number of significant aeronautical achievements. Madelung joined the Nazi Party in 1937, and during the Second World War was involved with aeronautical warfare research, including work with Wernher von Braun's rocket program. After the cessation of hostilities, Madelung resumed academic work in both Germany and the USA. Madelung's research at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland included the effects of high acceleration on the human body. He permanently returned to live in Germany from 1954 until his death in 1972. The second son of his marriage to Elisabeth Emma née Messerschmidt is Wilferd Madelung, a noted scholar in Islamic studies.
Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg
Georg III Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil, also known as Bauernjörg, was a Swabian League Army Commander in the German Peasants' War.
Prince Georg of Hesse-Darmstadt
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby was a German film director and screenwriter.
Georg von Gemmingen
Georg Mascolo
Georg Friesinger
Georg Friedrich Zundel
Georg Friedrich Zundel was a German painter, farmer and art patron.
Georg Brandes
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30, Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism, condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and also fantasy in literature. His literary goals were shared by some other authors, among them the Norwegian "realist" playwright Henrik Ibsen.