List of Famous people named George
George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley
George Thicknesse, later Thicknesse-Touchet, 19th Baron Audley was an English peer.
George Guțiu
George Guțiu was a bishop of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church.
George Willoughby, 7th Baron Willoughby of Parham
George Willoughby, 7th Baron Willoughby of Parham (1638–1674) was an English peer of the House of Lords.
George Wellesley
Admiral Sir George Greville Wellesley was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the capture of Acre during the Oriental Crisis in 1840 and, as Captain of HMS Cornwallis in the Baltic Fleet, he took part in the Bombardment of Sveaborg in August 1855 during the Crimean War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station and then Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron but was relieved of the latter post by a court-martial after an incident in which an armoured frigate, which had been under his command at the time, ran aground at Pearl Rock off Gibraltar in July 1871. He was appointed First Naval Lord in November 1877 and in that capacity he secured a considerable increase in naval construction, for example on the Colossus-class battleships, although some of these ships were of doubtful quality.
George Megalogenis
George Megalogenis is an Australian journalist, political commentator and author.
George McCaskey
George Halas McCaskey is the current chairman of the NFL's Chicago Bears, who replaced his brother Michael McCaskey as chairman in 2011.
George Rose
George Walter Rose was an English actor and singer in theatre and film.
George Mastras
George Mastras, Jr. is a Greek American author, screenwriter, director, and television producer. He has worked on all five seasons of the AMC drama Breaking Bad. He won the Pen USA Literary Award in 2009, won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2013 and 2014 as one of Breaking Bad's producers, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and won three Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards, for his work on the series. Mastras is also the author of the novel Fidali's Way.
George Reid
Sir George Reid is a Scottish politician who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire from February 1974 to 1979, a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 1999 to 2003 and member for the Ochil constituency from 2003 to 2007.
George de Cantilupe
George de Cantilupe (1252–1273) was Lord of Abergavenny from the Marches of South Wales under Edward I of England. He was born on the 29 March 1252 at Abergavenny Castle in Monmouthshire, the son of William III de Cantilupe and Eva de Braose. He married Margaret de Lacy, of the powerful de Lacy dynasty, daughter of Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln and his wife Alasia, daughter of Manfred III, Marquess of Saluzzo, and Beatrix of Savoy.