List of Famous people named George

Name George is among the most common names in USA, England, Canada, Australia. Often it's a shorthand for Georg. Similar names: Georg, Georg, Giorgio, Gyorgy, Georgy, Gheorghe, Georgia, Georgi, Giorgi, Giorgia, Georgie, Georgiy, Gyorgyi, Georgii. Here are some famous Georges:

George Lusztig

First Name George
Last Name Lusztig
Born on May 20, 1946 (age 80)

George Lusztig is an American-Romanian mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor with the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.

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George Alexandrovich Koldun

First Name George
Last Name Koldun
Born on December 9, 1976 (age 49)
Born in Belarus
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George Dance the Younger

First Name George
Last Name Younger
Born on April 1, 1741
Died on January 14, 1825 (aged 83)

George Dance the younger, RA was an English architect and surveyor as well as a portraitist.

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George F. Smoot

First Name George
Last Name Smoot
Born on February 20, 1945 (age 81)

George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and one of two contestants to win the US$1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

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George Andrews

First Name George
Last Name Andrews
Born on December 4, 1938 (age 87)

George Eyre Andrews is an American mathematician working in special functions, number theory, analysis and combinatorics.

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George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon

First Name George
Last Name Tryon
Born on May 15, 1871
Died on November 24, 1940 (aged 69)

Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years.

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George Abbott

First Name George
Last Name Abbott
Born on June 25, 1887
Died on January 31, 1995 (aged 107)

George Francis Abbott was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned nine decades.

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George W. Jenkins

First Name George
Last Name Jenkins
Born on September 29, 1907
Died on April 8, 1996 (aged 88)

George Washington Jenkins Jr. was an American businessman, who founded Publix Super Markets. As of 2016, the employee-owned, privately held corporation included 1,100 stores in the Southeastern United States with 170,000 employees and sales of $32 billion.

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George Clinton

First Name George
Last Name Clinton
Born on July 22, 1941 (age 85)

George Edward Clinton is an American musician, singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer. His Parliament-Funkadelic collective developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music during the 1970s that drew on science fiction, outlandish fashion, psychedelia, and surreal humor. He launched his solo career with the 1982 album Computer Games and would go on to influence 1990s hip hop and G-funk.

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George Mills

First Name George
Last Name Mills
Born on October 1, 1896
Died on December 8, 1972 (aged 76)

George Ramsay Acland Mills was a British preparatory schoolmaster and an author of children's adventure stories. His whimsical tales often revolve around boys' preparatory schools in Great Britain and often involve sports like cricket, pranks, and mysteries, as well as a beloved pet bulldog, Uggles. He was born in Bude, Cornwall and died in Devonshire.

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