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 Gyles

First Name George
Last Name Gyles
Born on November 17, 1877
Died on February 5, 1959 (aged 81)

George Frederick Gyles was a Canadian sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

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George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford

First Name George
Last Name Rochford
Born on January 1, 1504
Died on May 17, 1536 (aged 32)

George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford was an English courtier and nobleman who played a prominent role in the politics of the early 1530s. He was the brother of Anne Boleyn, from 1533 the second wife of King Henry VIII, and thus the maternal uncle of Queen Elizabeth I. Following his father's promotion in the peerage in 1529 to Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond, he adopted his father's junior title Viscount Rochford as a courtesy title. He was accused of incest with his sister Anne during the period of her trial for high treason, as a result of which both were executed.

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George Pau-Langevin

First Name George
Last Name Pau-Langevin
Born on October 19, 1948 (age 77)
Born in France, Guadeloupe

George Pau-Langevin is a French lawyer and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the National Assembly from 2007 until 2012 and again since 2016.

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George Silk

First Name George
Last Name Silk
Born on November 17, 1916
Died on October 23, 2004 (aged 87)

George Silk was a photojournalist. He was born in Levin, New Zealand, and served as a photojournalist for Life for 30 years.

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George Alan Thomas

First Name George
Last Name Thomas
Born on June 14, 1881
Died on July 23, 1972 (aged 91)

Sir George Alan Thomas, 7th Baronet was a British badminton, tennis and chess player. He was twice British Chess Champion and a 21-time All-England Badminton champion. He also reached the quarterfinals of the singles and the semifinals of the men's tennis doubles at Wimbledon in 1911. Badminton's world men's team championships cup, equivalent to tennis' Davis Cup, is named Thomas Cup after him. Thomas lived most of his life in London and Godalming. He never married, so the hereditary Thomas baronetcy ended on his death.

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George Grosz

Georg Ehrenfried Groß
First Name George
Last Name Grosz
Born on July 26, 1893
Died on July 6, 1959 (aged 65)
Born in Germany

George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards.

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George F. Gao

First Name George
Last Name Gao
Born on November 15, 1961 (age 64)

Gao Fu, also known as George Fu Gao, is a Chinese virologist and immunologist. He has served as Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention since 2017 and Dean of the Savaid Medical School of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2015.

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George of Poděbrady

First Name George
Last Name Poděbrady
Born on April 23, 1420
Died on March 22, 1471 (aged 50)

George of Kunštát and Podebrady, also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad, was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled between years 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, however, moderate and tolerant toward the Catholic faith. His rule was marked by great efforts to preserve peace and tolerance between the Hussites and Catholics in the religiously divided Crown of Bohemia – hence his contemporary nicknames: "King of two peoples" and "Friend of peace".

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George Bähr

First Name George
Last Name Bähr
Born on March 15, 1666
Died on March 16, 1738 (aged 72)

George Bähr was a German architect.

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George L. Kelling

First Name George
Last Name Kelling
Born on August 21, 1935
Died on May 15, 2019 (aged 83)

George Lee Kelling was an American criminologist, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He previously taught at Northeastern University.

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