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 Robinson

George Ross Robinson
First Name George
Last Name Robinson
Born on September 12, 1997 (age 28)

George Ross Robinson is an English actor. He is known for his role as Isaac Goodwin in the Netflix series Sex Education.

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George Young

First Name George
Last Name Young
Died on October 22, 2017 (aged 47)

George Redburn Young was an Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a founding member of the bands the Easybeats and Flash and the Pan, and was one-half of the songwriting and production duo Vanda & Young with his long-time musical collaborator Harry Vanda.

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George I of Great Britain

First Name George
Last Name Britain
Born on May 28, 1660
Died on June 11, 1727 (aged 67)

George I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.

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George Blake

George Behar
First Name George
Last Name Blake
Born on November 11, 1922 (age 103)
Spy

George Blake was a spy with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union. He became a communist and decided to work for the MGB while a prisoner during the Korean War. Discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London in 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union. He was not one of the Cambridge Five spies, although he associated with Donald Maclean and Kim Philby after reaching the Soviet Union.

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George Fernandes

First Name George
Last Name Fernandes
Born on June 3, 1930
Died on January 29, 2019 (aged 88)
Born in India

George Mathew Fernandes was an Indian trade unionist, statesman, journalist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar for a short while, and a member of Lok Sabha for a very long period, starting from Bombay in 1967 but mostly representing Bihar. He was a key member of the Janata Dal and the founder of the Samata Party. He held several ministerial portfolios including communication, industry, railways, and defence.

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George II of Great Britain

First Name George
Last Name Britain
Died on October 25, 1760

George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.

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George Osborne

First Name George
Last Name Osborne
Born on May 23, 1971 (age 54)

George Gideon Oliver Osborne is a British politician and newspaper editor who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 in the Cameron government. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from 2001 to 2017. He has been editor-in-chief of the London Evening Standard since 2020.

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George Groves

First Name George
Last Name Groves
Born on March 26, 1988 (age 38)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

George Groves is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2018. He held the WBA (Super) super-middleweight title from 2017 to 2018, and previously the European, British, and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles between 2010 and 2014. As an amateur, Groves won the ABA middleweight title twice in 2007 and 2008.

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George Will

First Name George
Last Name Will
Born on May 4, 1941 (age 84)

George Frederick Will is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.

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George Washington Carver

First Name George
Last Name Carver
Born on January 1, 1864
Died on January 5, 1943 (aged 79)

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.

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