List of Famous people named Georges

Name Georges is among the most common names in France, Switzerland. Here are some famous Georgeses:

Georges Seurat

First Name Georges
Last Name Seurat
Born on December 2, 1859
Died on March 29, 1891 (aged 31)

Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism. While less famous than his paintings, Seurat's conté crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation.

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Georges Brassens

Georges Charles Brassens
First Name Georges
Last Name Brassens
Born on October 22, 1921
Died on October 29, 1981 (aged 60)
Born in France, Occitania

Georges Charles Brassens was a French singer-songwriter and poet.

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Georges St-Pierre

First Name Georges
Last Name St-Pierre
Born on May 19, 1981 (age 43)
Born in Canada, Quebec
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian former professional mixed martial artist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in mixed martial arts (MMA) history. St-Pierre was a two-division champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), having won titles in the welterweight and middleweight divisions.

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Georges Mandel

First Name Georges
Last Name Mandel
Born on June 5, 1885
Died on July 7, 1944 (aged 59)

Georges Mandel was a French journalist, politician, and French Resistance leader.

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Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau
First Name Georges
Last Name Clemenceau
Born on September 28, 1841
Died on November 24, 1929 (aged 88)

Georges Eugène Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A popular figure of the Independent Radicals, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, most notably successfully leading the country through the end of the First World War.

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Georges Pompidou

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou
First Name Georges
Last Name Pompidou
Born on July 5, 1911
Died on April 2, 1974 (aged 62)

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He previously was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968—the longest tenure in the position's history. He had long been a top aide to President Charles de Gaulle; as head of state, he was a moderate conservative who repaired France's relationship with the United States and maintained positive relations with the newly independent former colonies in Africa.

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Georges Picquart

First Name Georges
Last Name Picquart
Born on September 6, 1854
Died on January 18, 1914 (aged 59)
Born in France, Grand Est

Marie-Georges Picquart was a French Army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair.

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Georges Méliès

First Name Georges
Last Name Méliès
Born on December 8, 1861
Died on January 21, 1938 (aged 76)

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist, actor and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.

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Georges Wolinski

Georges David Wolinski
First Name Georges
Last Name Wolinski
Died on January 7, 2015 (aged 45)

Georges Wolinski was a French cartoonist and comics writer. He was killed on 7 January 2015 in a terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo along with other staff.

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Georges Lemaître

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître
First Name Georges
Last Name Lemaître
Born on July 17, 1894
Died on June 20, 1966 (aged 71)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first to theorize that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by an expanding universe, which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble. He first derived "Hubble's law", now called the Hubble–Lemaître law by the IAU, and published the first estimation of the Hubble constant in 1927, two years before Hubble's article. Lemaître also proposed the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom", and later calling it "the beginning of the world".

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