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G Clark Gable, actor Milton Gabler, record producer Eva Gabor, actor Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor Gabriel, biblical figure, saint Peter Gabriel, rock musician Muammar Gaddafi, political leader Lady Gaga, singer, songwriter Yuri Gagarin, astronaut Neil Gaiman, writer Galadriel, fictional elf Ernesto Galarza, labor organizer, historian, professor, activist Johnny Galecki, actor Zach Galifianakis, actor, comedian Galileo Galilei, astronomer, mathematician Kyle Gallner, actor George Gallup, pollster James Galway, flutist Carlo Gambino, crime boss The Game, rapper Gandalf, fictional wizard Indira Gandhi, political figure Mohandas Gandhi, political Leader, activist James Gandolfini, actor Greta Garbo, actor Andy Garcia, actor Jerry Garcia, guitarist, rock musician Nina Garcia, fashion director Rupert Garcí­a, Artist Nomar Garciaparra, baseball player Ava Gardner, actor Andrew Garfield, actor Eugene Garfield, scientist, publisher Lucretia Garfield, U.S. First Lady Art Garfunkel, singer; actor Judy Garland, actor, singer Merrick Garland, jurist, Supreme Court nominee Erroll Garner, pianist, composer, jazz musician James Garner, actor Jennifer Garner, actor Janeane Garofalo, actor, comedian Pat Garrett, lawman Robert Garrett, financier William Lloyd Garrison, antislavery activist, publisher Greer Garson, actress Jennie Garth, actress Marcus Garvey, political Leader Richard Gasquet, tennis player Bill Gates, business personality Frederick T. Gates, clergyman, businessman Gareth Gates, singer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., writer, critic, educator, activist Robert M. Gates, government official Paul Gaugin, artist Sunil Gavaskar, cricketer Marvin Gaye, singer, songwriter Mitzi Gaynor, actress, dancer Leymah Gbowee, activist David Geffen, music producer, business personality, film producer Lou Gehrig, baseball player Frank Gehry, architect Ed Gein, murderer Timothy Geithner, government official Bob Geldof, rock musician, philanthropist Sarah Michelle Gellar, actor Uri Geller, paranormalist Martha Gellhorn , international correspondent Edmond Charles Genét, political figure David Lloyd George, political leader, Prime Minister of Great Britain King George I, royalty George II, royalty King George IV, royalty Prince George of Cambridge, royalty Eliza E. Mother George , Civil War nurse Frank Gerber, baby food manufacturer Richard Gere, actor Elbridge Gerry, U.S. Vice President, State Governor George Gershwin, composer Ira Gershwin, lyricist Ricky Gervais, actor, comedian Stan Getz, jazz musician, saxophonist Georgie Anne Geyer, foreign correspondent Yasmeen Ghauri, model Alice Ghostley, actress Laura San Giacomo, actor Paul Giamatti, actor Amadeo Peter Giannini, banker Robin Gibb, singer, songwriter Althea Gibson, tennis player Hoot Gibson, actor Mel Gibson, actor, filmmaker William Gibson, writer Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative (Dem., Ariz.) Kathie Lee Gifford, talk-show host H.R. Giger, artist William Gilbert, physician, physicist Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth, consulting engineer, household efficiency expert Vince Gill, country singer, songwriter Marie Gillain, actor Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, composer King Camp Gillette, inventor, business personality Gilligan, fictional character Vince Gilligan, TV producer, screenwriter Charles Gillingham, keyboards Bernard Gimbel , merchant, retailer Bruce Gimbel, merchant, retailer Isaac Gimbel, retailer Newt Gingrich, political figure Allen Ginsberg, poet Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Nikki Giovanni, poet, educator, activist, Writer Ginuwine, singer Stephen Girard, merchant, financier, philanthropist The Spice Girls, singers Lillian Gish, actor Rudy Giuliani, political figure Philip Glass, composer Jackie Gleason, actor, comedian John Glenn, Jr., astronaut, U.S. senator Scott Glenn, actor Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor of barbed wire Danny Glover, actor, director Louise Glí¼ck, poet Teddy Goalsevelt, superfan, icon Kurt Gödel, mathematician Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker Paulette Goddard, actress, philanthropist William Goddard, inventor Lady Godiva, protesting equestrian Godzilla, movie monster Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, scientist Whoopi Goldberg, comedienne, actress Jeff Goldblum, actor William Golding, writer Peter Goldmark, inventor Samuel Goldwyn, film producer Tatiana Golovin, tennis player E. H. Gombrich, scientist, writer Selena Gomez, actor Lue Gim Gong, horticulturist Patrisia Gonzales, journalist Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, filmmaker Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, U.S. congressman Jill Goodacre, model Jane Goodall, ethologist, conservationist Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor Benny Goodman, jazz musician, bandleader Ellen Goodman, columnist John Goodman, actor Mary Ann Dyer Goodnight , early settler, philanthropist Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of historical biographies Anson Conger Goodyear, industrialist, art collector Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the U.S.S.R. Nadine Gordimer, author Dexter Gordon, saxophonist, jazz musician Berry Gordy, Jr. , record company founder and executive Edward Gorey, writer, illustrator Gorillaz, animated characters Maxim Gorky, writer John Gorrie, physician, inventor of refrigeration and air-conditioning Marleen Gorris, director, screenwriter Jon Gosselin, TV personality Kate Gosselin, TV personality Louis Gossett, Jr., actor John Gotti, mobster Izabel Goulart, model Elliott Gould, actor John Gould, ornithologist Robert Goulet, singer, actor Betty Grable, actor Topher Grace, actor Chad Gracey, drummer Steffi Graf, tennis player Sue Grafton, writer Aubrey “Drake” Graham, actor, rapper Bill Graham, rock music promoter/manager Billy Graham, evangelist Bob Graham, U.S. Senator, Governor of Florida Franklin Graham, evangelist Heather Graham, actor Katharine Graham, publisher Martha Graham, modern dancer, choreographer Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, writer Kelsey Grammer, actor Ariana Grande, actor, singer J.J. Grandville, artist Percy Granger, playwright Stewart Granger, actor Amy Grant, pop musician Cary Grant, actor Hugh Grant, actor Julia Dent Grant, First Lady Stéphane Grappelli, violinist, composer, songwriter Robert Graves, poet, writer Freddie Gray, murder victim Macy Gray, musician Spalding Gray, actor, monologuist Adolphus Greely, explorer Green Day, punk rock band Adolph Green, playwright and lyricist Chuck Green, tap dancer John Green, writer Tom Green, comedian, actor Ashley Greene, actor Lorne Greene, actor Paul Greengrass, filmmaker, director Greensboro Four, civil rights activists Alan Greenspan, economist Sydney Greenstreet, actor Germaine Greer, author Wayne Gretzky, hockey player Gregory XIII, pope Joel Grey, actor, singer, dancer Lady Jane Grey, royalty Zane Grey, writer Pam Grier, actor Kathy Griffin, comedian, actor Merv Griffin, television host, businessman Andy Griffith, actor D.W. Griffith, filmmaker Melanie Griffith, actor Nanci Griffith, musician, songwriter The Brothers Grimm, fabulists The Grinch, fictional villain Henry Grinnell, merchant, philanthropist Rupert Grint, actor John Grisham, writer Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom , astronaut Josh Groban, singer Charles Grodin, actor, producer Matt Groening, cartoonist, writer Dave Grohl, drummer Andrew Grove, engineer, technology executive Jaime Grubbs, scandal figure Emm Gryner, singer, songwriter Vince Guaraldi, pianist, jazz musician, composer Fiorello La Guardia, political figure John Guare, playwright Kathy Keeton Guccione, publishing executive Juan Luis Guerra, songwriter, guitarist, singer Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director Che Guevara, revolutionary Meyer Guggenheim, industrialist, philanthropist Simon Guggenheim, business executive, philanthropist Solomon Robert Guggenheim, business executive, art collector Ursula K. Le Guin, writer Sir Alec Guinness, actor Sacha Guitry, actor, director, playwright, screenwriter Bryant Gumbel, television journalist Tim Gunn, fashion director Yana Gupta, model Rachel Gurney, actress José Alexandre Xanana Gusmí£o, President of East Timor Johannes Gutenberg, printer Arlo Guthrie, Janet Guthrie, auto racer Woody Guthrie, singer, songwriter Steve Guttenberg, actor Thomas Guy, publisher, philanthropist The Tourist Guy, internet celebrity, fraud Joaquin Guzman, drug lord, convict Fred Gwynne, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, actor Maggie Gyllenhaal, actor top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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  • Clark Gable, actor
  • Milton Gabler, record producer
  • Eva Gabor, actor
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor
  • Gabriel, biblical figure, saint
  • Peter Gabriel, rock musician
  • Muammar Gaddafi, political leader
  • Lady Gaga, singer, songwriter
  • Yuri Gagarin, astronaut
  • Neil Gaiman, writer
  • Galadriel, fictional elf
  • Ernesto Galarza, labor organizer, historian, professor, activist
  • Johnny Galecki, actor
  • Zach Galifianakis, actor, comedian
  • Galileo Galilei, astronomer, mathematician
  • Kyle Gallner, actor
  • George Gallup, pollster
  • James Galway, flutist
  • Carlo Gambino, crime boss
  • The Game, rapper
  • Gandalf, fictional wizard
  • Indira Gandhi, political figure
  • Mohandas Gandhi, political Leader, activist
  • James Gandolfini, actor
  • Greta Garbo, actor
  • Andy Garcia, actor
  • Jerry Garcia, guitarist, rock musician
  • Nina Garcia, fashion director
  • Rupert Garcí­a, Artist
  • Nomar Garciaparra, baseball player
  • Ava Gardner, actor
  • Andrew Garfield, actor
  • Eugene Garfield, scientist, publisher
  • Lucretia Garfield, U.S. First Lady
  • Art Garfunkel, singer; actor
  • Judy Garland, actor, singer
  • Merrick Garland, jurist, Supreme Court nominee
  • Erroll Garner, pianist, composer, jazz musician
  • James Garner, actor
  • Jennifer Garner, actor
  • Janeane Garofalo, actor, comedian
  • Pat Garrett, lawman
  • Robert Garrett, financier
  • William Lloyd Garrison, antislavery activist, publisher
  • Greer Garson, actress
  • Jennie Garth, actress
  • Marcus Garvey, political Leader
  • Richard Gasquet, tennis player
  • Bill Gates, business personality
  • Frederick T. Gates, clergyman, businessman
  • Gareth Gates, singer
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr., writer, critic, educator, activist
  • Robert M. Gates, government official
  • Paul Gaugin, artist
  • Sunil Gavaskar, cricketer
  • Marvin Gaye, singer, songwriter
  • Mitzi Gaynor, actress, dancer
  • Leymah Gbowee, activist
  • David Geffen, music producer, business personality, film producer
  • Lou Gehrig, baseball player
  • Frank Gehry, architect
  • Ed Gein, murderer
  • Timothy Geithner, government official
  • Bob Geldof, rock musician, philanthropist
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar, actor
  • Uri Geller, paranormalist
  • Martha Gellhorn , international correspondent
  • Edmond Charles Genét, political figure
  • David Lloyd George, political leader, Prime Minister of Great Britain
  • King George I, royalty
  • George II, royalty
  • King George IV, royalty
  • Prince George of Cambridge, royalty
  • Eliza E. Mother George , Civil War nurse
  • Frank Gerber, baby food manufacturer
  • Richard Gere, actor
  • Elbridge Gerry, U.S. Vice President, State Governor
  • George Gershwin, composer
  • Ira Gershwin, lyricist
  • Ricky Gervais, actor, comedian
  • Stan Getz, jazz musician, saxophonist
  • Georgie Anne Geyer, foreign correspondent
  • Yasmeen Ghauri, model
  • Alice Ghostley, actress
  • Laura San Giacomo, actor
  • Paul Giamatti, actor
  • Amadeo Peter Giannini, banker
  • Robin Gibb, singer, songwriter
  • Althea Gibson, tennis player
  • Hoot Gibson, actor
  • Mel Gibson, actor, filmmaker
  • William Gibson, writer
  • Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative (Dem., Ariz.)
  • Kathie Lee Gifford, talk-show host
  • H.R. Giger, artist
  • William Gilbert, physician, physicist
  • Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth, consulting engineer, household efficiency expert
  • Vince Gill, country singer, songwriter
  • Marie Gillain, actor
  • Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, composer
  • King Camp Gillette, inventor, business personality
  • Gilligan, fictional character
  • Vince Gilligan, TV producer, screenwriter
  • Charles Gillingham, keyboards
  • Bernard Gimbel , merchant, retailer
  • Bruce Gimbel, merchant, retailer
  • Isaac Gimbel, retailer
  • Newt Gingrich, political figure
  • Allen Ginsberg, poet
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
  • Nikki Giovanni, poet, educator, activist, Writer
  • Ginuwine, singer
  • Stephen Girard, merchant, financier, philanthropist
  • The Spice Girls, singers
  • Lillian Gish, actor
  • Rudy Giuliani, political figure
  • Philip Glass, composer
  • Jackie Gleason, actor, comedian
  • John Glenn, Jr., astronaut, U.S. senator
  • Scott Glenn, actor
  • Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor of barbed wire
  • Danny Glover, actor, director
  • Louise Glí¼ck, poet
  • Teddy Goalsevelt, superfan, icon
  • Kurt Gödel, mathematician
  • Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker
  • Paulette Goddard, actress, philanthropist
  • William Goddard, inventor
  • Lady Godiva, protesting equestrian
  • Godzilla, movie monster
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, scientist
  • Whoopi Goldberg, comedienne, actress
  • Jeff Goldblum, actor
  • William Golding, writer
  • Peter Goldmark, inventor
  • Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
  • Tatiana Golovin, tennis player
  • E. H. Gombrich, scientist, writer
  • Selena Gomez, actor
  • Lue Gim Gong, horticulturist
  • Patrisia Gonzales, journalist
  • Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, filmmaker
  • Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, U.S. congressman
  • Jill Goodacre, model
  • Jane Goodall, ethologist, conservationist
  • Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
  • Benny Goodman, jazz musician, bandleader
  • Ellen Goodman, columnist
  • John Goodman, actor
  • Mary Ann Dyer Goodnight , early settler, philanthropist
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of historical biographies
  • Anson Conger Goodyear, industrialist, art collector
  • Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the U.S.S.R.
  • Nadine Gordimer, author
  • Dexter Gordon, saxophonist, jazz musician
  • Berry Gordy, Jr. , record company founder and executive
  • Edward Gorey, writer, illustrator
  • Gorillaz, animated characters
  • Maxim Gorky, writer
  • John Gorrie, physician, inventor of refrigeration and air-conditioning
  • Marleen Gorris, director, screenwriter
  • Jon Gosselin, TV personality
  • Kate Gosselin, TV personality
  • Louis Gossett, Jr., actor
  • John Gotti, mobster
  • Izabel Goulart, model
  • Elliott Gould, actor
  • John Gould, ornithologist
  • Robert Goulet, singer, actor
  • Betty Grable, actor
  • Topher Grace, actor
  • Chad Gracey, drummer
  • Steffi Graf, tennis player
  • Sue Grafton, writer
  • Aubrey “Drake” Graham, actor, rapper
  • Bill Graham, rock music promoter/manager
  • Billy Graham, evangelist
  • Bob Graham, U.S. Senator, Governor of Florida
  • Franklin Graham, evangelist
  • Heather Graham, actor
  • Katharine Graham, publisher
  • Martha Graham, modern dancer, choreographer
  • Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, writer
  • Kelsey Grammer, actor
  • Ariana Grande, actor, singer
  • J.J. Grandville, artist
  • Percy Granger, playwright
  • Stewart Granger, actor
  • Amy Grant, pop musician
  • Cary Grant, actor
  • Hugh Grant, actor
  • Julia Dent Grant, First Lady
  • Stéphane Grappelli, violinist, composer, songwriter
  • Robert Graves, poet, writer
  • Freddie Gray, murder victim
  • Macy Gray, musician
  • Spalding Gray, actor, monologuist
  • Adolphus Greely, explorer
  • Green Day, punk rock band
  • Adolph Green, playwright and lyricist
  • Chuck Green, tap dancer
  • John Green, writer
  • Tom Green, comedian, actor
  • Ashley Greene, actor
  • Lorne Greene, actor
  • Paul Greengrass, filmmaker, director
  • Greensboro Four, civil rights activists
  • Alan Greenspan, economist
  • Sydney Greenstreet, actor
  • Germaine Greer, author
  • Wayne Gretzky, hockey player
  • Gregory XIII, pope
  • Joel Grey, actor, singer, dancer
  • Lady Jane Grey, royalty
  • Zane Grey, writer
  • Pam Grier, actor
  • Kathy Griffin, comedian, actor
  • Merv Griffin, television host, businessman
  • Andy Griffith, actor
  • D.W. Griffith, filmmaker
  • Melanie Griffith, actor
  • Nanci Griffith, musician, songwriter
  • The Brothers Grimm, fabulists
  • The Grinch, fictional villain
  • Henry Grinnell, merchant, philanthropist
  • Rupert Grint, actor
  • John Grisham, writer
  • Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom , astronaut
  • Josh Groban, singer
  • Charles Grodin, actor, producer
  • Matt Groening, cartoonist, writer
  • Dave Grohl, drummer
  • Andrew Grove, engineer, technology executive
  • Jaime Grubbs, scandal figure
  • Emm Gryner, singer, songwriter
  • Vince Guaraldi, pianist, jazz musician, composer
  • Fiorello La Guardia, political figure
  • John Guare, playwright
  • Kathy Keeton Guccione, publishing executive
  • Juan Luis Guerra, songwriter, guitarist, singer
  • Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director
  • Che Guevara, revolutionary
  • Meyer Guggenheim, industrialist, philanthropist
  • Simon Guggenheim, business executive, philanthropist
  • Solomon Robert Guggenheim, business executive, art collector
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, writer
  • Sir Alec Guinness, actor
  • Sacha Guitry, actor, director, playwright, screenwriter
  • Bryant Gumbel, television journalist
  • Tim Gunn, fashion director
  • Yana Gupta, model
  • Rachel Gurney, actress
  • José Alexandre Xanana Gusmí£o, President of East Timor
  • Johannes Gutenberg, printer
  • Arlo Guthrie,
  • Janet Guthrie, auto racer
  • Woody Guthrie, singer, songwriter
  • Steve Guttenberg, actor
  • Thomas Guy, publisher, philanthropist
  • The Tourist Guy, internet celebrity, fraud
  • Joaquin Guzman, drug lord, convict
  • Fred Gwynne, actor
  • Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal, actor

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