Biographies

Selected Biographies A to 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 Glück, 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 Gusmão, 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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