Biography
1803 peopleBiographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
George Gallup
Born: November 18, 1901 Jefferson, Iowa Died: July 27, 1984 Tschingel, Switzerland American professor, researcher, author, and organ...
Sonia Gandhi
December 9, 1947 • Orbassano, Italy Politician The story should have had a fairy-tale ending: a beautiful young girl meets her handsome...
Indira Gandhi
Born: November 19, 1917 Allahabad, India Died: October 31, 1984 New Delhi, India Indian politician and prime minister ...
Alan Garcia
President of Peru Born Alan Gabriel Ludwig Garcia Perez, May 23, 1949, in Lima, Peru; married; children: five. Education: Studied at the Pontifical C...
Amalia García
Governor and political party leader Born Amelia García Medina, October 6, 1951, in Zacatecas City, Mexico; daughter of Francisco García Estrada (a politician) and Concepción...
Judy Garland
Born: June 10, 1922 Grand Rapids, Minnesota Died: June 21, 1969 London, England American actress and singer Judy Garl...
Marcus Garvey
Born: August 17, 1887 St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica Died: June 10, 1940 London, England Jamaican activist and African nationalist ...
Bill Gates
Born: October 28, 1955 Seattle, Washington American businessman, chief executive officer, and software developer Microsoft cofounder and chief executiv...
Paul Gauguin
Born: June 7, 1848 Paris, France Died: May 8, 1903 Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia French artist, painter, and sculptor ...
Charles de Gaulle
Born: November 23, 1890 Lille, France Died: November 9, 1970 Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France French premier, general, and presiden...
Karl Friedrich Gauss
Born: April 30, 1777 Brunswick, Germany Died: February 23, 1855 Göttingen, Germany German mathematician The German ma...
Frank Gehry
February 28, 1929 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Architect Over the years many adjectives have been used to describe Frank Gehry's creation...
Hans Geiger
Born: September 30, 1882 Neustadt an-der-Haardt, Germany Died: September 24, 1945 Potsdam, Germany German experimental physicist ...
Theodor Geisel
Born: March 2, 1904 Springfield, Massachusetts Died: September 24, 1991 La Jolla, California American children's book author and ill...
Martha Gellhorn
American journalist Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) was one of the first female war correspondents ever and one of the best American war reporters of the twentieth century. Instead of ...
Julie Gerberding
August 22, 1955 • Estelline, South Dakota Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Julie Gerberding is a physician and an expert ...
Julie Gerberding
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Born Julie Louise Gerberding, August 22, 1955, in Estelline, SD; married David Rose (a computer software engineer); chil...
J. Paul Getty
Born: December 15, 1892 Minneapolis, Minnesota Died: June 6, 1976 London, England American businessman J. Paul Getty ...
Stan Getz
Of the great instrumental soloists who emerged from the revolution in jazz styles that grew in the years after World War II, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz (1927–1991) was perhaps the...
Carlos Ghosn
Brazilian-born executive Carlos Ghosn (born 1954) has become known as one of the automobile industry's great turnaround artists. Dubbed "le cost killer" and "the destroye...