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George Katt George Katt (born George Katsipoutis on February 27, 1975 in Astoria, Queens, New York, USA) is a Greek American actor and producer. He has played the recurrent role of Zack on Showtime's sitcom Rude Awakening.
George Kell George Clyde Kell (born August 23, 1922 in Swifton, Arkansas) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and right-handed batter who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1943-1946), Detroit Tigers (1947-52), Boston Red Sox (1952-54), Chicago White Sox (1954-56) and Baltimore Orioles (1956-57) in the American League. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he was regarded as the best third baseman in the AL.
George Kelly (baseball player) George Lange Kelly September 10, 1895 , San Francisco, California - October 13, 1984 , Burlingame, California), nicknamed "Highpockets", was a Major League Baseball player known for his solid all-round hitting and slick fielding at first base.
George Kennedy George Kennedy (born February 18, 1925 in New York City, New York) is an Academy-Award winning actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is widely familiar as Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s, or more recently as Captain Ed Hocken from the Naked Gun trilogy.
George Kenney George Churchill Kenney (August 6, 1889 - August 9, 1977) was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II. He was commander of the Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) from August 1942 until 1945.
George Kern George Kern, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, was a leading New York corporate lawyer in the 1970's and 80's. After graduating from Princeton (1947) and Yale Law School (1952), Kern joined Sullivan & Cromwell where he became a partner in 1960.
George Kettmann George Wilhelm Kettmann (Amsterdam, 12 december 1898 - Roosendaal, 10 february 1970) was a Dutch poet, writer, journalist and publisher. Between 1933 en 1941 hij was editor in chief of Volk en Vaderland (People and Fatherland), the weekly journal of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands, the movement of Anton Mussert. From 1932 till 1945 he was the owner of the best known National Socialist publishing house in the Netherlands: De Amsterdamsche Keurkamer, where in 1939 he published the Dutch translation of Hitlers Mein Kampf.
George Keyt George Keyt (1901-1993) was born in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and educated at Trinity College (Kandy), an elite colonial school in the British Public School tradition. He is often considered Sri Lanka's most distinguished and renowned modern painter.
George Khoury George Elias Khoury was an Israeli victim of Palestinian violence who was murdered on March 19 2004 whilst jogging in the neighborhood of French Hill in Jerusalem. He was a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
George King (Aetherius Society) George King (January 23, 1919 - July 12, 1997) was born in Shropshire, England. As a child he discovered that he ostensibly had the ability to heal through the radiation of spiritual power, a discovery that was to influence the rest of his life.
George King (botanist) Sir George King (1840-1904), was a British botanist appointed superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890. King was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1901.
George King (film director) George King (1899 - 1966) was an English actors' agent, film director, producer and screenplay writer. He helmed several of Tod Slaughter's melodramas, including 1936's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
George Kingston (hockey) George Kingston (born August 20, 1939 in Biggar, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian ice hockey coach. He is best known as the long-time coach of the University of Calgary hockey team, as well as coaching the Canadian national men's ice hockey team at the 1994 Ice Hockey World Championships and being the first head coach of the San Jose Sharks.
George Kirby George Kirby (June 8, 1923 – September 30, 1995) was an American comedian, singer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the first African-American comedians to begin to appeal to white as well as black audiences during the height of the Civil Rights era, appearing between 1966 and 1972 on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
George Kish Professor George Kish (1914 - 1989), was an internationally recognized authority known for work in geography and the history of cartography. His professional papers are held at the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor was affiliated with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for 46 years as a teacher and researcher.
George Kistiakowsky George Bogdan Kistiakowsky (November 18, 1900 – December 7, 1982) was a chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, he attended private schools in Kyiv and Moscow until the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917.
George Klacsanzky George Klacsanzky (1956-2003) was an American poet, musician, artist, philosopher, and humanitarian. Founder and editor of Haiku Zasshi Zo, the first Haiku Journal on the west coast of the United States, which contributed in significance to the American Haiku Movement of the 1980's.
George Klein (comics) George Klein (died 1969) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist whose career stretched from the 1930s and 1940s' Golden Age of comic books. He was best known as an inker for DC Comics, where he was an integral part of the Superman family of titles from 1955 to 1968, and for Marvel Comics, where he was the generally recognized, uncredited inker on industry legend Jack Kirby's pencil art for the landmark Fantastic Four #1.
George Klippert Everett George Klippert (1926 - 1996) was the last person in Canada to be arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for homosexuality before its legalization in 1969; the reforms which led to Canadian legalization of homosexuality were a direct result of the Klippert case.
George Koltanowski George Koltanowski (September 17, 1903–February 5, 2000) was a Belgian chess player and promoter. Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on September 20, 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world.
George Konrote Major General Jioji Konousi Konrote, better known as George Konrote, is a retired Major-General of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and a former diplomat. From May to December 2006, he was a Fijian Cabinet Minister.
George Koukou George Koukou (born 25 May 1945) was acting Speaker of the National Transitional Legislative Assembly of Liberia from 17 March 2005 to January 2006. Originally from Nimba County, he now resides in the capital city of Monrovia.
George Kuchar George Kuchar (born 31 August 1942, New York City) is an American film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic, playful use of no-talent actors, plotless plots, and themeless themes. Trained as a commercial artist in a vocational high school, he drew weather maps for a local news show.
George Kunz George Kunz (born July 5, 1947) was an offensive lineman in the National Football League from 1969-1978 & 1980 with the Atlanta Falcons 1969-1974 and Baltimore Colts 1975-1978 & 1980. Kunz was selected in the 1st Round of the 1969 NFL Draft by the Falcons with the 2nd overall selection after a stellar collegiate career at Notre Dame where he was a consensus All-American his senior season in 1968.
George L. Berry George L. Berry (September 12,1882–December 4,1948) was president of the International Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America from 1907 to 1948 and a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee, 1937 - 1938.
George L. Brown The Honorable George Leslie Brown was born on July 1, 1926, in Lawrence, Kansas. Growing up on a farm in Kansas, Brown was a star athlete in basketball, football and track before graduating from Lawrence Liberty Memorial High School in 1944.
George L. Cobb George Linus Cobb (August 31 1886 - December 25, 1942). He was a prolific composer best known for ragtime, including both instrumental compositions and ragtime songs, although he did produce other works including marches and waltzes.
George L. Fox George L. Fox (15 March 1900 - 3 February 1943) was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives when the troopship USAT Dorchester was hit by a torpedo and sank on February 3, 1943 during the battle of the Atlantic during World War Two.
George L. Rives George Lockhart Rives (1849–1917) served as United States Assistant Secretary of State 1887 to 1889. He also wrote the two volume book The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848: A History of the Relations between the Two Countries from the Independence of Mexico to the Close of the War with the United States which he published in 1913.
George LaFrance George LaFrance (born September 24, 1965) is a former Arena Football League offensive specialist. In a career lasting fifteen years, he played for the Detroit Drive, Tampa Bay Storm, and the New Jersey Red Dogs.
George Laird Shoup George Laird Shoup (born June 24, 1836 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania – died December 21, 1904 in Boise, Idaho) was the first Governor of Idaho, serving a short time after statehood in 1890 before becoming one of the state's first United States Senators.
George Lam George Lam Chi Cheung (Chinese : ćž—ĺ祥) born October 12, 1947, is a popular veteran singer in Hong Kong. George studied at the Diocesan Boys' School in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and lived in England (studied at Dover College) and the United States (Oakland, California) for many years before returning to Hong Kong.
George Lambert (VC) George Lambert (December 1819-15 February 1860) born in Markethill, County Armagh he was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
George Lamond George Lamond (born George Garcia on February 25,1967 in Washington, DC), is an American Freestyle music singer of Puerto Rican descent. George began singing backup for various artists before landing a solo deal with Columbia Records.
George Landis Arboretum The George Landis Arboretum consists of 80 ha (200 acres), 16 ha (40 acres) of which are devoted to the collections and gardens overlooking the Schoharie Valley near Esperance, New York, USA. It contains approximately 2,000 labeled specimens, with plantings of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials from around the world.
George Lane (technical analysis) George Lane,( 1939 - July 7, 2004) was a name well known in the technical analysis community The stochastic oscillator, which he made popular but not invented, is one of the most popular indicators in use today.
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood KBE (born 7 February 1923), styled The Hon. George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, is the elder son of the 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), and Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary.
George Latimer George Latimer (born 1935 in New York) was the mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's capital city, from 1976 until 1990. A member of the DFL and a labor lawyer by profession, the bearded Latimer was known for his redevelopment of Saint Paul's downtown core, serving as mayor during a period when St.
George Lawson (UK politician) George McArthur Lawson (11 July 1906 - 3 July 1978) was a British Labour politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Motherwell from a by-election in 1954 until his retirement at the October 1974 general election.
George Le Hunte Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte (1852–1925) was a Governor of South Australia from 1 July 1903 until 18 February 1909, soon after federation of Australia. Prior to that, he had served as Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea and President of Dominica.
George Leake (merchant) George Leake (1786Some sources say 1785 in England - 1849 in Perth, Western Australia) was a wealthy landholder in the early days of the Swan River Colony. Backed with considerable assets, Leake supported many of the early settlers of the colony who were struggling financially.
George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield PC (21 May 1718–17 September 1772) was a British politician and peer. He was made a Privy Counsellor and Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1762, holding both honours until death.
George Leonard George Leonard (July 3, 1729–July 26, 1819) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Norton, Massachusetts. Besides service on state court benches and in both houses of the state legislature, he represented Massachusetts in the U.
George Leonard Staunton Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Baronet (10 April 1737 – 14 January 1801) was a botanist and employee of the East India Company in the late eighteenth century. He was the first Westerner to observe the use of orange flavouring in tea (in what was to became Earl Grey tea) in China in 1793.
George Leslie Drewry George Leslie Drewry (3 November1894- 3 August 1918) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
George Leslie Mackay George Leslie Mackay DD (ĺ•ĺŹˇç† or 馬ĺ•; PeĚŤh-oÄ“-jÄ«: Kai SĹ«i-lĂ or Má-kai, (March 21, 1844 ~ June 2, 1901), was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan, China. He served with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission.
George Lesser George Lesser (born 1932) was a member of the Tyrones, a popular Philadelphia rock and roll group of the 50s that recorded a number of hit songs including "Blast Off" and "I'm Shook" and appeared singing "Blast Off" in the film Let's Rock. Part of Bill Haley's talent and booking stable, the Tyrones recorded a number of Haley-published songs.
George Lewis (clarinetist) George Lewis (13 July, 1900 – 31 December, 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in his later decades of life. (Some sources give 1969 as the year of his death, but see Lewis' obituary in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, cited on page 277 in Tom Bethell's George Lewis: A Jazzman From New Orleans, published in 1977 by University of California Press.
George Lewis Rickard George Lewis "Tex" Rickard (January 2, 1870 - June 5, 1929) was an American boxing promoter, and founder of the New York Rangers National Hockey League (NHL) franchise. During the 1920s, Tex Rickard was the leading promoter of the day, and he has been compared to P.
George Leybourne Joe Sanders (1842–1884), better known as George Leybourne, was an English music hall performer. Often nicknamed "Champagne Charlie", Leybourne is best-remembered as the lyricist for "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze".
George Lincoln Goodale George Lincoln Goodale (August 3, 1839–April 12, 1923) was an American botanist, born at Saco, Maine. He graduated at Amherst College in 1860 and at Harvard Medical School in 1863, after which he practiced at Portland, Me.
George Lippard George Lippard (1822-1854) was a brilliant 19th-century American novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, and labour organizer. Almost completely unremembered today, during the decade between 1844 and 1854 he was one of the most widely-read authors in the United States.
George Little (football coach) George E. Little (May 27, 1889 - February 23, 1957) was an American football coach best known for serving as head coach for University of Cincinnati, Miami University, University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin.
George Llewelyn-Davies George Llewelyn-Davies (July 20, 1893-March 15, 1915) was the eldest of the Llewelyn-Davies family, and was one of the 'Lost Boys' who inspired the concept of the Peter Pan book. He was killed in action in Flanders during World War I, shot in the head.
George Locke George Herbert Locke (March 29, 1870 - January 28, 1937) was a Canadian librarian. He was chief librarian of the Toronto Public Library from 1908 until his death, a time of great expansion in that library system.
George Logan George Logan (September 9, 1753–April 9, 1821) was an American physician, farmer, and politician from Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He served in the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate.
George Lohmann George Lohmann (born June 2, 1865 in London, died December 1, 1901 in Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa) is regarded as one the greatest bowlers of all time. Statistically, he holds the lowest lifetime Test bowling average among bowlers with more than ten wickets and he has the second highest peak rating for a bowler in the ICC ratings.
George London (baritone) George London (May 30, 1920–March 24, 1985) was a Canadian-born concert and operatic bass-baritone. After extensive concertising with tenor Mario Lanza and soprano Frances Yeend as part of the Bel Canto Trio in 1947-48, London was engaged by the Vienna State Opera, with whom he scored his first major success in 1949.
George Lott George Lott (October 16, 1906 - December 2, 1991) was an American tennis player and tennis coach who was born in Springfield, Illinois, United States. Lott is mostly remembered as being one of the greatest doubles players of all time.
George Lucas George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic Star Wars saga and Indiana Jones films - a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg.
George Lucas in Love George Lucas in Love is a student short film that started attracting notice in June 1999 when it was passed around Hollywood offices as a filmmaker's "calling card". It is a homage and spoof of both Star Wars and Shakespeare in Love.
George Lutz George Lee Lutz (1947-May 8, 2006) was a man famous for being the inspiration of The Amityville Horror. He, his wife Kathy Lutz and Kathy's three children Billy, Michael and Chelsea were said to have experienced similar events in their home.
George Luz George Luz (1921 - 1998) was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division. Luz was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Rick Gomez.
George Lyman Kittredge George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860–July 23, 1941) was a scholar of English literature and a professor at Harvard University. Between his position at Harvard and his editions of major literary figures, notably William Shakespeare, he was one of the most influential American literary critics of the early 20th century.
George Lyon George Lyon (born 16 July 1956 in Rothesay) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute, and Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (January 17 1709 – August 22 1773), known as Sir George Lyttelton, Baronet between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts. He was one of the politicians who opposed Robert Walpole as a member of the Tory party in the 1730s.
George M. Bache George Mifflin Bache (November 12, 1840 - February 11, 1896) was an officer in the United States Navy, fighting on the Union side in the American Civil War and continuing to serve for a decade after the war's end.
George M. Cohan George Michael Cohan (July 3 or July 4, 1878 – November 5, 1942) was a United States entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, director, and producer of Irish descent. Known as "the man who owned Broadway" in the decade before World War I, he is considered the father of American musical comedy.
George M. Robeson George Maxwell Robeson (March 16 1829 – September 27 1897) was a American Republican Party politician and lawyer from New Jersey who served as a Union army general during the American Civil War, and then as Secretary of the Navy during the Grant administration.
George Maciunas George Maciunas (November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was an American artist who was a founding member of the Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Maciunas is generally credited with having invented the name "Fluxus.
George MacKinnon Wrong George MacKinnon Wrong (25 June 1860 – 29 June 1948) was a Canadian clergyman and historian. Born at Grovesend in Elgin County, Canada West (now Ontario), he was ordained in the Anglican priesthood in 1883 after attending Wycliffe College.
George MacLeod The Very Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, Baron MacLeod of Fuinary, MC DD (June 17, 1895 – June 27, 1991), was a Scottish soldier and clergyman; one of the best known, most influential and unconventional Church of Scotland ministers of the 20th century.
George Maduro George John Lionel Maduro (born Willemstad (Curaçao), July 15 1916; died Dachau concentration camp, February 9 1945) was a Dutch student that served as an officer in the 1940 Battle of the Netherlands and distinguished himself in the attack on The Hague.
George Main Stakes The George Main Stakes is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse race at Weight for Age run over a distance of 1600 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney in September. The race is named after George Main, a former chairman of the Australian Jockey Club.
George Malakov George Vasilyevich Malakov (Ukrainian:Георгій ВаŃильович Малаков, Russian:Георгий ВаŃильевич Малаков) (1928 – 1979) was a Ukrainian artist from Kiev, Ukraine (then the Ukrainian SSR.) He specialized in engraving.
George Malcolm George John Huntley Malcolm (August 20, 1865–1931) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal from 1909 to 1922, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Tobias C.
George Malcolm (musician) George Malcolm (28 February, 1917–10 October, 1997) was a pioneering harpsichordist, introducing many people to this instrument through his records and live performances. Like Wanda Landowska, he favoured rather large harpsichords which now are seen as inauthentic for Baroque music, although the instruments he used were more authentic than hers.
George Malcolm Brown Professor Sir (George) Malcolm Brown FRS (October 5, 1925 - March 27, 1997) was one of the most respected geologists of the second half of the Twentieth Century. His formidable reputation as an igneous petrologist enabled him to become one of the few scientists invited by NASA to work on the moon rock samples recovered from the Apollo 11 lunar mission.
George Mallory George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8-9 June 1924) was a British mountaineer who took part in the first three British Expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. During the third expedition, in 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine both disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge during (or perhaps after completing) the first ascent of the world's highest mountain in June of that year.
George Manley George Edmond Manley (born September 17, 1965 in Sacramento, California) is an American voice artist and screenplay writer. He attended San Jose State University and trained at San Francisco's Voice One Studio and with Braintracks Audio's Nancy Wolfson.
George Manook George Manook (Gevork Manuch Merchell/Manukian Manuchariants), an Armenian merchant of Java, was among the richest figures in the Dutch East Indies, and on several occasions lent large sums of money to the Dutch government. He left behind a fortune of five million guilders when he died.
George Marsaglia George Marsaglia is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for developing the Diehard tests of randomness, a series of tests which determine whether or not a sequence of numbers do have the statistical properties that could be expected from a random sequence.
George Martin Sir George Martin CBE (born 3 January 1926 in Highbury, London, England) is sometimes referred to as "the fifth Beatle", a title that he owes to his work as producer of almost all of The Beatles' records. In recognition of his services to the music industry and popular culture, he was made a Knight Bachelor of the British Empire in 1996.
George Martin (NFL) George Dwight Martin (born February 16, 1953, in Greenville, SC) is a former NFL football defensive end who played his entire career for the New York Giants (1975-1988), missing only six games in those 14 years (not counting games not played in because of strikes). He played college football for Oregon in the then Pacific-8 Conference and was drafted by the Giants in the 11th round in 1975 (262nd pick overall).
George Mason University George Mason University, also known as GMU or simply Mason, is a large public university in the United States. It is located in Northern Virginia, with its main campus in Fairfax and additional campuses in Arlington and Prince William County.
George Mason University College Democrats The George Mason University College Democrats is an association of Democratic youths dedicated to the election of Democrats to regional and national offices, the adoption of progressive liberal values (especially in the traditionally conservative state of Virginia, where George Mason University is located), and the involvement of young people in the electoral process.
George Massey Tunnel The George Massey Tunnel (also known as the Deas Island Tunnel; often referred to as Massey Tunnel) is a highway traffic tunnel in the Greater Vancouver region of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located approximately 20 kilometers south of the city centre of Vancouver, and approximately 30 kilometers north of the Canada-U.
George Mathewson Sir George Mathewson holds the position of Chairman at the Royal Bank of Scotland and has held this position during the years which saw RBS plc grow from a medium sized retail bank to a major player on the world stage. This growth culminated in the purchase of the National Westminster Bank p.
George Mavrothalassitis George Mavrothalassitis is a chef and restauranteur known as one of the cofounders of Hawaii Regional Cuisine in the early 1990s. Mavrothalassitis is particularly known for exquisite individual pairings of wines with each dish in a multicourse meal.
George Mayfield George Mayfield (1779-1848) was an interpreter and spy for General Andrew Jackson during the Creek War of 1813-1814. He was most notable for his adventurous life and dual existence between the white and Native American nations of North America at a pivotal moment in the history of the United States.
George Müller George Müller (September 27, 1805 – March 10, 1898), a Christian evangelist and coordinator of orphanages in Bristol, England, cared for a total of over 100,000 orphans in his life. He was well-known for his constant faith in God and for providing an education to the children under his care, to the point where he was accused of raising the poor above their natural station in life.
George McBride George Florian "Pinch" McBride (November 20, 1880 - July 2, 1973) was a former shortstop for the Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Washington Senators from 1901 to 1920.
George McCloud George McCloud (born May 27, 1967 in Daytona Beach, Florida), is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Indiana Pacers in the 1st round (7th overall) of the 1989 NBA Draft. A 6'6" guard-forward from Florida State University, McCloud played 12 years in the NBA from 1989-2002.
George McFarland George Robert Phillips McFarland (October 2, 1928 – June 30, 1993) was an American actor most famous for his childhood role as Spanky in the depression era children's comedy movie series Our Gang, also known as the Little Rascals.
George McFly George Douglas McFly is a fictional lead character in the first Back to the Future motion picture, played by actor Crispin Glover, and a minor character in the 2 sequels, played by Jeffrey Weissman. He did not appear in the animated series.
George McGinnis George F. McGinnis (born August 12, 1950 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a former professional basketball player, most notably with the Indiana Pacers of the American Basketball Association (ABA) (from 1972 to 1975).
George McKenzie Samson George McKenzie Samson (7 January 1889- 28 February 1923) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
George McKenzie wrestler George MacKenzie light weight wrestling champion of England represented Great Britain in 8 Olympic Games, first when he was 18 and last when he was 41, His wife Lily and he lived at 23, Calabria Rd Islington and he ran the Ashdown wrestling club in London.
George McLaughlin (mobster) George McLaughlin (July 9, 1927– ) is an Irish-American mobster and a member of the "The McLaughlin Brothers" gang of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Georgie and his brothers (Bernie and Punchy) often worked as hitmen for their then partner, Buddy McLean.
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