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Gerry Armstrong Gerry Armstrong is a former member of the Church of Scientology who is now one of the most active critics of the Church. In 1980, the Church assigned Armstrong, then a member of the Church's elite Sea Org, to organize some personal papers of L.
Gerry Brownlee Gerard Anthony Brownlee (born 1956), generally known as Gerry Brownlee, is a New Zealand politician. He served as deputy leader of the National Party, the second largest party in the New Zealand Parliament, which forms the core of the opposition, until November 27, 2006.
Gerry Byrne Gerry Byrne, sworn in as a member of the PC at the age of 35, Byrne has been a MP in Canada since 1996 when, at the age of 29 he successfully ran, and won, in a byelection in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Byrne received a BSc from Dalhousie University and was (born September 27, 1966 at Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Gerry Conway (musician) Gerry Conway (born September 11, 1947 in King's Lynn, Norfolk) is an English rock drummer, best known for having performed with the band Jethro Tull during the 1980s. Before this he was the drummer for the band Fotheringay as well as for Eclection (other members included Kerrilee Male, Georg Kajanus (as George Hultgreen), Michael Rosen and Trevor Lucas).
Gerry Cowper Geraldine Cowper, also known as Gerry Cowper, Geri Cowper, Gerri Cowper or Gerry Cooper born 23 June 1959), is an English actress who is best known for playing Rosie Miller in EastEnders. Ironically just as David Spinx who plays her on-screen husband Keith Miller appeared in small roles on EastEnders before playing Keith, she had played a small role in 2002 as Lindsay, mother of a schiznophrenic called Matt.
Gerry Ducharme Gerald Ducharme (born March 21, 1939 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1986 to 1995, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Progressive Conservative Premier Gary Filmon from 1988 to 1995.
Gerry Faust Gerard "Gerry" Anthony Faust (born May 21, 1935) was a football coach at the University of Notre Dame from 1981 to 1985. Before beginning his coaching career, Faust enjoyed a successful stint as quarterback at the University of Dayton, where he played for a time under former Notre Dame coach Hugh Devore.
Gerry Fiennes Gerry Fiennes (full name: Gerard Francis Gisborne Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes OBE, MA) (7 June 1906 – 25 May 1985) was a famous British railway manager who rose through the ranks of the London and North Eastern Railway and later British Rail following graduation from Oxford University.
Gerry Finley-Day Gerry Finley-Day was a hugely prolific British comic book writer of the 1970s and '80s. He is best known as the creator of Rogue Trooper but also worked on several other series which appeared in 2000 AD, including Harry Twenty on the High Rock, Invasion!
Gerry Fitt Gerard "Gerry" Fitt, Baron Fitt (9 April 1926 – 26 August 2005) was a Northern Ireland politician. He was the founder leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.
Gerry Francis Gerald Charles James Francis (born Chiswick, December 6 1951), is a former English footballer and manager. He was captain and a central midfield player at Queens Park Rangers during the 1970's and was also a regular member of the England team and for a time was England captain.
Gerry Gomez Gerry Ethridge Gomez (10 October, 1919 - 6 August, 1996) was a West Indian cricketer who played 29 Tests for the West Indies between 1939 and 1954, scoring 1,243 runs and taking 58 wickets. He captained a match for the West Indies in their tour of England in 1947/8.
Gerry Gow Gerry Gow was a Scottish footballer who played for Bristol City in the 1970s, being part of the club's promotion winning team in 1976 and later captaining them in the First Division. Following relegation in 1980 he stayed at Ashton Gate until he moved to Manchester City on 23rd October 1980.
Gerry Gray Gerry Gray (born January 20, 1961 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a former Canadian national soccer team player, who played 33 times for Canada's full national team as well as for the Olympic and youth national teams. He was a member of the national youth team that played in the World Youth Championship in Japan in 1979.
Gerry Hannah Gerald Richard Hannah (also known as Gerry Useless) is the bass player for the punk rock group The Subhumans and was also a member of the militant environmental group Direct Action, also known as the Squamish Five (in the mainstream press) and the Vancouver Five (in the alternative press).
Gerry Harrison Gerry Harrison was a leading football commentator on British television in the 1970s and 80s, working for ITV. He is now a senior television executive with production company TWI, who produce coverage of English Premier League football, international golf and tennis among other sports.
Gerry Hazlitt Gervys Rignold Hazlitt, commonly known as Gerry, (born September 4, 1888, Enfield, New South Wales, died October 30, 1915, Parramatta, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in 9 Tests from 1907 to 1912.
Gerry House Gerry House is a Country Music Association (CMA) and Academy Of Country Music (ACM) award-winning radio personality, currently heard on The Big 98 WSIX-FM in Nashville on the breakfast show, 'Gerry House and the House Foundation'.
Gerry House and the House Foundation 'Gerry House and the House Foundation' is a Country Music Association (CMA) and Academy Of Country Music (ACM) award-winning morning radio show on The Big 98, WSIX-FM in Nashville, Tennessee, and heard across the world on WSIX.com and on XM Satellite Radio Channel 161, from 6 to 10am (CST) Monday through Friday.
Gerry Hughes Gerry Hughes is the first profoundly deaf man to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean. He crossed the finishing line off Castle Hill, Newport at 1130hrs (1630hrs GMT) local time on Saturday 03 July 2005 after 35 days of sailing.
Gerry Hutch Gerry Hutch is a former criminal born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in 1963 who is also known by his nickname of the Monk. He was part of a gang primarily involved in robbery and amassed a significant number of convictions between 1970 and 1985 intermittently spending time in prison.
Gerry Chiniquy Germain Adolph "Gerry" Chiniquy (pronounced "CHIN-nick-ee") (June 23, 1912 - November 22, 1989) was an American animator. He is best known for his work with Friz Freleng, at both Warner Bros.
Gerry Kearby Gerald "Gerry" Kearby is an entrepreneur who rose to prominence during the "dot-com" boom of the late 1990s. He has worked predominantly with music and audio-related electronics and software companies.
Gerry Kelly Gerard "Gerry" Kelly (Irish GearĂłid Ă“ Ceallaigh born 5 April 1953 in Lower Fall's Road, Belfast) is an Irish republican politician and former PIRA Volunteer who played a leading role in the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement on 10 April 1998. He is currently member of Sinn FĂ©in's Ard Chomhairle (National Executive) and an MLA for North Belfast.
Gerry Laffy Gerry Laffy (born 4 January, 1960 in Hoxton, London) is a singer and guitarist who has played in the bands Girl, London Cowboys, Sheer Greed, John Taylor, and Ultravox among others. Girl are still cited as an influence by many major artists twenty years later, even though they disbanded after only three years, allegedly due to their record company and mismanagement.
Gerry Lindgren Gerry Lindgren (born March 9, 1946 in Spokane, Washington) is an American track and field runner who is widely recognized as having been the best high school runner in the United States at the time, and perhaps the best ever.
Gerry Lowrey Gerry Lowrey (Born - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian Professional Hockey Forward who played 6 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Quakers, Chicago Blackhawks and Ottawa Senators.
Gerry McAvoy Gerry McAvoy (born in 1950, Belfast) played bass guitar for Rory Gallagher between 1971 and 1991, and has since been in Nine Below Zero. In 2006 McAvoy had his autobiography, Riding Shotgun - 35 years on the road with Rory Gallagher and Nine Below Zero, published.
Gerry McNamara Gerry McNamara (born August 28 1983) is a former guard for the Syracuse Orange - Syracuse University men's basketball team, from 2002 to 2006. The 6' (183 cm) McNamara is known for his shooting - especially for his three-point shooting - and his tenacity
Gerry Mercier Gerald Mercier (born November 9, 1942 in Claresholm, Alberta) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1977 to 1988, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative government of Sterling Lyon.
Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta (Band) is a collaboration between Scottish poet Mitchell and London based band Little Sparta. Signed to Fire Records (UK) in 2005 the first release, Scalpel Slice, was in February 2006.
Gerry Mulligan Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6 1927 – January 20 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger, known primarily for his unusually cool baritone saxophone sound and style; his writing and arranging for Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others; and, his own pianoless quartet of the early 1950s.
Gerry Mullins Gerry Mullins (1949-) is a retired American football player, who started at the offensive guard position for the Pittsburgh Steelers for his entire career (1971-1979). Known as "Moon," Mullins, who also played football at the University of Southern California, was drafted in 1971 and went on to win four Super Bowls with the Steelers (Super Bowls IX, X, XIII, and XIV).
Gerry O'Callaghan Gerard O'Callaghan was a Volunteer within the Provisional Irish Republican Army from Benburb, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. O'Callaghan joined the IRA in the 1970s and was arrested along with fellow IRA volunteer Padraig McKearney in 1980.
Gerry Owens Gerry Owens is the former head women’s volleyball coach at Louisiana State University. Owens succeeded Jinks Coleman in 1977 and recorded an overall record of 95-49 in four seasons as head coach of the Lady Tigers.
Gerry Owens (Musician) Gerry Owens is the vocalist, songwriter, arranger and producer of Irish Industrial Rock Band Lluther Owens was born in Dublin, Ireland. As his father was a Musician, Owens was always surrounded by music, particularly film soundtracks and classical/ orchestral music.
Gerry Philbin Gerry Philbin (July 31, 1941), a defensive tackle and four year starter from the University of Buffalo where he earned several honors including second team All-American, Little All-America, and All-American Academic team. Drafted by both the Detroit Lions of the National Football League and the New York Jets of the American Football League in the third round of the 1964 draft, he joined the Jets (after a very feeble attempt by the Lions to sign him) and became an immediate starter and perennial All-Pro at defensive end.
Gerry Phillips Gerry Phillips (born September 11, 1940 in London, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and serves as Ministry of Government Services in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Gerry Ritz Gerry Ritz, PC , MP (born August 19, 1951) is a Canadian Member of Parliament for Battlefords—Lloydminster, a largely rural riding in Saskatchewan. Born in Delisle, Saskatchewan, he was elected as the Reform Party candidate in 1997, and then re-elected with the Canadian Alliance in 2000 and the Conservative Party of Canada in 2004.
Gerry Roufs Gerry Roufs was a competitive sailor, born in Montreal, Canada, in 1953. He disappeared at sea in his boat, Groupe LG2 in January 1997, in the South Pacific Ocean, while taking part in the 1996–1997 edition of the Vendée Globe, the round-the-world, single-handed, non-stop yacht race.
Gerry Shannon Gerry Shannon - (Born October 25, 1910, in Campbellford, Ontario) was a Professional Hockey Left Winger who played 5 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Eagles, Boston Bruins and Montreal Maroons.
Gerry Spence Gerry Spence (b. January 8 1929, Laramie, Wyoming) is one of the most renowned trial lawyers in the United States, and has had more multi-million dollar verdicts without an intervening loss than any other lawyer in America.
Gerry Staley Gerald Lee Staley (born August 21, 1920 in Brush Prairie, Washington) was a Pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1947-54), Cincinnati Reds (1955), New York Yankees (1955-56), Chicago White Sox (1956-61), Kansas City Athletics (1961) and Detroit Tigers (1961).
Gerry Steinberg Gerald Neil Steinberg, known as Gerry Steinberg, (born 20 April 1945) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for the City of Durham from 1987 until his retirement at the 2005 general election.
Gerry Studds Gerry Eastman Studds (May 12 1937 – October 14 2006) (pronounced , hard g as in get, rhymes with merry) was an American Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts who served from 1973 until 1997. He was the first openly gay national politician in the U.
Gerry Summers Gerry Summers was a professional footballer with West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield United, Hull City and Walsall; he then went into football coaching with Oxford United, Gillingham, Derby County and Leicester City.
Gerry Taggart Gerry Taggart (born 18 October, 1970 in Belfast) is a retired Northern Irish footballer who played for Manchester City, Barnsley, Bolton Wanderers, Leicester City and Stoke City. In addition he made 51 appearances for Northern Ireland, scoring 7 goals.
Gerry Thomas Gerry Thomas (1922-2005) was an American salesman who was credited -- over the objections of the Swanson family and former Swanson employees -- with inventing the TV dinner while working for Swanson in 1954, even though he did not own a television himself. It was claimed that he used his experience with mess kits from his military service to develop a 3 compartment design, which was similar to the in-flight meal trays used by the airlines of the day.
Gerry Whiting Hazelton Gerry Whiting Hazelton (February 24, 1829 - September 29, 1920) was a Republican United States Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire he attended the common schools, Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, and received instruction from a private tutor.
Gerry Wood Gerald Vincent Wood is an Australian politician. A former mayor of the Northern Territory shire of Litchfield, he has been an independent member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 2001, representing the electorate of Nelson.
Gerrymandering Gerrymandering is a controversial form of redistricting in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are manipulated for an electoral advantage. The word "gerrymander" is named for the American politician Elbridge Gerry (July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814), Gerry pronounced his name (with a hard G) and is a blend of his name with the word "salamander," which was used to describe the appearance of a tortuous electoral district Gerry created in order to disadvantage his electoral opponents.
Gersey Gersey is an Australian rock band based in Melbourne, which formed in 1997. The band is comprised of Craig Jackson (vocals, bass), Daryl Bradie (guitar), Matt Davis (guitar), Danny Tulen (drums) and Drew Pearse (keyboards).
Gershom In the Bible, Gershom (גֵּרְשֹׁם "Expulsion", Standard Hebrew Gerəšom, Tiberian Hebrew Gērəšōm) was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah (Exodus 2:22). The text explains the name as "a stranger there" (גר שם ger sham), referring to Moses' flight from Egypt.
Gershom Mendes Seixas Gershom Mendes Seixas was the minister of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of New York from 1768 to 1776 and again from 1784 to 1816. Although not an ordained Rabbi, he served as Hazzan and Minister to the Congregation and was among the first Jewish communal leaders who was born and educated in the United States.
Gershom Scholem Gershom Scholem (December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982), also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian raised in Germany. He is widely regarded as the modern founder of the scholarly study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Gershon Gershon was the oldest of the three sons of Levi; his brothers were Kohath and Merari (; ), and his sons were Libni and Shimei (). Gershon was founder of the family called the Gershonites (), one of the three main divisions of the Levitical priesthood.
Gershon Legman Gershon Legman (November 2, 1917 – February 23, 1999), American social critic and folklorist was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to parents of Eastern or Central European Jewish descent. According to George Chauncey's book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994), Legman was a homosexual.
Gershon Sirota Gershon-Itskhok Sirota (1874, Podolskaya gubernya - 1943 Warsaw) was one of the leading cantors of Europe during the "Golden Age of Hazzanut" (cantorial music), sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Caruso."
Gershwin operating system Gershwin was the code name for Apple Computer's next-generation operating system that was proposed to follow Apple's failed Copland project for the Apple Macintosh platform. Gershwin was supposed to be a true multi-tasking operating system and feature a reentrant implementation of the Macintosh Toolbox.
Gerstenslager The Gerstenslager Company, a subsidiary of Worthington Industries, is a maker of past model body panels for several major auto makers. In the 1950s the company was best known for making large custom vehicles such as Bookmobiles, canteens and mobile television units.
Gert and Daisy Gert and Daisy were fictional characters who appeared in radio and films during the war years. They often appeared on the BBC Light Programme 'Worker's Playtime', talking about anything and everything, especially their fictitious husbands Bert and Wally.
Gert Fröbe Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe (IPA: ) (February 25, 1913 – September 5, 1988), was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst.
Gert Holstege Gert Holstege is a neuroscientist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Since 1993 he has been a Full Professor of Neuroanatomy and the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the Faculty of Medicine.
Gert Jonnys Gert Jonnys was a Swedish band that played dance music during the 1970s and 1980s. Its leader, Gert Jonny Hansson left the band in 1982, and since 1988, the three remaining members and one additional member, are known as Freddy's, led by Freddy Pedersen.
Gert Kruys Gert Kruys (born May 8, 1961 in Utrecht) is a former football midfielder from the Netherlands, who played his entire career for FC Utrecht (1978-1988) with one short spell at RKC Waalwijk (1987). He retired in 1988, and soon afterwards became an coach who worked for AGOVV Apeldoorn, Cambuur Leeuwarden, FC Den Bosch, De Graafschap, and FC Dordrecht.
Gert Weil Gert Weil (born January 3, 1960 in Puerto Montt) is a retired Chilean shot putter of German ancestry, who dominated the sport on the South American scene during the 1980's and early 1990's. His best performance at a global event was a sixth place at the 1988 Olympic Games.
Gerta Keller Gerta Keller (born 1945) is a paleontologist who contests the Chicxulub crater as the location of the meteorite impact, postulated as the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event 65 mya by the Alvarez hypothesis . Keller is currently a professor of Geosciences, at Princeton University .
Gertrud Bäumer Gertrud Bäumer (Hohenlimburg, 12 September 1873 - Bethel, 25 March, 1954) was a German politician who actively participated in the Feminist movement. She was also a writer, and contributed to Friedrich Naumann's paper Die Hilfe.
Gertrud Elisabeth Mara Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (23 February 1749 - 20 January 1833) was a German singer born in Kassel, the daughter of a poor musician named Schmeling. From him she learnt to play the violin, and while still a child her playing at the fair at Frankfurt was so remarkable that money was collected to provide for her.
Gertrud von Le Fort Gertrud von Le Fort (October 11, 1876, Minden - November 1, 1971, Oberstdorf, Bavaria) was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays. She came from a Protestant background, but converted to Catholicism in 1926.
Gertrude and Claudius Gertrude and Claudius is a novel by John Updike. It uses the known sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet to tell a story that draws on a rather straightforward revenge tale in the medieval Denmark depicted by Saxo Grammaticus in his twelfth-century Historiae Danicae, but incorporates extra plot elements added by François de Belleforest in his Histoires tragiques, published in 1576.
Gertrude B. Elion Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents, she graduated from Hunter College in 1937 and New York University (M.Sc.) in 1941. Unable to obtain a graduate research position due to her sex, she worked as a lab assistant and a high school teacher, before becoming an assistant to George H. Hitchings at the Burroughs-Wellcome pharmaceutical company (now GlaxoSmithKline). She never obtained a formal Ph.D., but she was later awarded an honorary Ph.D from George Washington University.
Gertrude Baniszewski Gertrude Baniszewski (1929–1990), also known as Gertrude Wright and The Torture Mother, was an Indiana divorcee who oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl she had taken into her home. When she was convicted of first degree murder in 1965, the case was called "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history".
Gertrude Berg Gertrude Berg (née Gertrude Edelstein) (October 3, 1899 - September 14, 1966), was a pioneer of classic American radio, one of the first if not the first of her gender to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running hit, when she premiered The Rise of the Goldbergs---known later and better as simply The Goldbergs---in 1929.
Gertrude Denman Gertrude Mary Denman, Lady Denman GBE (née Pearson) (1884 - 1954) was a British woman active in women's rights issues including the promotion of Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She was also the wife of Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman, fifth Governor-General of Australia, and she officially named Australia's capital city Canberra.
Gertrude Dunn Gertrude Dunn (1932 - 2004) was a former player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - the league made famous by the 1992 movie "A League Of Their Own." She played on two teams, the "Battle Creek Belles" and the "South Bend Blue Sox," and was named "Rookie of the Year" in 1952.
Gertrude Himmelfarb Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. She is also known as an outspoken commentator in relation to university education.
Gertrude Hoffman Gertrude Hoffman (May 17, 1871, Heidelberg, Germany - October 21, 1966, Hollywood, California) was a German-born film actress who played a long list of grandmothers, old ladies, spinsters, and elderly women in films. Her acting career began in Germany and she didn't begin appearing in American films until she was already in her 60s.
Gertrude Chataway Gertrude Chataway (1866-1951) was the most important child-friend in the life of the author Lewis Carroll, after Alice Liddell. It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense mock-epic The Hunting of the Snark (1876), and the book is dedicated to her.
Gertrude Jekyll Gertrude Jekyll (November 29, 1843–December 8, 1932), was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist who created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA. She also contributed over 1,000 articles to Country Life, The Garden and other magazines.
Gertrude Käsebier Gertrude Käsebier (née Stanton) (1852 - 1934) was a American photographer, she was a part of the PhotoSecession movement in America with Eduard Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn and Clarence Hudson White and a founder of the Pictorial Photographers of America.
Gertrude Lawrence Gertrude Lawrence (June 4 1898 - September 6 1952) was an actress and musical performer popular in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing on stage in London and on Broadway, and in several films. She is particularly associated with the light comedy of Noel Coward.
Gertrude Mary Cox Gertrude Mary Cox (January 13, 1900 – October 17 1978) was an influential American statistican and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research Division of North Carolina State University.
Gertrude of Flanders Gertrude of Flanders, also known as The Witch Queen of Flanders, was a fictional character, the Queen consort of King Richard IV of England and mother of Harry, Prince of Wales and Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh in the first series of the popular BBC sitcom The Black Adder. She was played by Elspet Gray.
Gertrude Rachel Levy Gertrude Rachel Levy (1884-1966) was an author writing on comparative mythology, matriarchy, epic poetry and archaeology. Her division of epic poems into three types (creation, battle and quest) is often cited.
Gertrude Sanford Legendre Daughter of the late rug fortune John Sanford, Gertrude Sanford Legendre was a former debutante who left high society to become a world-touring big-game hunter. Her brother Stephen “Laddie” Sanford was an international polo star and director of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company.
Gertrude Thanhouser Gertrude Homan Thanhouser, spouse of co-founder Edwin Thanhouser, worked at the studio as actress, scenario writer, film editor, and studio executive. Her efforts made the studio one of the key independent US film studios in the nickelodeon and transitional era, praised for its erudite adaptations of Shakespeare and other "classical" stage dramas to the screen.
Gertrude, Duchess of Austria Gertrude of Austria (1226-1288) was the niece of Duke Frederick II of Austria, the last male member of the Babenberg dynasty (daughter of his elder brother Henry of Mödling), and granddaughter of Leopold VI of Austria and Theodora Angelina.
Gertrudis Bocanegra María Gertrudis Bocanegra Mendoza de Lazo de la Vega (April 11, 1765, Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, New Spain—October 11, 1817, Pátzcuaro) was a woman who fought in the Mexican War of Independence. She was arrested, tortured and executed in 1817.
Gerty Cori Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) — a derivative of glucose — is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.
Gerund In linguistics, a gerund is a kind of verbal noun that exists in some languages. In today's English, it can behave as a verb within a clause (so that, for example, it may be modified by an adverb or have an object), but the clause as a whole (sometimes consisting only of one word, the gerund) acts as a noun within the larger sentence.
Gerundive In linguistics, a gerundive is a kind of verb form in various languages. The term is applied very differently to different languages; depending on the language, gerundives may be verbal adjectives, verbal adverbs, or even finite verbs.
Gervais Delarue Gervais Delarue (1751-1835), French historical investigator, formerly regarded as one of the chief authorities on Norman and Anglo-Norman literature, was a native of Caen. He received his education at the university of that town, and was ultimately raised to the rank of professor.
Gervais' Beaked Whale Gervais' Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon europaeus), sometimes known as the Antillian Beaked Whale, Gulf Steam Beaked Whale, or European Beaked Whale (from which its scientific name is derived) is the most frequently stranding type of Mesoplodont whale off the coast of North America. It has also stranded off South America and Africa.
Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat The Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat, Dermanura cinerea, is a bat species from South and Central America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Gervase Markham Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (1568?—February 1637) was an English poet and writer, best known for his work The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman first published in London in 1615.
Gervase Phinn Gervase Phinn (born December 27 1946 in Rotherham, Yorkshire) is an English author and educator. After a career as a teacher he became a schools inspector and, latterly, Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Teesside.
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas Gervasio Antonio de Posadas y Dávila (Buenos Aires, June 18, 1757 – July 2, 1833) was a member of Argentina's Second triumvirate from 19 August 1813 until 31 January 1814, after which he continued as Supreme Director until January 9 1815.
Gervasio Deferr Gervasio Deferr Angel (born November 7, 1980 in PremiĂ  de Mar, Barcelona) is a gymnast from Spain, who started in gymnastics at the age of five, and has since become the number one athlete of his country in that sport.
Gerwani Gerwani (from Gerakan Wanita Indonesia, Indonesian Women's Movement) was an organization of communist women active in Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s. It shared many members with and was linked to the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), but was an independent organization concerned with a variety of socialist and feminist issues, including marriage law reform, labor rights, and Indonesian nationalism.

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