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Ginji Amano Ginji Amano (天野銀次 Amano Ginji) is a fictional character in the manga / anime series Get Backers. In the original Japanese version, he's voiced by Shotaro Morikubo, while his childhood voice was done by Ryoko Shiraishi.
Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale The Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) is a poorly known species of whale even for a beaked whale, and was named for the unusual shape of its dual teeth. It is a fairly typical looking species, but is notable for the males not having any scarring.
Ginkgo/Wanapum State Park Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park/Wanapum Recreational Area is a 7,470 acre state park at Vantage, Washington including 27,000 feet of freshwater shoreline on the Columbia River. It contains a many examples of petrified wood found in the area.
Ginkgoaceae The family of Ginkgoaceae is a family of gymnosperms which appeared during the Mesozoic Era, of which the only extant representative is Ginkgo biloba, which is for this reason sometimes regarded as a living fossil. Formerly, however, there were several other genera.
Ginling College Ginling College (also known as Ginling Women's University and Ginling Women's College of Arts and Sciences, 金陵女子文理学院, 金陵女子大学) was a Christian university founded in 1913 in Nanjing, China. It was the first university granting bachelor's degree to female students in China.
Ginnareemimus "Ginnareemimus" is the informal name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of theropod dinosaur, apparently an ornithomimosaurian, from Thailand. It is known only from incomplete remains including vertebrae and a third metatarsal with distinctive lateral "pinching" (this is known as the "arctometarsalian" condition, variations of which are found in ornithomimosaurs, tyrannosauroids, troodontids, and caenagnathids).
Ginnie Gardiner Ginnie Gardiner is an American painter associated with the massurrealism movement of the 1990s. She is a graduate of Cornell University, and writes about/interviews fellow artists in addition to creating her own art.
Ginnosuke Tanaka Ginnosuke Tanaka (田中銀之助 Tanaka Ginnosuke), (1873-1933) - was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge and then Trinity Hall, a college of Cambridge University. He introduced rugby to students at Keio University, in 1899, with the help of Edward Bramwell Clarke.
Ginnungagap In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap ("seeming emptiness" or "gaping gap") was a vast chasm that existed before the ordering of the world. To the north of Ginnungagap lay the intense cold of Niflheim, to the south the insufferable heat of Muspelheim.
Ginny Ginny is often used as a short form of Virginia or Ginevra, and is somewhat less prone to cruel nicknames. This form of the name is gaining popularity after its use as the name of the youngest Weasley child in the Harry Potter books, though J.
Ginny Brown-Waite Virginia (Ginny) Brown-Waite (born October 5 1943), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 5th District of Florida (map). The district stretches along several counties in western and central Florida, including territory in the metropolitan areas of Tampa Bay and Orlando.
Ginny Capicchioni Ginny Capicchioni is a lacrosse goaltender. She played at Sacred Heart University, and was then signed by the New Jersey Storm of the National Lacrosse League, and was the first woman to be named to an NLL roster.
Ginny Dougary Ginny Dougary is an award-winning interviewer and feature writer for The Times. She is the author of 'The Executive Tart & Other Myths', and a contributor to several anthologies including 'Ok,You Mugs' and 'Amazonians - new travel writing by women'.
Ginny Duenkel Virginia "Ginny" Duenkel (March 7, 1947) is an American swimmer who represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She medaled in two swimming events as a 17-year old, winning a Gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle and a Bronze medal in the 100 meter backstroke.
Ginny Gordon Ginny Gordon was the title character of a series of books for girls published by the Whitman Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Western Publishing of Racine, Wisconsin, in the 1950s. The books were written by Julie Campbell Tatham, writing as Julie Campbell; she also wrote the original volumes of the Trixie Belden series (beginning in 1948) for Whitman.
Gino Bartali Gino Bartali - il Ginettaccio - (18 July 1914 - 5 May 2000) was an Italian professional racing cyclist. He was the most famous Italian cyclist prior to the Second World War, having won the Giro d'Italia twice (in 1936 and 1937) and the Tour de France in 1938.
Gino Cappelletti Gino Cappelletti (born March 26, 1934) is a former American college and professional football player, 1964 American Football League Most Valuable Player, member of the New England Patriots Hall of Fame, and present announcer for Patriots.
Gino Esposito Gino Esposito is a fictional character on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by first by Claude Stevens then by Shane McNamara, who continues in the role on a recurring basis. He is the owner of 'A Good Hair Day', the salon Lyn Scully and later Janelle Timmins have worked at.
Gino Marchetti Gino John Marchetti (born January 2 1927, Smithers, West Virginia) is a former professional American football player in the National Football League. A defensive end, he played from 1952 to 1964 and 1966 for the Dallas Texans and the Baltimore Colts.
Gino Odjick Gino Odjick, the "Algonquin Assassin" was born on the 7th of September, 1970 in an Algonquin Native Reserve named Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (then River Desert Band) at Maniwaki, Quebec. He was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1990-91 to 2001-02.
Gino Perente Eugenio Perente-Ramos was a pseudonym of Gerald William Doeden, a charismatic, fast-talking small-time criminal known for establishing the National Labor Federation and it’s various front groups, a network of political cults.
Gino Quilico Gino Quilico, OC (born 1955) is a Canadian opera singer (baritone) of Italian descent. His performances include roles like Figaro in "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", Marcello in "La Bohème", Dandini in "La Cenerentola" and Escamillo in "Carmen".
Gino Reda Gino Reda (born 1960 in England) is currently host of TSNs That's Hockey since 2001 after being on SportsCentre for the previous fourteen years. He joined TSN in the summer of 1988 as a reporter covering the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
Gino Soccio Gino Soccio is a disco producer born in 1955 in Montreal. His only US Hot 100 entry was the #48 Dancer in 1979, but he did hit #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice ("Dancer" / "Dance To Dance" in 1979 and "Try It Out" / "Hold Tight" in 1981 - six weeks each).
Gino Torretta Gino Louis Torretta (born August 10, 1970 in Pinole, California)graduating from Pinole Valley High, is a former American football quarterback for several teams in the National Football League from 1993 to 1997.
Gino's Hamburgers Gino's Hamburgers was a fast-food restaurant chain based in Baltimore, Maryland, founded by Baltimore Colts defensive end Gino Marchetti and running back Alan Ameche in 1959. It was a successful East Coast regional fast food restaurant and had 313 company owned locations when they were sold to Marriott International in 1982 and were converted to their Roy Rogers restaurants brand.
Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti is a restaurant chain with 40 locations, all within the state of West Virginia. Most locations are shared with Tudor's Biscuit World, although Tudor's has expanded outside the state, while Gino's has not.
Ginrai Ginrai, occasionally spelled Jinrai and also known as both Super Ginrai and God Ginrai, and later rebuilt as Victory Leo, is a fictional character from the animated series Transformers: Super-God Masterforce and it's toy line, one of the Transformers series exclusive to Japan.
GinRyumon GinRyumon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise. A Dragon Beast Digimon whose whole body is covered in Japanese-style armor, he has yet to appear in any media other than the Pendulum X and the card game.
Ginseng Panax is a genus of about five or six species of slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots, in the family Araliaceae. They grow in the Northern Hemisphere in eastern Asia (mostly Korea, northern China, and eastern Siberia) and North America, typically in cooler climates; Panax vietnamensis, discovered in Vietnam, is the southernmost ginseng found.
Ginsenoside Ginsenosides are a class of steroid-like compounds, triterpene saponins, found exclusively in the plant genus Panax (ginseng). Ginsenosides have been the target of research, as they are viewed as the active compounds behind the claims of ginseng's efficacy.
Ginsters Ginsters is a British company based in Callington in Cornwall, in the south-west of England, which specialises in making mass produced pasties, sausage rolls, sandwiches and other savoury snacks. Products are available in thousands of retailers across the UK, including petrol stations, bakers, student unions, cafés and a number of corner shops.
Ginsu Ginsu is a line of kitchen knives made famous by their infomercial television marketing campaign. The Ginsu knife commercials, along with others produced by the same team, established many stylistic precedents for direct marketing on television:
Gintaras Beresnevičius Gintaras Beresnevičius (July 8, 1961, Kaunas — August 6, 2006, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology. He together with Norbertas Vėlius is considered to be the best specialist in Lithuanian mythology.
Gintaras DidĹľiokas Gintaras DidĹľiokas (born August 10, 1966 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Peasants and New Democratic Party Union; part of the Union for a Europe of Nations.
Gintaras Einikis Gintaras Einikis (born September 30, 1969 in Kretinga, Lithuania) is a former basketball center 208 cm tall for the Lithuanian national basketball team currently playing for CEZ in Nymburk, Czech Republic. Einikis is the only player from Lithuanian national team to have won all three consecutive Bronze medals at the Olympics in Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney.
Gintaras Krapikas Gintaras Krapikas (born July 6, 1961 in Kretinga, Lithuania) is a former player for the Lithuanian basketball team Žalgiris Kaunas. He was a member of the Lithuanian national team that won a bronze medal in Barcelona's 1992 Summer Olympics.
Ginter Park Ginter Park is a suburb neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia built on land owned and developed by Lewis Ginter. The neighborhood's first well known resident was newspaperman Joseph Bryan, who lived in Laburnum, first built in 1883 and later rebuilt In 1895], many acres of land north of Richmond were purchased by Ginter in order to develop into neighborhoods.
Ginuwine Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (born October 15 1970 in Washington, DC), known by his stage name Ginuwine, is an American R&B singer and an occasional actor. Signed to Epic Records since the mid-1990s, Ginuwine has released a number of platinum-selling albums and singles, becoming one of the most successful R&B artists of his period.
Ginyu Saga The Ginyu Saga (also known as the Captain Ginyu Saga) is the name for the roughly the middle third of the much larger Freeza Saga in Dragon Ball Z, according to FUNimation's naming conventions for the English language anime. It immediately follows the Namek Saga and is followed by the Freeza Saga.
Ginyuu Meika Ginyuu Meika (吟遊名華, meaning "Fun in Music" or "Distinguished Flower") is a single-chapter shōjo manga written by Arina Tanemura and published in Ribon in 2001. It is currently a bonus in volume two of the Full Moon wo Sagashite tankobon with Japanese, Chinese, and English versions available.
Ginza Ginza (銀座) is a district of Chūō Ward, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyobashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yurakucho and Uchisaiwaicho, and north of Shinbashi. It is known as an upmarket area of Tokyo with many department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses.
Ginzel (crater) Ginzel is a lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. It lies at the eastern edge of the Mare Marginis, in a region of the surface that is sometimes brought into sight of the Earth due to libration.
Gio van Oli Gio Van Oli (born August 13, 1975) is an electronic musician in the German synthpop band And One. He was a former member of the synthpop group Dark Voices and has also been performing with the synthpop group Dual.
Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868)Rossini's first name is often spelled "Gioacchino." Rossini himself spelled it with either one "c" or two early in life, but eventually settled on "Gioachino.
Giocattolo Giocattolo Motori Pty Ltd was a short-lived Australian car company, founded in 1986 by sports car enthusiast Paul Halstead and Formula One designer Barry Lock. The company's name comes from the Italian word for "toy".
Gioconda Belli Gioconda Belli (born 1948 in Managua) is a Nicaraguan author, poet and novelist. She was an active participant in the Sandinista struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, and her work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975.
Giolitti Giolitti is a well-known cĂ fe, pastry shop and ice cream parlor in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1890 by Giuseppe and Bernardina Giolitti and operates at two locations: via Uffici del Vicario near the Pantheon and in E.
Gion Matsuri is an annual festival that takes place in Kyoto and is said to be one of the most famous, if not the most famous festival in all of Japan. It spans the entire month of July and is crowned by the beautiful parade, the on July 17th.
Giora Epstein Giora Epstein (Hebrew: גיורא אפשטיין) (born 1938) was an Israeli fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and is the current modern-day "ace of aces" in shooting down jet fighters since 1970.
Giordano (Hong Kong) Giordano (佐丹奴; ) is a Hong Kong retailer of affordable casual wear for men, women and children. Founded in 1981 by Jimmy Lai (who no longer owns the company), it has 8,000 employees in 1500 stores operating in 31 countries worldwide.
Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno (Nola, 1548–Rome, February 17, 1600) was an Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist. Bruno is known for his system of mnemonics based upon organized knowledge and as an early proponent of the idea of an infinite and homogeneous universe.
Giordano Pierleoni Giordano (or Jordan) Pierleoni (in contemporary Latin, Jordanus filius Petrus Leonis) was the son of the Consul Pier Leoni and therefore brother of Antipope Anacletus II and leader of the Commune of Rome which the people set up in 1143. According to Gregorovius, he was a "maverick" in the great Pierleoni family, for he continued to oppose the papacy after Anacletus' death, when the rest of his clan had returned to support of Rome.
Giorgakis Olympios Giorgakis Olympios (Greek: Γιωργάκης Ολύμπιος) (1772 - 1821) was a Greek armatolos and military commander during the Greek War of Independence. He was born in the village of Livadi, near Mount Olympus and is considered to be a leading figure of the Greek Revolution.
Giorgi Kartvelishvili Giorgi Kartvelishvili - (Georgian: გიორგი ქართველიშვილი) (1827 – 1901) - famous Georgian public figure, benefactor, and businessman. Kartvelishvili owned a fishing and timber manufacturing enterprises in Georgia's Shida Kartli province and ran a sizable trading business.
Giorgi Mazniashvili Giorgi Mazniashvili (Georgian: გიორგი მაზნიაშვილი) (1872 -1937) was a Georgian general and one of the most prominent military figures in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921). During the service in the Russian army, he was also known by a Russian transliteration of his surname – Mazniev.
Giorgi Saakadze Giorgi Saakadze (1570 – October 3, 1629) was a Georgian military commander. Holding a post of mouravi (governor) of Tbilisi for years, he was dubded the Great Mouravi (Didi Mouravi) and was known to Persians as Mourav Beg.
Giorgi Sanaia Giorgi Sanaia, sometimes spelled as Giorgi Sanaya (in Georgian: გიორგი სანაია) (1975-2001) was a Georgian television journalist of the independent broadcasting company Rustavi 2 who was murdered in controversial circumstances in 2001.
Giorgi Tsereteli Giorgi Tsereteli (გიორგი წერეთელი in Georgian. October 8, 1904-September 9, 1973) was a distinguished Georgian scientist and public benefactor, founder of the well-known Georgian scientific school of Oriental Studies and Arabist of world renown, founder of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), founder and first Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Academician of GAS, Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor.
Giorgi Vazagashvili Giorgi Vazagashvili (born April 19, 1974) is a Georgian judoka. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Lightweight (60-66 kg) category, together with Girolamo Giovinazzo of Italy.
Giorgio Agamben Giorgio Agamben (born 1942) is an Italian philosopher who teaches at the Università IUAV di Venezia. He also teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and previuosly taught at the University of Macerata in Italy.
Giorgio Andreoli Giorgio Andreoli, named also Mastro Giorgio Andreoli or Mastro Giorgio, was born between 1465 and 1470 in Intra, on the Lake Maggiore, and died in Gubbio, where he spent most of his life, in 1555. He is considered to be the most important potter of the Italian Renaissance.
Giorgio Baglivi Giorgio Baglivi (Croatian: Gjuro Baglivi) (born September 8 1668 in Ragusa - died June 15 1707 in Rome) was an ethnic Armenian from the Republic of Ragusa whose work as a doctor and medical researcher, anatomist and early pathologist was done in Italy. He made important contributions to clinical education, based on his own medical practice, and in De Fibra Motrice advanced the theory that the solid parts of organs are more crucial to their good functioning than their fluids.
Giorgio Basta Giorgio Basta (1544-1607), was a general of Albanian descent, employed by the Holy Roman Emperor to command Habsburg forces in the Long War of (1591-1606) and later to administer Transylvania as an Imperial vassal. On his orders, his ally Mihai Viteazul, who briefly unified Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia, was murdered near Torda in 1601, only days after a joint victory at Goroszló (now Gurăslău, Hereclean commune, Sălaj county).
Giorgio Belladonna Giorgio Belladonna (June 7,1923- May 12,1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the most famous in bridge history. He won 16 World championship titles with Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli and Benito Garozzo.
Giorgio Biandrata Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata (c. 1515 - 1588), Italian physician and polemic, who came of the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century, was born at Saluzzo, the youngest son of Bernardino Biandrata.
Giorgio Borg Olivier Giorgio Borg Olivier (Maltese: Ġorġ Borġ Olivier) (5 July 1911 - 29 October 1980) was twice Prime Minister of Malta (1950 to 1955 and 1962 to 1971) as the Leader of the Nationalist Party. He was also Leader of the Opposition between 1955 and 1958 and again between 1971 and 1978.
Giorgio Cagnotto Franco Giorgio Cagnotto (born June 2, 1947 in Turin) is a former diver from Italy, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1964. He is considered to be one of the world's most prolific divers during the 1960s and 1970s.
Giorgio Colli Giorgio Colli (1917-1979) taught during thirty years Ancient philosophy at Pisa's university. His work as a philologist and as a historian, from the edition and translation of Aristotle's Organon to the first complete edition of Nietzsche's work (including all the posthumous fragments chronologically ordered) with his friend Mazzino Montinari, has remained exemplary.
Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) often known as Népo, was an influential pre-Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement.
Giorgio Di Centa Giorgio Di Centa (October 7, 1972, Tolmezzo, province of Udine) is an Italian cross country skier who won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, including the individual 50 km freestyle race. He is brother to Olympic gold medallist Manuela.
Giorgio Grassi Giorgio Grassi (born October 27, 1935 in Milan, Italy), studied architecture at the Polytecnic University of Milan where he graduated in 1960. He worked for the magazine Casabella for 3 years until 1961 and has been professor at a variety of universities since 1965.
Giorgio La Pira Giorgio La Pira (January 4, 1904- November 5, 1977) was an Italian politician who served as mayor of Florence twice (1950-1956, 1960-1964). He also served as deputy of the Christian Democratic Party and participated in the assembly that wrote the Constitution of Italy after World War II.
Giorgio Mammoliti George or Giorgio Mammoliti (born September 20, 1961) is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada for Ward 7 York West, representing one of the two York West wards. Previously, he served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.
Giorgio Manganelli Giorgio Manganelli, (born November 11 1922 in Milan, Italy, died May 28 1990 in Rome) was an Italian Avant-garde novelist and critic. He was one of the leaders of the Avant-garde movement in Italy in the 1960s.
Giorgio Mondini Giorgio Mondini (Born July 19, 1980) is an Automobile racing driver from Geneva, Switzerland. Giorgio began his competitive racing career at the age of 21, when he came 26th in the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup series.
Giorgio Moroder Giorgio Moroder (born Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on April 26 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Academy Award winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on new wave, techno and electronic music in general. Particularly well known are Donna Summer's disco hits produced by Moroder, including "I Feel Love".
Giorgio Nataletti Giorgio Nataletti (1907-1972) Italian musicologist and first director of the Ethnomusicological Archives at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Among other things, he was in charge of a vast project from 1948-72 to record traditional Italian music.
Giorgio Orsini Giorgio Orsini usually called Giorgio da SebenicoQuaderni Giuliani di Storia Anno XXIII (n°1 gennaio-giugno 2002) pag.21-35; article La letteratura italiana in Dalmazia: una storia falsificata by Giacomo Scotti Britannica (1911) articles about [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sebenico Sebenico and Ancona Biography (Artnet) (Croatian: Juraj Matejev Dalmatinac, Latin:Georgius Mathaei Dalmaticus), (circa 1410 - 1473), was a medieval sculptor and architect, who worked mainly at Sebenico in Dalmatia . He was born in the Dalmatian city of Zara (today Zadar, Croatia), which was then ruled by the Republic of Venice and died in Sebenico (now Šibenik, Croatia).
Giorgio Parisi Giorgio Parisi (Rome, August 4 1948-) is an influent Italian theoretical physicist, . He is best known for his works concerning statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and various aspects of Physics, Mathematics and Science in general.
Giorgio Perlasca Giorgio or Jorge Perlasca (January 31, 1910—August 15, 1992) was an Italian who posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Giorgio Rocca Giorgio Rocca (born August 6,1975, Chur, Switzerland) is an Italian Alpine skier, a specialist of Slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli and Ingemar Stenmark, he is the sole skier to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slalom in a row, a result he scored in the 2005/2006 season: only Alberto Tomba (7) made better.
Giorgio Santelli Maestro Giorgio Santelli (November 25 1897 – 1985) was a legendary fencer and fencing master who was the largest mid-20th century influence in raising the quality and popularity of fencing in the United States, and creator of one of the best-known fencing equipment manufacturers.
Giorgio Sommer Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914) was born in Frankfurt am Main (in modern day Germany), and became one of Europe’s most important and prolific photographers of the 19th century. Active from 1857 to 1888, he produced thousands of images of archeological ruins, landscapes, art objects and portraits.
Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (August 14 1921 – December 25 1997) was one of the most influential directors of Italian opera and theatre. Born in Barcola (Trieste) to an Austrian father and a French/Slovenian mother, he grew up speaking Italian, but spoke French well and his German was passable.
Giorgio Tozzi Giorgio Tozzi (born January 8 1923, in Chicago, Illinois) was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, and was seen in leading roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide. Tozzi studied at DePaul University with Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and John Daggett Howell (although he originally intended to study Biology).
Giorgio Vanzetta Giorgio Vanzetta (born January 1, 1959) is a former Italian cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 2002. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
Giorgos Donis Giorgos Donis (Greek: Γιώργος Δώνης) born October 29th, 1969 in Frankfurt, West Germany was the first ever Greek Footballer to play for the English Premiership. A pacey right winger, Giorgos Donis moved to Blackburn from Panathinaikos on June 5, 1996 after helping the Greek club reach the Champions League semi-finals in 1995-96.
Giorgos Kapoutzidis Giorgos Kapoutzidis (Greek Γιώργος Καπουτζίδης) is a Greek scriptwriter and actor. He is the creator of the successful television series ""Savvatogennimenes" (original title "Σαββατογεννημένες") and "Sto Para Pente" (original title "Στο παρά 5"), one of the most popular shows in Greek television history.
Giorgos Karagounis Giorgos Karagounis (Greek: Γιώργος Καραγκούνης; born March 6, 1977, in Pirgos, Greece) is a midfielder for SL Benfica and Greece. He scored the first goal in Greece's surprising win over Portugal in the 2004 European Football Championship.
Giorgos Koltzos Giorgos Koltzos (born September 13 1976) is a footballer, currently playing for Leeds United as a trialist. He is expected to play on Wednesday for the reserves against Barnsley, after which he could land a contract.
Giorgos Seferis Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) (February 19, 1900 – September 20, 1971) was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He also pursued a career in the Greek foreign service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962.
Giorno Poetry Systems Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques.
Gioseffo Zarlino Gioseffo Zarlino (January 31 or March 22, 1517 – February 4, 1590), was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was possibly the most famous music theorist between Aristoxenus and Rameau, and made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as to musical tuning.
Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone (Colle di Vespignano, near Florence 1267 – January 8, Florence 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was a Florentine painter and architect. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to and developed the Italian Renaissance.
Giovan Battista Aleotti Giovan Battista Aleotti is a Northern Italian architect born in 1546, and died in 1636. He completed with the assistance of his pupil, Giovan Battista Magnani, the plan of the Bolognese church of Santa Maria del Quartiere.
Giovan Battista Carpi Giovan Battista Carpi (November 16 1927-March 3 1999) was an Italian comics artist. He worked mainly for Disney comics, mostly on books featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, although he occasionally drew Mickey Mouse as well.
Giovane Scuola The Giovane Scuola ("Young School") were a group of Italian composers (mostly operatic) which included Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, Cilea, Franchetti and Perosi. Most of the composers of the Giovane Scuola movement were also Veristi, i.
Giovanna d'Arco Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc) is an operatic dramma lirico with a prelude and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the play Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Friedrich von Schiller. First performance: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 15, 1845.
Giovanna Garzoni Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, unusual for Italian painters in that her thematic were mainly decorative and luscious still-lifes of fruits, vegetables, and flowers, and because she was a woman.

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