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Clark Gable, actor
Milton Gabler, record producer
Eva Gabor, actor
Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor
Gabriel, biblical figure, saint
Peter Gabriel, rock musician
Muammar Gaddafi, political leader
Lady Gaga, singer, songwriter
Yuri Gagarin, astronaut
Neil Gaiman, writer
Galadriel, fictional elf
Ernesto Galarza, labor organizer, historian, professor, activist
Johnny Galecki, actor
Zach Galifianakis, actor, comedian
Galileo Galilei, astronomer, mathematician
Kyle Gallner, actor
George Gallup, pollster
James Galway, flutist
Carlo Gambino, crime boss
The Game, rapper
Gandalf, fictional wizard
Indira Gandhi, political figure
Mohandas Gandhi, political Leader, activist
James Gandolfini, actor
Greta Garbo, actor
Andy Garcia, actor
Jerry Garcia, guitarist, rock musician
Nina Garcia, fashion director
Rupert GarcÃÂa, Artist
Nomar Garciaparra, baseball player
Ava Gardner, actor
Andrew Garfield, actor
Eugene Garfield, scientist, publisher
Lucretia Garfield, U.S. First Lady
Art Garfunkel, singer; actor
Judy Garland, actor, singer
Merrick Garland, jurist, Supreme Court nominee
Erroll Garner, pianist, composer, jazz musician
James Garner, actor
Jennifer Garner, actor
Janeane Garofalo, actor, comedian
Pat Garrett, lawman
Robert Garrett, financier
William Lloyd Garrison, antislavery activist, publisher
Greer Garson, actress
Jennie Garth, actress
Marcus Garvey, political Leader
Richard Gasquet, tennis player
Bill Gates, business personality
Frederick T. Gates, clergyman, businessman
Gareth Gates, singer
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., writer, critic, educator, activist
Robert M. Gates, government official
Paul Gaugin, artist
Sunil Gavaskar, cricketer
Marvin Gaye, singer, songwriter
Mitzi Gaynor, actress, dancer
Leymah Gbowee, activist
David Geffen, music producer, business personality, film producer
Lou Gehrig, baseball player
Frank Gehry, architect
Ed Gein, murderer
Timothy Geithner, government official
Bob Geldof, rock musician, philanthropist
Sarah Michelle Gellar, actor
Uri Geller, paranormalist
Martha Gellhorn , international correspondent
Edmond Charles GenÃÂ©t, political figure
David Lloyd George, political leader, Prime Minister of Great Britain
King George I, royalty
George II, royalty
King George IV, royalty
Prince George of Cambridge, royalty
Eliza E. Mother George , Civil War nurse
Frank Gerber, baby food manufacturer
Richard Gere, actor
Elbridge Gerry, U.S. Vice President, State Governor
George Gershwin, composer
Ira Gershwin, lyricist
Ricky Gervais, actor, comedian
Stan Getz, jazz musician, saxophonist
Georgie Anne Geyer, foreign correspondent
Yasmeen Ghauri, model
Alice Ghostley, actress
Laura San Giacomo, actor
Paul Giamatti, actor
Amadeo Peter Giannini, banker
Robin Gibb, singer, songwriter
Althea Gibson, tennis player
Hoot Gibson, actor
Mel Gibson, actor, filmmaker
William Gibson, writer
Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative (Dem., Ariz.)
Kathie Lee Gifford, talk-show host
H.R. Giger, artist
William Gilbert, physician, physicist
Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth, consulting engineer, household efficiency expert
Vince Gill, country singer, songwriter
Marie Gillain, actor
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, composer
King Camp Gillette, inventor, business personality
Gilligan, fictional character
Vince Gilligan, TV producer, screenwriter
Charles Gillingham, keyboards
Bernard Gimbel , merchant, retailer
Bruce Gimbel, merchant, retailer
Isaac Gimbel, retailer
Newt Gingrich, political figure
Allen Ginsberg, poet
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Nikki Giovanni, poet, educator, activist, Writer
Ginuwine, singer
Stephen Girard, merchant, financier, philanthropist
The Spice Girls, singers
Lillian Gish, actor
Rudy Giuliani, political figure
Philip Glass, composer
Jackie Gleason, actor, comedian
John Glenn, Jr., astronaut, U.S. senator
Scott Glenn, actor
Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor of barbed wire
Danny Glover, actor, director
Louise GlÃÂ¼ck, poet
Teddy Goalsevelt, superfan, icon
Kurt GÃÂ¶del, mathematician
Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker
Paulette Goddard, actress, philanthropist
William Goddard, inventor
Lady Godiva, protesting equestrian
Godzilla, movie monster
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, scientist
Whoopi Goldberg, comedienne, actress
Jeff Goldblum, actor
William Golding, writer
Peter Goldmark, inventor
Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
Tatiana Golovin, tennis player
E. H. Gombrich, scientist, writer
Selena Gomez, actor
Lue Gim Gong, horticulturist
Patrisia Gonzales, journalist
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, filmmaker
Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, U.S. congressman
Jill Goodacre, model
Jane Goodall, ethologist, conservationist
Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
Benny Goodman, jazz musician, bandleader
Ellen Goodman, columnist
John Goodman, actor
Mary Ann Dyer Goodnight , early settler, philanthropist
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of historical biographies
Anson Conger Goodyear, industrialist, art collector
Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber
Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the U.S.S.R.
Nadine Gordimer, author
Dexter Gordon, saxophonist, jazz musician
Berry Gordy, Jr. , record company founder and executive
Edward Gorey, writer, illustrator
Gorillaz, animated characters
Maxim Gorky, writer
John Gorrie, physician, inventor of refrigeration and air-conditioning
Marleen Gorris, director, screenwriter
Jon Gosselin, TV personality
Kate Gosselin, TV personality
Louis Gossett, Jr., actor
John Gotti, mobster
Izabel Goulart, model
Elliott Gould, actor
John Gould, ornithologist
Robert Goulet, singer, actor
Betty Grable, actor
Topher Grace, actor
Chad Gracey, drummer
Steffi Graf, tennis player
Sue Grafton, writer
Aubrey "Drake" Graham, actor, rapper
Bill Graham, rock music promoter/manager
Billy Graham, evangelist
Bob Graham, U.S. Senator, Governor of Florida
Franklin Graham, evangelist
Heather Graham, actor
Katharine Graham, publisher
Martha Graham, modern dancer, choreographer
Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, writer
Kelsey Grammer, actor
Ariana Grande, actor, singer
J.J. Grandville, artist
Percy Granger, playwright
Stewart Granger, actor
Amy Grant, pop musician
Cary Grant, actor
Hugh Grant, actor
Julia Dent Grant, First Lady
StÃÂ©phane Grappelli, violinist, composer, songwriter
Robert Graves, poet, writer
Freddie Gray, murder victim
Macy Gray, musician
Spalding Gray, actor, monologuist
Adolphus Greely, explorer
Green Day, punk rock band
Adolph Green, playwright and lyricist
Chuck Green, tap dancer
John Green, writer
Tom Green, comedian, actor
Ashley Greene, actor
Lorne Greene, actor
Paul Greengrass, filmmaker, director
Greensboro Four, civil rights activists
Alan Greenspan, economist
Sydney Greenstreet, actor
Germaine Greer, author
Wayne Gretzky, hockey player
Gregory XIII, pope
Joel Grey, actor, singer, dancer
Lady Jane Grey, royalty
Zane Grey, writer
Pam Grier, actor
Kathy Griffin, comedian, actor
Merv Griffin, television host, businessman
Andy Griffith, actor
D.W. Griffith, filmmaker
Melanie Griffith, actor
Nanci Griffith, musician, songwriter
The Brothers Grimm, fabulists
The Grinch, fictional villain
Henry Grinnell, merchant, philanthropist
Rupert Grint, actor
John Grisham, writer
Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom , astronaut
Josh Groban, singer
Charles Grodin, actor, producer
Matt Groening, cartoonist, writer
Dave Grohl, drummer
Andrew Grove, engineer, technology executive
Jaime Grubbs, scandal figure
Emm Gryner, singer, songwriter
Vince Guaraldi, pianist, jazz musician, composer
Fiorello La Guardia, political figure
John Guare, playwright
Kathy Keeton Guccione, publishing executive
Juan Luis Guerra, songwriter, guitarist, singer
Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director
Che Guevara, revolutionary
Meyer Guggenheim, industrialist, philanthropist
Simon Guggenheim, business executive, philanthropist
Solomon Robert Guggenheim, business executive, art collector
Ursula K. Le Guin, writer
Sir Alec Guinness, actor
Sacha Guitry, actor, director, playwright, screenwriter
Bryant Gumbel, television journalist
Tim Gunn, fashion director
Yana Gupta, model
Rachel Gurney, actress
JosÃÂ© Alexandre Xanana GusmÃÂ£o, President of East Timor
Johannes Gutenberg, printer
Arlo Guthrie,
Janet Guthrie, auto racer
Woody Guthrie, singer, songwriter
Steve Guttenberg, actor
Thomas Guy, publisher, philanthropist
The Tourist Guy, internet celebrity, fraud
Joaquin Guzman, drug lord, convict
Fred Gwynne, actor
Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
Maggie Gyllenhaal, actor

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