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Bob Glidden

Bob Glidden was an American drag racer. He was born in Whiteland, Indiana. He retired from Pro Stock racing in 1997 and returned in 2010. Glidden retired as the driver with the most wins in National Hot Rod Association NHRA history at that time a ...

Fred Gloden

Frederick Jean Gloden Jr. was an American football halfback. He played one season with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He played college football at Tulane University. He was also a member of the Miami Seahawks of the All ...

Robert H. Goddard

Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American scientist who designed, built and fired rockets. In 1918 he invented the bazooka for the United States Army. On March 16, 1926, he launched the worlds first liquid fueled rocket. It reached a height of 56 ...

Stan Goldberg

Stan Goldberg was an American comic book artist. He was best known for his work with Archie Comics and as a Marvel Comics colorist who in the 1960s helped design the original color schemes of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and other major charact ...

Ari Gold (musician)

Ari Gold was an American pop singer and songwriter. He was openly gay. Many of his songs talked about his life as a gay Jew such as in his album titled Ari Gold – Untitled: The Making of a Gay Pop Star. Gold died from leukemia on February 14, 202 ...

Bill Gold

William "Bill" Gold was an American graphic designer best known for thousands of movie poster designs. His first movie poster was for Yankee Doodle Dandy 1941, and his most recent and final work was for J. Edgar 2011. During his 70-year career he ...

Dave Goldberg

David Bruce Dave Goldberg was an American businessman. He was a Yahoo! executive before joining SurveyMonkey in 2009, and later became CEO. He also co-founded LAUNCH Media with Bob Roback. Goldberg was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to a Jewish f ...

Rolland Golden

Rolland Harve Golden was an American visual artist. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Golden was known mainly for his realism, abstract realism and "Borderline-Surrealisterm". He is listed in Marquis Whos Who in America, Marquis Whos Who in ...

Steve Golin

Steven Golin was an American movie and television producer. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Anonymous Content, and co-founder and CEO of Propaganda Films. He served as a producer for The Game, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunsh ...

Solomon W. Golomb

Solomon Wolf Golomb was an American mathematician, engineer and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California. He was best known for his works on mathematical games. He invented Cheskers in 1948 and coined the name. ...

Mary L. Good

Mary Lowe Good was an American inorganic chemist. She worked academically, in industrial research and in government. Good was known for her works in the understanding of catalysts such as ruthenium which activate or speed up chemical reactions. F ...

William F. Goodling

William Franklin "Bill" Goodling was an American Republican politician. He was born in Loganville, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvanias 19th congressional district from 1975 through 2001. ...

Jeremiah Goodman

Jeremiah Goodman was an American illustrator. He was born in Buffalo, New York. Goodman signed his work with his first name only. Goodman used his unique painting style to create the essence of a buildings interior. His painting interprets the pl ...

Philip S. Goodman

Philip Solomon Goodman was an American screenwriter, producer, and movie director. He was best known for directing the drama movie We Shall Return, starring Cesar Romero. He also wrote for television series such as Profiles in Courage, Danger, Al ...

Melanie Wade Goodwin

Melanie Wade Goodwin was an American politician. Goodwin was in the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 66th district as a member of the Democratic Party. She was in office between 2005 and 2011. She was the first member of the North ...

Richard N. Goodwin

Richard Naradof Goodwin was an American writer. Goodwin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an advisor and speechwriter to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Goodwin joined Kennedys speech writing staff in 1959 ...

Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" and "Sophisticated Giant". Gordons career lasted for over 40 years. He was among the earliest tenor players to a ...

Eugene I. Gordon

Eugene Irving Gordon was an American physicist. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs. Gordon was born on September 14, 1930 in New York City. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1952 with a B.S. in physic ...

Richard F. Gordon Jr.

Richard Francis Dick Gordon, Jr., was an American former naval officer and aviator, chemist, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, as the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 12 mission. He was bor ...

Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon was an American filmmaker, theater director and playwright. He first became known for his controversial work in experimental theater. He later became known for his horror movies. In 1969, he founded the Organic Theater Company with ...

Eville Gorham

Eville Gorham was a Canadian-American biochemist and ecologist. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His work focused on the chemistry of fresh waters and the ecology and biogeochemistry of peatlands. His works led to legislation and rede ...

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-born American painter. Gorky had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism. Gorky was born in the village of Khorgom, situated on the shores of Lake Van Vana Lij. It is not known exactly when he wa ...

Eydie Gorme

Eydie Gorme, was an American singer. Her husband, Steve Lawrence, sang with her. They were known as the duo "Steve and Eydie". Gorme herself has had some hit songs. One was "Blame it on the Bossa Nova". Gorme was born on August 16, 1928 in The Br ...

Slade Gorton

Thomas Slade Gorton III was an American politician. He was a U.S. senator from Washington state from 1981 to 1987, and from 1989 to 2001. He held both of the states Senate seats in his career and was narrowly defeated for reelection twice as an i ...

David Graeber

David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author. He was known for his books Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Utopia of Rules and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of ...

Henry Graff

Henry Franklin Graff was an American historian. He was on the faculty of Columbia University from 1946 to 1991. He was Chairman of the History Department there. Graffs works focused in the history of the Presidency of the United States and of Ame ...

Sue Grafton

Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author. She mostly wrote detective novels. She was best known for her "alphabet series" of books, featuring the character Kinsey Millhone. The first in the series was "A" Is for Alibi ; the final was "Y" Is for ...

Jim Graham

James McMillan "Jim" Nielson Graham was a Scottish-born American politician. He served as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia. He was a Democrat. He represented Ward 1 in Washington, D.C. from 1999 through 2015. He was born in Wis ...

Ronald Graham

Ronald Lewis Graham was an American mathematician. He was born in Taft, California. He was known for his important work in scheduling theory, computational geometry, Ramsey theory, and quasi-randomness. He discovered Grahams number. He was the Ch ...

Alex Grammas

Alexander Peter Grammas was an American professional baseball infielder, manager and coach. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Grammas played in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Redlegs and Chicago Cubs. He threw and ...

Rod Grams

Rodney Dwight "Rod" Grams was a politician from Minnesota and a radio personality. He served as a Republican in both the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Grams first began as a TV News anchor, but quit his job in order ...

Red Grange

Harold Edward "Red" Grange was an American football halfback and actor that played in the National Football League for 9 seasons. He was nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost" from a Chicago sportswriter named Warren Brown. He played in the NFL for 3 te ...

Joe Grant

Joe Grant was an American animator, writer and illustrator. He worked for Walt Disney between 1933 and 1949 and again from 1989 until his death just a few days before his 97th birthday. Joe Grant was born at 1908 in New York City. After school, h ...

J. Frederick Grassle

John Frederick Matthews Grassle was an American marine biologist, oceanographer, professor, and research scientist. He was known for his work on the creation of the Census of Marine Life and the first marine biological data on a global scale, the ...

Ella Grasso

Ella Tambussi Grasso was a Democratic Party American politician. She was the first female governor of the state of Connecticut. Grasso was in office from 1975 to 1980. She was elected governor in November 1974. She was the first female governor e ...

Milford Graves

Milford Graves, was an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He was born in New York City. He was known for his early avant-garde works in the 1960s with Paul Bley, Albert Ayler, and the New York Art Quartet. Graves died of heart failure in Ne ...

Ray Graves

Samuel Ray Graves was an American college and professional football player and college football coach. Graves was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied at the University of Tennessee, where he played college football. Graves was best known as ...

Dick Gray

Richard Benjamin Gray was an American baseball player. Gray was a third baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals. Gray is best known as the player who hit the first home run in Los Angeles Do ...

Gordon Gray (politician)

Gordon Gray was a government official of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.

Henry Gray (musician)

Henry Gray was an African-American blues pianist and singer. He was born in Kenner, Louisiana. His career began in the 1930s and had performed with many artists, including Robert Lockwood Jr., Billy Boy Arnold, the Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters an ...

L. Patrick Gray

Louis Patrick Gray III was Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from May 2, 1972 to April 27, 1973. He was in charge of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to th ...

Mike Gray

Michael "Mike" Gray was an American writer, screenwriter, activist, cinematographer, movie producer and director. He was known for making many documentaries about drugs and war. He was also the screenwriter for Star Trek: The Next Generation and ...

William M. Gray

William "Bill" Mason Gray was Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, and the head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSUs Department of Atmospheric Sciences. He was widely regarded as a pioneer in the science ...

C. Jackson Grayson

C. Jackson "Jack" Grayson, Jr. was an American businessman and writer. He was the chairman of APQC, dean of two business schools, head of the U.S. Price Commission, a farmer, newspaper reporter and FBI agent. In 1977 he founded APQC as a private ...

Anthony Graziano

Anthony A. Graziano was an American mobster and consigliere. He worked in the Bonanno crime family. In 1990, Graziano pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion. He had failed to pay 0.000 to the Internal Revenue Service. In September 2002, Graziano w ...

Eli Grba

Eli Grba was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was born Chicago, Illinois. Grba played for the New York Yankees from 1959 to 1960 and Los Angeles Angels from 1961 to 1963. His major league career ended during the 1963 season when he w ...

David Greaves

David Greaves was an English former professional snooker player. He was born in Saint Annes on Sea, Lancashire. Greaves turned professional in 1972, at the age of 25, playing his first match against Bernard Bennett in the 1973 World Snooker Champ ...

Ralph S. Greco

Ralph Steven Greco was an American surgeon and sculptor. He was the Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor, Emeritus of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. He was well-known for his advocacy for the well-being of surgery resid ...

Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor, reformer and politician. His New York Tribune was the most influential newspaper of the period 1840-1870. Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties. He is best known for his social ...

Dallas Green (baseball)

George Dallas Green was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in Major League Baseball. After playing for the Philadelphia Phillies and two other teams Washington Senators and the New York Mets, he went on to manage the Phillies, the New Yo ...