People: G

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• G. Gordon Liddy 1930–2021American lawyer, a member of the White House Plumbers, convicted in the Watergate break-in.
• G. Robert BlakeyGeneral Counsel and Staff Director of the House Select Committee on Assassinations; co-author of a 2003 letter asking the CIA to release records on George Joannides.
• Gabe PlotkinAmerican investor; founder and chief investment officer of Melvin Capital.
• Gareth JonesJournalist, former secretary to David Lloyd George, who reported a famine in the Soviet Union in March 1933.
• Gary Clayton AndersonHistorian; author of Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian.
• Gavin NewsomGovernor of California since 2019.
• Gavrilo Princip 1894–1918Student who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
• Gene Cernan 1934–2017American astronaut, commander of Apollo 17 and the last person to leave the Moon's surface.
• Geoffrey JonesBusiness historian at Harvard Business School; author of Beauty Imagined.
• Geoffrey SupranHarvard researcher; co-author of the 2017 study of ExxonMobil’s climate communications.
• Georg von Schnitzler 1884–1962IG Farben board member who attended the meeting of 20 February 1933, swore an affidavit about it in 1945 and was convicted in the IG Farben case.
• George B. CortelyouSecretary of the Treasury in 1907.
• George DanielsU.S. District Judge in New York who ruled in 2025 that the 9/11 families’ suit against Saudi Arabia may go on.
• George Joannides 1922–1990CIA operations officer. The CIA has acknowledged in court that he took part in a covert project named JMWAVE and, in 1978–1979, served as its representative to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
• George PullmanFounder of Pullman's Palace Car Company and of the town of Pullman.
• George ShermanAmerican retail executive, named GameStop's chief executive in March 2019 after leading Victra.
• George Shultz 13 Dec 1920 – 6 Feb 2021Former U.S. Secretary of State; a director of Theranos.
• George TenetDirector of Central Intelligence from 1997 to 2004.
• George W. BushPresident of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
• George WashingtonCommander of the Continental Army and first U.S. President; owner of the key to the Bastille.
• Georges RutagandaConvicted of genocide by the Rwanda Tribunal, partly for his role in the attack on the ETO school in Kigali.
• Georgi Dimitrov 1882–1949Bulgarian Communist who gave the main report on fascism to the Comintern’s Seventh Congress in 1935.
• Gerald R. Ford 1913–200638th President of the United States, who pardoned Richard Nixon.
• Giorgio Ambrosoli until Jul 1979Milan lawyer, liquidator of Banca Privata Italiana; shot dead in July 1979.
• Gisbert von Romberg 1866–1939German minister in Bern during the First World War.
• Gladys KesslerU.S. District Judge who presided over United States v. Philip Morris USA and wrote the 2006 opinion.
• Golda Meir 3 May 1898 – 8 Dec 1978Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974.
• Gottlieb von Jagow 1863–1935German Foreign Secretary in 1914.
• Gouverneur Morris 1752–1816American who kept a diary in Paris and watched the Estates-General open in 1789; later U.S. minister to France.
• Granville SharpEnglish abolitionist who pressed the Zong case after Equiano told him of it.
• Greg BrockmanAmerican software engineer; OpenAI's CTO at its 2015 launch, later its chairman and president.
• Grigori Sokolnikov 1888–1939Bolshevik; signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk for Soviet Russia in March 1918; later People's Commissar of Finance.
• Grigory Zinoviev 1883–1936Bolshevik leader; travelled with Lenin on the sealed train.
• Grover Cleveland 1837–190822nd and 24th President of the United States.
• Guenter LewyPolitical scientist; argues that the Genocide Convention's test of intent rules out most of the Native American deaths.
• Gus Grissom 1926–1967American astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire.
• Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach 1870–1950Head of the Krupp firm until 1943 and chairman of the Reich Association of German Industry in 1933.
• Gérard WertheimerCo-owner of Chanel, with his brother Alain, by Reuters’s account.