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George (given name)
George, from the Ancient Greek γεωργός , “‘farmer’" or “‘earth-worker’," which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος , and Latin: Georgius. The word Γεωργος is a compound word, formed by the words Ge , "earth", "soil" and ergon...
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Georges Abi-Saab
Georges Abi-Saab
Georges Michel Abi-Saab is an Egyptian international law specialist.- Education :Professor Abi-Saab graduated in law from Cairo University and pursued his studies in law, economics and politics at the Universities of Paris, Michigan , Harvard Law School , Cambridge and Geneva...
Georges Abrial
Georges Abrial
Georges Abrial was an early French aerodynamicist. After graduating from the St Cyr Aeronautical Institute he worked for Levasseur and did some pioneering work into tailless aircraft...
Georges Adéagbo
Georges Adéagbo
Georges Adéagbo is a Beninese sculptor known for his work with found objects.A native of Cotonou, Adéagbo studied law in Abidjan before moving to France to continue his studies. He returned to Benin in 1971 upon the death of his father, and began creating installations and environments in...
Georges Adwan
Georges Adwan
Georges Adwan is a lawyer and a Lebanese politician. He currently holds the position of vice-president of the executive committee of the Lebanese Forces party...
Georges Agabekov
Georges Agabekov
Georges Agabekov , was an Soviet/Armenian Red Army soldier, Chekist, GPU Agent, OGPU Agent, Chief of OGPU Eastern Section, and defector....
Georges Akieremy
Georges Akieremy
Georges Akieremy Owondo is a Gabonese football striker currently playing for FC Dinamo Tbilisi.-International career:...
Georges Altman
Georges Altman
Georges Altman was a French journalist and resistance fighter. During the second world war he was involved in the Franc-Tireur organisation...
Georges Anderla
Georges Anderla
Georges Anderla is a French economist. While working for the OECD in 1973, he created a statistical model of the accumulation of human knowledge. He began by defining the known technology in 1 A.D. as a unit and showed that it had doubled in 1500, doubled again in 1750 and again in 1900...
Georges André
Georges André
Georges "Géo" Yvan André was a French athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.He was born in Paris and died in Tangier....
Georges Andrique
Georges Andrique
Georges Andriques was a French Impressionist painter. He was born in Calais and died in the same city. He largely painted in oils but also worked with watercolours. Andrique produced a number of posters including advertisements for the port of Calais...
Georges Anglade
Georges Annenkov
Georges Aperghis
Georges Aperghis
Georges Aperghis is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music...
Georges-Jean Arnaud
Georges-Jean Arnaud
Georges-Jean Arnaud is a French author. He was born in Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, Camargue, Gard.Arnaud made his first appearance in the Anticipation science fiction imprint of French publisher Fleuve Noir in 1971 with Les Croisés de Mara [The Crusaders Of Mara] the first volume of a trilogy entitled...
Georges Arvanitas
Georges Arvanitas
Georges Arvanitas was a jazz pianist and organist.His initial training was classical, but he switched to jazz in adulthood. His influences included Bud Powell and Bill Evans...
Georges Auguste
Georges Auguste
Georges Auguste is a Haitian painter. Auguste paints scenes of rural Haitian life in vibrant color. His style is known as "Raw Art."...
Georges Auric
Georges Auric
Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and under the composer Vincent D'Indy at the Schola Cantorum...
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Georges Ba
Georges Ba
Georges Ba is an Ivory Coast born football striker currently playing for French side AC Ajaccio in Ligue 2.Ba has played for a number of clubs in France and also for Israel's Maccabi Netanya...
Georges Badin
Georges Badin
Georges Badin is a French poet and painter born in 1927 living and working in the small city of Céret in the South of France.-Recent exhibitions:* , Kongsberg, Norway * , Paris * , Paris * Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris...
Georges Balandier
Georges Balandier
Georges Balandier is a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Georges Ball
Georges Ball
Georges Ball was a Canadian politician and lumber merchant. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Member of the historical Conservative Party of Canada in 1900 for the riding of Nicolet. He was defeated in the elections of 1904 and 1906.- External links :*...
Georges Bank
Georges Bank
Georges Bank is a large elevated area of the sea floor which separates the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean and is situated between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia ....
Georges Bardet
Georges Bardet
Georges Bardet was a French physician who is known for first describing a rare genetic disease. In his graduation thesis at the University of Paris in 1920, Bardet wrote about a medical condition characterized by obesity, retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly and hypogonadism...
Georges-Isidore Barthe
Georges-Isidore Barthe
Georges-Isidore Barthe was a Quebec lawyer, publisher, journalist, and political figure. He represented Richelieu in the Canadian House of Commons as an Independent Conservative from 1870 to 1872 and 1874 to 1878....
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille was a French writer. Although subsequent philosophers have been significantly influenced by his thought, Bataille tended not to refer to himself as a philosopher.-Life and work:...
Georges Beauchemin
Georges Beauchemin
Georges Beauchemin was a Canadian singer and veterinarian, who released records for both the Starr and His Master's Voice recording companies, as well as two recordings under the pseudonym Roger Mainville for the Duprex company...
Georges Beaucourt
Georges Beaucourt
Georges Beaucourt was a French football player who participated at the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He played club football with Lille and Lens; he was also the manager of Lens between 1941 and 1942.-References:**...
Georges Bédard
Georges Bédard
Georges Bédard is a member of Ottawa City Council representing the ward of Rideau-Vanier. This ward covers Lower Town, Sandy Hill, and Vanier. Born and raised in the area Bédard currently lives in Sandy Hill he attended Carleton University where he obtained a degree in political science...
Georges Bégué
Georges Bégué
Georges Bégué or George P. Begue was a French engineer and agent in the Special Operations Executive.-Early life:...
Georges Bénédite
Georges Bénédite
Georges Aaron Bénédite was a French Egyptologist. He was on the staff of the Louvre, and investigated several tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt....
Georges Bénézé
Georges Bénézé
Georges Bénézé was a French philosopherBénézé was a disciple and editor of Alain. He taught Hegel to Jean Hippolyte at the lycée in Poitiers.-Works:*Allure du transcendental, 1936*Valeu. Essai d'une théorie générale, 1936...
Georges Bereta
Georges Bereta
Georges Bereta is a former French football striker of Polish descent.-Honours:* French championship : 1967, 68, 69, 70, 74, 75 AS Saint-Étienne...
Georges Berger
Georges Berger
Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix....
Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.Bernanos was born into a family of craftsmen, and spent much of...
Georges Bernier
Georges Bernier
Georges Bernier , more commonly known as Le Professeur Choron, was a French humorist and founder of Hara Kiri magazine....
Georges Bess
Georges Bess
Georges Bess is a comics artist and comic book creator, best known for his collaborations with Alejandro Jodorowsky.-Biography:...
Georges Besse
Georges Besse
Georges Besse was a French businessman who led several large state-controlled French companies during his lifetime. He was assassinated outside his home on November 17, 1986...
Georges Biassou
Georges Biassou
Georges Biassou was an early leader of the 1791 slave rising in Saint-Domingue that began the Haïtian Revolution. With Jean François and Jeannot, he was prophesied by the vodou priest, Dutty Boukman, to lead the revolution....
Georges Bidault
Georges Bidault
Georges-Augustin Bidault was a French politician. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance...
Georges Biscot
Georges Biscot
Georges Biscot was a French film actor. He starred in some 28 films between 1916 and his death in 1945.He appeared in films such as Barabbas in 1920, and he died on 18 December 1944 in Paris....
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era. He is best known for the opera Carmen.-Biography:Bizet was born at 26 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne in the 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1838...
(1838-1875), French composer and pianist
(Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet)
Georges-Henri Blouin
Georges-Henri Blouin
Georges-Henri Blouin is a former Canadian diplomat. He was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cameroon then concurrently to the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. He was later appointed to Morocco, Spain and then the Netherlands.-...
Georges Boillot
Georges Boillot
Georges Louis Frederic Boillot was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot.Born in Valentigney, Doubs, Boillot was a mechanic by training who began automobile racing in 1908. He went on to join drivers Paul Zuccarelli and Jules Goux to help create a novel range of...
Georges Bonnet
Georges Bonnet
Georges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party.- Early career :...
Georges Boucher
Georges Boudarel
Georges Boudarel
Georges Boudarel was a French academic and Communist militant. He was accused of torturing French prisoners for the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War.-Biography:...
Georges Boulanger (violinist)
Georges Boulanger (violinist)
Georges Boulanger was a Romanian Rroma violinist, conductor and composer.-Biography:Georges Boulanger was born in Tulcea, Romaniafrom a rroma Romanian family with a very long tradition in music . His father's name was Vasile Pantazi. He was known as the typical Romanian Rroma virtuoso...
Georges Bouriano
Georges Bouriano
Georges Bouriano was a Belgium racing car driver in Formula One who raced in the Bugatti T35C. He came second in the 1929 Monaco Grand Prix....
Georges Braque
Georges Braque
Georges Braque
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was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as Cubism.-Youth:...
Georges Brassens
Georges Brassens
Georges Brassens was a French singer-songwriter.Georges Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier. Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his simple, elegant songs and articulate, diverse lyrics; indeed, he is considered one of France's most...
Georges Bregy
Georges Bregy
Georges Bregy is a retired Swiss football midfielder.He was capped 54 times and scored 12 goals for the Swiss national team between 1984 and 1994. He played four games at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and scored a free kick goal against the United States...
Georges Briard
Georges Briard
George Briard was a noted, award winning designer in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. He is most well known for his signature dishware and glassware - everything from cups and plates to gold plated serving dishes...
Georges Brossard
Georges Brossard
Georges Brossard, CM, CQ is a famed entomologist and founder of the Montreal Insectarium .-Biography:...
Georges Brunschvig
Georges Brunschvig
Georges Brunschvig was a Swiss lawyer and president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities . Internationally, he is best known for representing the plaintiff in the 1934–35 "Berne Trial".-Berne Trial:...
Georges Burou
Georges Burou
Georges Burou was a French gynecologist who managed a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco and is widely credited with innovating modern sex reassignment surgery for transwomen.Notable patients include Coccinelle, April Ashley and Jan Morris....
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Georges Cadoudal
Georges Cadoudal
Georges Cadoudal, sometimes called simply Georges was a French politician, and leader of the Chouannerie during the French Revolution....
Georges Canguilhem
Georges Canguilhem
Georges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science .-Life and work:...
Georges Capdeville
Georges Capdeville
Pierre Georges Louis Capdeville was a football referee from France, who controlled the 1938 FIFA World Cup Final in Paris between Italy and Hungary...
Georges Carnus
Georges Carnus
Georges Carnus Georges Carnus Georges Carnus (born 13 August, 1942 is a French former football goalkeeper.-Biography:He was selected in France for FIFA World Cup 1966 in England but remained Marcel Aubour's substitute.He later signed with AS Saint-Étienne, winning his first titles.His successes...
Georges Carpentier
Georges Carpentier
Georges Carpentier was a French boxer. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man", he stood and his fighting weight ranged from...
Georges Casolari
Georges Casolari
Georges Casolari is a French former footballer.-External links:**...
Georges Catroux
Georges Catroux
Georges Catroux was a French Army general and diplomat who served in both World War I and World War II, and served as Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur from 1954 to 1969....
Georges Antoine Chabot
Georges Antoine Chabot
Georges Antoine Chabot, known as Chabot de Lallier , was a French jurist and statesman.-Biography:Chabot was president of the tribunal in Montluçon, he was elected as a deputy supplant to the National Convention during the French Revolution....
Georges Chaperot
Georges Chaperot
Georges Chaperot is a French screenwriter who co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales with René Wheeler, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947. Their story would later serve as an inspiration for the hugely successful film The Chorus ....
Georges Chappe
Georges Chappe
Georges Chappe is a retired cyclist from France, who was nicknamed Jojo during his professional career. He was a professional from 1965 to 1975. In 1970 he won the Critérium International. In 1968, Chappe won a stage in the Tour de France, but in 1971 he had the questionable honor of being the...
Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak is a Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner.-Life:Charpak was born in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland to a Jewish family of Polish origin as Jerzy Charpak...
Georges Charpy
Georges Charpy
Georges Charpy, full name Georges Augustin Albert Charpy was the French scientist who created the Charpy impact test. He attended École Polytechnique from 1885 to 1887 and graduated with a degree in Marine Artillery. In 1887 he became a professor at École Monge. In 1892 he published his physics...
Georges Chastellain
Georges Chastellain
Georges Chastellain , Burgundian chronicler and poet, was a native of Aalst in Flanders. In spite of excessive partiality to the Duke of Burgundy, Chastellain's historical works are valuable for the accurate information they contain. As a poet he was famous among his contemporaries...
Georges Chatelain
Georges Chatelain
Georges Chatelain was born at 36 rue Ballu in Paris. This address is where the world renowned musical celebrities Nadia and Lili Boulanger lived and worked. Georges became an author/ composer and musical producer and, in 1966, founded what was the most advanced recording studio of its time in...
Georges-André Chevallaz
Georges-André Chevallaz
Georges-André Chevallaz was a Swiss historian, politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ....
Georges Chometon
Georges Chometon
Georges Chometon, born november 9, 1928 in Saint-Bonnet-le-Chastel , was a French politician.-Offices to which he was elected:*Municipal conseilleur in Saint-Bonnet-le-Chastel from 1953...
Georges Christen
Georges Christen
Georges Christen is a Luxembourgian strongman. He holds several Guinness World Records, including the fastest hot water bottle inflated by lung power. Other records involve train-towing and plane-pulling.-External links:*...
Georges Claude
Georges Claude
The French engineer, chemist, and inventor Georges Claude , was the first to apply an electrical discharge to a sealed tube of neon gas to create a lamp...
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician, and journalist. He served as the prime minister of France from 1906-1909 and 1917-1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles...
Georges Clément
Georges Clément
Georges Clément was a French track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.Clément competed in the 400 metres. He placed fourth in his first-round heat and did not advance to the final.-References:...
Georges Cochery
Georges Cochery
Georges Charles Paul Cochery was the son of Louis-Adolphe Cochery.He was deputy of his father's département of the Loiret from 1879 till 1885, deputy from 1885, five times president of the Budget Commission, minister of finance and vice-president of the chamber , and again finance minister in the...
Georges Condominas
Georges Condominas
Georges Condominas is a French cultural anthropologist. He is best known for his field studies of the Mnong people of Vietnam .-Biography:Georges Condominas is born in 1921 in Haiphong...
Georges Corm
Georges Corm
Georges Corm is a Lebanese Economist and Historian. He is an economic consultant to international organizations and professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut....
Georges Corraface
Georges Corraface
Georges Corraface is a Franco-Greek actor who has had an international career in film and television, following many years in French theatre, notably as a member of the famed Peter Brook Company...
Georges Corvington
Georges Corvington
Georges Corvington, Jr. is a Haitian historian. He is best known for his seven-volume work on the history of Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, entitled Port-au-Prince au Cours des Ans . The book was published from 1970 to 1992....
Georges Coste
Georges Coste
Georges Coste is a French rugby union coach and former player.-Biography:Coste debuted playing as fly half in the local club U.S.A. Perpignan, and scored several caps for French junior national teams before his career was halted by a serious injury.As a coach, he trained U.S.A...
Georges Cottier
Georges Coudray
Georges Coudray
Georges Coudray was a French politician, and a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Popular Republican Movement....
Georges Courteline
Georges Courteline
Georges Courteline was a French dramatist and novelist.Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth...
Georges Couthon
Georges Couthon
Georges Auguste Couthon was a French politician and lawyer of the Revolutionary period.- Deputy :...
Georges Croegaert
Georges Croegaert
Georges Croegaert was a Belgian academic painter. He was born in Antwerp, Belgum in 1848, and spent most of his life in Paris. Croegaert is associated with both classicism and anti-clerical art.-References:...
Georges Crozier
Georges Crozier
Georges Crozier was a French international football player who became the first Frenchman to play in England when he joined Fulham of the Southern League in 1904. Eugène Langenove, who signed for Walsall in 1922, was the first French player to play in the Football League.-External links: *...
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier was a French naturalist and zoologist. Of humble working class origins, he belonged to a new class of self-made scholars who worked their way to the top of academe...
Georges Cziffra
Georges Cziffra
Georges Cziffra was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist. He became a French citizen in 1968....
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Georges d'Amboise
Georges d'Amboise
Georges d'Amboise was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and minister of state. He belonged to the house of Amboise, a noble family possessed of considerable influence: of his nine brothers, four were bishops. His father, Pierre d'Amboise, seigneur de Chaumont, was chamberlain to Charles VII and...
Georges Dandelot
Georges Dandelot
Georges Édouard Dandelot was a French composer.-Biography:Dandelot's father was Alfred Dandelot, and his mother was the daughter of a piano maker...
Georges Danton
Georges Danton
Georges Jacques Danton was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. Danton's role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed; many historians describe him as "the chief force in theoverthrow of the monarchy and...
Georges Darboy
Georges Darboy
Georges Darboy was a French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy then archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown....
Georges Dard
Georges Dard
Georges Dard was a French football midfielder.-External links:* * *...
Georges Darien
Georges Darien
Georges Darien , , was a French writer associated with anarchism and an outspoken advocate of Georgism.- Life :...
Georges d'Armagnac
Georges d'Armagnac
Georges d'Armagnac was a French humanist, patron of arts, Cardinal and diplomat deeply embroiled in the Italian Wars and in the French Wars of Religion.-Bigoraphy:...
Georges de Beauregard
Georges de Beauregard
Georges de Beauregard was a French film producer who produced works from many of the French New Wave directors....
Georges de Brébeuf
Georges de Brébeuf
Georges de Brébeuf was a French poet and translator most well-known for his verse translation of Lucan's Pharsalia which was warmly received by Pierre Corneille, but which was ridiculed by Nicolas Boileau in his Art poétique....
Georges de Feure
Georges de Feure
Georges de Feure was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer in the symbolism and Art Nouveau styles....
Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès
Georges de la Falaise
Georges de la Falaise
Comte Louis Venant Gabriel de la Falaise was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century....
Georges de la Nézière
Georges de la Nézière
Georges de la Nézière was a French athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Nézière competed in the 800 metres. He placed third in his preliminary heat and did not advance to the final....
Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour was a painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which became part of France the year before his death...
Georges de la Trémoille
Georges de la Trémoille
Georges de la Trémoille was count of de Guînes from 1398 to 1446 and Grand Chamberlain of France to King Charles VII of France. He sought reconciliation between Philip, Duke of Burgundy and Charles VII during their estrangement in the latter part of the Hundred Years' War...
Georges de Layens
Georges de Layens
Georges de Layens was a French botanist and apiculturalist. He was the creator of a popular mobile beehive called the "Layens hive".He published numerous works on beekeeping and botany...
Georges-Daniel de Monfreid
Georges-Daniel de Monfreid
George-Daniel de Monfreid was a French painter and art collector.He was born the United States, but spent his childhood in the south of France...
Georges De Moor
Georges De Moor
Professor Georges J. E. De Moor is a Belgian MD and head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics of the University of Ghent .-Education:...
Georges de Paris
Georges de Paris
Georges de Paris is a French-American tailor who is often referred to as the President of the United States' unofficial tailor or the tailor to the Presidents...
Georges de Porto-Riche
Georges de Porto-Riche
Georges de Porto-Riche was a French dramatist and novelist.At the age of twenty, his pieces in verse began to be produced at the Parisian theatres; he also wrote some books of verse which met with a favorable reception, but these early works were not reprinted...
Georges de Rham
Georges de Rham
Georges de Rham was a Swiss mathematician, known for his contributions to differential topology.He studied at the University of Lausanne and then in Paris for a doctorate, becoming a lecturer in Lausanne in 1931; where he held positions until retirement in 1971; he held positions in Geneva in...
Georges de Scudéry
Georges de Scudéry
Georges de Scudéry , the elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry, was a French novelist, dramatist and poet.Georges de Scudéry was born in Le Havre, in Normandy, whither his father had moved from Provence...
Georges de Selve
Georges de Selve
Georges de Selve was a French scholar, diplomat and ecclesiastic.He was Bishop of Lavaur from 1526 to 1540...
Georges Decaux
Georges Decaux
Georges Decaux was a French professional road bicycle racer from 1952 to 1956. In 1952, Decaux won a stage in the Tour de France.- Palmarès :1952- External links :*...
Georges Delahaie
Georges Delahaie
Georges Delahaie born 21 June 1933 in Saint-Lambert, Maine-et-Loire district, is an abstract and expressionist French sculptor. His work is often incorporates French allegorical symbolism, as in his statue of La Marseillaise....
Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue was a French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television...
Georges Delfanne
Georges Delfanne
Georges Delfanne, called Christian Masuy was a Belgian collaborator and spy during the German occupation in World War II .- Life :...
Georges-Isidore Delisle
Georges-Isidore Delisle
Georges-Isidore Delisle was a politician in the Quebec, Canada. He served as Member of the Legislative Assembly. -Early life:He was born on June 30, 1856 in Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships.-Provincial Politics:...
Georges Demenÿ
Georges Demenÿ
-External links:* digitized by the...
Georges Depping
Georges Depping
Georges Bernard Depping , also known as Georg Bernhard Depping, born in Münster, was a German-French historian.He went to Paris in 1803, where he lived as teacher and writer...
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles , was a businessman, statesman and Canadian senator. Dessaulles holds the record for the oldest serving politician...
Georges Desvallières
Georges Desvallières
Georges Desvallières was a French painter.A native of Paris, Desvallières was a great-grandson of academician Gabriel Legouvé, and received a religious upbringing. He studied at the Académie Julian with Tony Robert-Fleury and with Jules Valadon at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts...
Georges Detreille
Georges Detreille
Georges Detreille was a French racing cyclist who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he won the gold medal as member of the French team in the team time trial competition after finishing sixth in the individual time trial event.-External links:*...
Georges Diebolt
Georges Diebolt
Georges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Diébolt, was a French sculptor best known for his publicly-commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides.-Life:Trained at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts in...
Georges Dimou
Georges Dimou
Georges Dimou is a Greek singer born in Thessaloniki. He studied dramatic and vocal art in Athens and from the beginning he was successful as actor and singer with international repertoire.-Golden Medal for Merits of the Federal Land Vienna:...
Georges Dionne
Georges Dionne
is a full Professor of Finance and holds the Canada Research Chair in Risk Management at , Canada. He is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance of and in the Economic Department at , France....
Georges Doeuillet
Georges Dor
Georges Dor
Georges Dor was a Québécois author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator, and theatrical producer and director....
Georges Doriot
Georges Doriot
Georges F. Doriot was one of the first American venture capitalists. In 1946, he founded American Research and Development Corporation, the first publicly owned venture capital firm...
Georges Doussot
Georges Doussot
Georges Doussot was a French boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the first round of the welterweight class after losing his fight to Al Mello.-External links:*...
Georges Dransart
Georges Dransart
Georges Dransart was a French sprint canoer who competed from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one silver and two bronzes .Dransart won two silver medals at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the C-2...
Georges Dreyer
Georges Dreyer
Georges Dreyer was a Danish pathologist who was born in Shanghai, where his father was stationed as an officer with the Royal Danish Navy. In 1900 he earned his medical degree at the University of Copenhagen, and subsequently worked as a bacteriologist, which included time spent at Finsen...
Georges Duboeuf
Georges Duboeuf
Georges Duboeuf is the founder of Les Vins Georges Duboeuf, one of the largest and best-known wine merchants in France...
Georges Duby
Georges Duby
Georges Duby was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s until his death in 1996.Born in 1919...
Georges Dufrénoy
Georges Dufrénoy
Georges Dufrénoy was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism.-Biography:He was born in Thiais, France. His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th century building in which he lived all his life...
Georges Duhamel
Georges Duhamel
Georges Duhamel , was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit , the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin...
Georges Dumas
Georges Dumas
Georges Dumas was French doctor and psychologist.His main work is the The Treatise of Psychology . He wrote many articles and leaded the publication in two volumes of the treaty in which the main French psychologists of the time participate...
Georges Dumézil
Georges Dumézil
Georges Dumézil was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society...
Georges Dumont
Georges Dumont
Georges L. Dumont was a physician and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Restigouche County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a Liberal member from 1960 to 1966....
Georges-Hilaire Dupont
Georges-Hilaire Dupont
Georges-Hilaire Dupont, O.M.I. is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic ChurchGeorges-Hilaire Dupont was born in Virey, France, and was ordained a the priest on May 9 1943 from the religious order Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Dupont was appointed Diocese of Pala on January 16 1964...
Georges-Hippolyte le Comte Dupré
Georges-Hippolyte le Comte Dupré
Georges-Hippolyte le Comte Dupré was a businessman, official and political figure in Lower Canada. He was also known as Saint-Georges Dupré....
Georges-Mathieu de Durand
Georges-Mathieu de Durand
Georges-Mathieu de Durand was a Canadian Dominican specialized in patristics and Christology.A professor at the University of Montreal, he is particularly known for his contributions to the Sources Chrétiennes collection...
Georges Duval de Leyrit
Georges Duval de Leyrit
Georges Duval de Leyrit was Governor General of Pondicherry between 1754 and 1758. He was preceded by Charles Godeheu and succeeded by as Arthur, comte de Lally-Tollendal.-Titles:...
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Georges Eekhoud
Georges Eekhoud
Georges Eekhoud was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French.Eekhoud was a regionalist best known for his ability to represent scenes from rural and urban daily life...
Georges El Ghorayeb
Georges El Ghorayeb
Georges El Ghorayeb of Beirut, Lebanon is one of 12 elected volunteer members of the World Scout Committee, the main executive body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, and serves as liaison to external Scout bodies International Link of Orthodox Christian Scouts and the International...
Georges Eo
Georges Eo
Georges Eo is a French football manager and former midfielder. He was assistant manager of Nantes from 1987 to 2005, during which time the club won 2 Ligue 1 titles...
Georges Erasmus
Georges Erasmus
Georges Henry Erasmus, OC is a Canadian Aboriginal politician. He was the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 1985 to 1991....
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Georges Farrah
Georges Farrah
Georges Farrah, PC is a Canadian politician.-Background:Born in Cap-aux-Meules, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, the son of Arthur Farrah and Hilda Boudreau, he was educated in administration at the University of Moncton....
Georges Fenech
Georges Fenech
-Biography:Born to a Maltese father and Italian mother in Sousse in Tunisia, in 1963 Fenech's family was repatriated in France, where they settled in Givors. After studying for a law degree, he started a career as a judge...
Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau, was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque. He was especially known for his many lively farces.-Biography:...
Georges Figon
Georges Figon
Georges Figon was the French crook that arranged the meeting with Mehdi Ben Barka in the Brasserie Lipp. Later he told L'express that he had seen who killed Barka. He accused General Oufkir whom he saw kill Barka. Before the second trial Figon was found dead in his apartment, according to official...
Georges Fleurix
Georges Fleurix
Georges Fleurix was a Belgian water polo player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he won the silver medal with the Belgian water polo team. He played five matches and scored one goal....
Georges Florovsky
Georges Florovsky
Georges Vasilievich Florovsky was an Eastern Orthodox theologian, historian and pioneering ecumenist...
Georges Fouré
Georges Fouré
Georges Fouré was a 19th century French-German philatelist and stamp forger.Fouré lived in Berlin and was the editor of the Berliner Illustrierte Briefmarkenzeitung. As such he introduced his audience to remarkable "discoveries" of stamps of the German States that in reality he had created...
Georges Fournier
Georges Fournier
Georges Fournier was a French astronomer.He observed the planet Mars with great detail. In 1909 he was credited with discovering clouds on the planet. During the campaign to observe Mercury between 1924 and 1929 he was the only experienced observer who doubted the deduced rotational period...
Georges Franju
Georges Franju
Georges Franju was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, France.-Early life:Before working in French cinema, Franju had several different jobs. These included working for an insurance company and in a noodle factory. Franju was also briefly in the military in Algeria and was discharged in...
Georges Frêche
Georges Frêche
Georges Frêche is a French politician. As of 2006, he serves as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, as well as President of the Agglomeration of Montpellier. A former mayor of Montpellier, and a former Deputy in the National Assembly, he is a history of law professor at University...
Georges Friedel
Georges Friedel
Georges Friedel was a French mineralogist and crystallographer.- Life :Friedel was the son of the famous chemist Charles Friedel. He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris and the École Nationale des Mines in St. Etienne, and was a student of François Ernest Mallard...
Georges Friedmann
Georges Friedmann
Georges Philippe Friedmann , French Sociologist.Georges Friedmann was the founder of a human work sociology after World War II. In 1921, after studying industrial chemistry, he entered a teacher training college on the rue d'Ulm, in Paris, France. During the war, he was an intellectual Marxist...
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Georges Galinat
Georges Galinat
Georges Galinat was a French boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the first round of the heavyweight class after losing his fight to Edward Greathouse.-External links:*...
Georges Gandil
Georges Gandil
Georges Gandil is a French sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s. He won two bronze medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning them in the C-2 1000 m and C-2 10000 m events.-References:*...
Georges Garnier
Georges Garnier
Georges Garnier was a French football player who competed in the 1900 Olympic Games.In Paris he won a silver medal as a member of Club Française club team.-External links:* *...
Georges Garvarentz
Georges Garvarentz
Georges Garvarentz is an Armenian-French composer, noted for his music for Charles Aznavour's songs.-Biography:Georges Garvarents was born in Athens, Greece, to a family of Armenian immigrants...
Georges Gauthier
Georges Gauthier
Georges Gauthier was a French Canadian Archbishop of Montreal and the first rector of the Université de Montréal....
Georges Gautschi
Georges Gautschi
Georges Harold Roger Gautschi was a Swiss figure skater. He won the bronze medal in men's singles at age nineteen at the 1924 Chamonix Olympics. He went on to come in third at the 1926 European Figure Skating Championships and then came in second in 1929...
Georges Géret
Georges Géret
Georges Géret , was a French film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1954 and 1992.He was born in Lyon, France.-Selected filmography:* Le mataf * Crime on a Summer Morning * L'Insoumis...
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette was a French neurologist who is the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition.During 1873 Tourette began medical studies at Poitiers...
Georges Gilson
Georges Gilson
Georges Robert Edmond Gilson is a French Catholic bishop.He served initially as auxiliary to Cardinal Marty of Paris. On the appointment of Cardinal Lustiger, he was rapidly appointed to the see of Le Mans...
Georges Gimel
Georges Gimel
Georges Gimel born March 8, 1898 at Domène , France; died January 21, 1962 at Megève , France. French painter of portraits, landscapes, mountain landscapes, still lifes and flowers.He was also wood carver, lithographer, illustrator, set designer, sculptor, and inventif enamel...
Georges Girard
Georges Girard
Georges Girard was a French bacteriologist who was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1911 he received his Bachelor's degree, and in 1914 his medical doctorate...
Georges Gorse
Georges Gorse
Georges Gorse, French politician and diplomat, .After qualifying in 1939 he became professor at the University of Cairo...
Georges Gourdy
Georges Gourdy
Georges Gourdy is a French boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the second round of the flyweight class after losing his fight to Rinaldo Castellenghi.-External links:*...
Georges Goven
Georges Goven
Georges Goven is a retired tennis player from France. Goven won the French Championships junior title in 1964, 1965, and 1966, and the Australian Championships juniors in 1964. He reached the semifinals in both singles and doubles at the 1970 French Open...
Georges Goyau
Georges Goyau
Georges Goyau was a French historian and essayist specializing in religious history.-Biography:He was born in Orleans, where he went to school before moving on to Lycée Louis-le-Grand and then École Normale Supérieure both in Paris. Then he became lecturer at the French School of Rome, an...
Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente
Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente
Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Le Mans from 1918 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.-Biography:...
Georges Grignard
Georges Grignard
Auguste Georges Paul Grignard was a racing driver from France. He raced in Formula One from 1947 to 1953, participating in 1 World Championship Grand Prix on October 28, 1951...
Georges Groussard
Georges Groussard
Georges Groussard is a retired French cyclist. Groussard was professional from 1960 to 1967.Groussard participated in 7 Tour de Frances, and wore the yellow jersey for 9 consecutive days in 1964...
Georges Grün
Georges Grün
Georges Grün is a former Belgian football defender and is now a TV presenter for the UEFA Champions League matches at RTL TVI....
Georges Guenette
Georges Guenette
Georges Guénette was a deserter from the Canadian Army and, like many French Canadians during World War II, an opponent of the war and conscription ....
Georges Guibourg
Georges Guibourg
Georges Guibourg was a French singer, author, writer, playwright, and actor, George Guibourg, alias Georgius, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years....
Georges Guillain
Georges Guillain
Georges Charles Guillain was a French neurologist.He was born in Rouen. After customary schooling, Georges Guillain commenced the study of medicine in his native town, but after two years moved to Paris, where he received his clinical education at several hospitals...
Georges Gurvitch
Georges Gurvitch
Georges Gurvitch was a Russian born French sociologist and jurist. One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a specialist of the sociology of knowledge. In 1944 he founded the journal Cahiers internationaux de Sociologie...
Georges Guynemer
Georges Guynemer
Georges Guynemer was a French national hero during World War I, and a top fighter ace at the time of his death.-Early life and military career:...
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Georges Hamacek
Georges Hamacek
Georges Marion Pierre Hamacek was a French Army officer, who fought in World War II in the French Resistance and in the First Indochina War in the Foreign Legion.-Biography:...
Georges Hartmann
Georges Hartmann
Georges Hartmann was a French dramatist and opera librettist who wrote under the pen name Henri Grémont.Since 1870 he was also a music publisher, publishing compositions of Jules Massenet...
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Georges Hayem
Georges Hayem
Georges Hayem was a physician and hematologist who was a native of Paris. He studied medicine in Paris, and later became a professor of therapy and materia medica. From 1878 until 1911 he practiced medicine at the Hôpital Tenon, and afterwards was associated with the Hôpital St...
Georges Hebbelinck
Georges Hebbelinck
Georges Hebbelinck was a Flemish writer.-Bibliography:* Kroesbal uit het Zoniënwoud * Het meisje in de kelder * De rozen van Kazanlik * De journalist...
Georges Hebdin
Georges Hebdin
Georges Hebdin was a Belgian football player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Belgium team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament.-External links:*...
Georges Hébert
Georges Hector
Georges Hector
Georges Paul Hector was a Haitian painter. Born in the small rural town of Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite, Hector specialized in landscapes and murals. His works were exhibited in the Caribbean, the United States, and Senegal. Hector also served as General Secretary of the National Association of...
Georges Hellebuyck
Georges Hellebuyck
Georges Hellebuyck was a Belgian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Belgian boat Antwerpia V, which won the bronze medal in the 8 metre class ....
Georges Henry
Georges Henry
Georges Henry is a French-Brazilian musician born in Paris in 1919. He played with Django Reinhardt in the late 1930's in Paris were he became a good friend of singer Henri Salvador. Henry then joined the Lecuona Cuban Boys as a trumpet player. During the Second World War, he met Salvador in...
Georges Heylens
Georges Heylens
Georges Heylens is a former Belgian football player who played with R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium national football team. He played in the match Belgium-Netherlands in 1964 with 10 fellows from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean Trappeniers...
Georges Holvoet
Georges Holvoet
Baron Georges Josephus Lamoraldus Maria Gislemus Holvoet Baron Georges Josephus Lamoraldus Maria Gislemus Holvoet Baron Georges Josephus Lamoraldus Maria Gislemus Holvoet (Antwerp, 16 August 1874 – Elsene, 23 April 1967 was a Belgian lawyer and Roman Catholic politician...
Georges Hüe
Georges Hüe
Georges Adolphe Hüe was a French composer of classical music.-Biography:Georges Hüe was born in Versailles into a noted family of architects. His musical education included studies with Charles Gounod and César Franck. In 1879, he won the Prix de Rome with his cantata Médée...
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Georges Ifrah
Georges Ifrah
Georges Ifrah is a professor of mathematics, and a historian of mathematics, especially numerals.-Publications:* Histoire universelle des chiffres Georges Ifrah (Marrakech 1947-) is a professor of mathematics, and a historian of mathematics, especially numerals.-Publications:* Histoire...
Georges Imbert
Georges Imbert
Georges Christian Peter Imbert born March 25, 1884 in Niederstinzel, Lorraine died February 6, 1950 in Saar Union, Alsace. Around 1920 developed the wood gas generator for the automobile that was commonly used in Europe until petroleum fuel became more economical in the region. He studied chemical...
Georges Irat
Georges Irat
The Georges Irat was a French automobile manufactured by engine builder Georges Irat from 1921 to 1953.The company's first product was an ohv 1990cc four-cylinder car designed by Maurice Gaultier who had been with Delage. This was joined in 1926 by a 2985 cc six-cylinder...
Georges Izambard
Georges Izambard
George Alphonse Fleury Izambard was a French professor, known especially as the teacher of poet Arthur Rimbaud....
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Georges Jacob
Georges Jacob
Georges Jacob was one of the two most prominent Parisian master menuisiers, producing carved, painted and gilded beds and seat furniture and upholstery work for the French royal châteaux, in the early Neoclassical style that is usually associated with Louis Seize.Jacob arrived in Paris in 1754 and...
Georges Jacobs
Georges Jacobs
Georges, count Jacobs de Hagen is a leading Belgian businessman.Jacobs obtained a PhD degree in Law and a Licentiate in Economics from the Universite Catholique de Louvain . He also obtained a MA degree in Economics at the University of California .Jacobs started his career as an economist with...
Georges Janssen
Georges Janssen
Georges Janssen was a Belgian lawyer, civil servant and governor of the National Bank of Belgium from 1938 until 1941.-Career:...
Georges Jobé
Georges Jobé
Georges Jobé is a former five-time FIM motocross world champion from Belgium. In addition, Jobé also won several Belgian national motocross championships in a professional motocross career that spanned from 1979 to 1992....
Georges Jules Piquet
Georges Jules Piquet
Georges Jules Piquet was Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic.-Titles Held:...
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Georges J. F. Köhler
Georges J. F. Köhler
Georges Jean Franz Köhler was a German biologist.Together with César Milstein and Niels K. Jerne, Köhler won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984, "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies"...
Georges Kopp
Georges Kopp
Georges Kopp, was a Belgian engineer who volunteered to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, rising to become commander of the 3rd Regiment, Lenin Division, a militia unit belonging to the POUM which saw active service on the Aragon front, later incorporated into the regular army as...
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Georges-C. Lachance
Georges-C. Lachance
Georges-C. Lachance was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a lawyer by career.He was first elected at the Lafontaine riding in...
Georges Lacombe (film director)
Georges Lacombe (film director)
-Filmography:* 1928 : La Zone * 1931 : Boule de gomme* 1932 : La Femme invisible* 1933 : Un jour d'été* 1933 : Ce cochon de Morin* 1934 : Jeunesse* 1935 : Épousez ma femme* 1935 : La Route heureuse...
Georges Lacombe (painter)
Georges Lacombe
Georges Lacombe
Georges Lacombe was a French sculptor and painter.Born to a distinguished family of Versailles, he received his artistic training at the Académie Julian from the impressionists Alfred Roll and Henri Gervex...
Georges Ladoux
Georges Ladoux
Georges Ladoux was an army captain and the head of French counter-espionage during World War I, described as " a plump, square-faced man given to smoking a pipe and slicking his dark hair back with shiny oils." He was responsible for recruiting Mata Hari as a French spy...
Georges Lafontaine
Georges Lafontaine
Georges Lafontaine was a politician in the Quebec, Canada. He served as an official opposition Member of the Legislative Assembly in the early twentieth century.-Provincial Politics:...
Georges Lagouge
Georges Lagouge
Georges Lagouge was a French gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was part of the French team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1920.-External links:*...
Georges Lagrange
Georges Lagrange
Georges Lagrange, was a French esperanto writer, member of Academy of Esperanto. He translated several theater pieces from French to Esperanto, plaid as actor in some of them, and wrote poems and detective novels under pseudonym Serĝo Elgo....
Georges Lakhovsky
Georges Lakhovsky
Georges Lakhovsky was a Russian engineer, scientist, author and inventor. His medical treatment invention, the Multiple Wave Oscillator, is considered quackery by mainstream medicine.-Georges Lakhovsky history:...
Georges Lamia
Georges Lamia
Georges Lamia is a French former football goalkeeper.He played for France at the Euro 1960.-References:* *...
Georges-Émile Lapalme
Georges-Émile Lapalme
Georges-Émile Lapalme was a politician in Quebec, Canada, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, and leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.-Background:...
Georges Laraque
Georges Laraque
Georges Laraque is a professional ice hockey forward, and a radio host for CFRN. He and former teammate Francis Bouillon are among the very few NHL players of Haitian descent. He is currently playing for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League as an enforcer. He is also known as "Big...
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner is a French film director and screenwriter.He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr.- As director :* 1958 : La Môme aux boutons* 1960 : Arrêtez les tambours* 1960 : Marche ou crève...
Georges Lech
Georges Lech
Georges Lech is a French retired football player. He is of Polish descent.-External links:*http://www.sitercl.com/Fichejo/L/lechgeor.htm*http://www.fff.fr/servfff/historique/historique.php?id=LECH%20Georges...
Georges Leclanché
Georges Leclanché
Georges Leclanché was a French electrical engineer chiefly remembered for his invention of the Leclanché cell, one of the first modern electrical batteries and the forerunner of the modern dry cell battery.-Biography:...
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist and encyclopedic author. His collected information influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier...
Georges Lecointe
Georges Lecointe
Georges Lecointe was a French rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French boat in the coxed fours event.-External links:*...
Georges Leekens
Georges Leekens
Georges Leekens is the football manager for Belgian club KV Kortrijk, and a former football player.- Coaching Career :He used to coach the Belgium national football team and led it to the 1998 FIFA World Cup finals after a two-legged win against the Republic of Ireland in the qualifying playoff...
Georges Lefebvre
Georges Lefebvre
Georges Lefebvre was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He coined the term "history from below", which was later popularised by the British Marxist Historians...
Georges Legrain
Georges Legrain
Georges Legrain was a French Egyptologist.- Research :He was involved in the excavations in Aswan. He spent many years with his research in the Temple of Karnak. Since 1907 he was a main supervisor in Luxor....
Georges Lemaire
Georges Lemaire
Georges Lemaire was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who became Belgian road race champion in 1932. In 1933, he finished the Tour de France in 4th place, having worn the yellow jersey for two days...
Georges Lemaître
Georges Lemaître
Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of physics and astronomer at the Catholic University of Leuven...
Georges Lentz
Georges Lentz
Georges Lentz is a contemporary classical composer, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Australia. Despite his relatively small output, he is now also considered one of Australia's leading composers.-Life:Lentz studied at the...
Georges Léonnec
Georges Léonnec
Georges Léonnec , the brother of the novelist Félix Léonnec, began his career as a cartoonist selling drawings to newspapers in 1899. After participating in World War I he become the official illustrator of the magazine la Vie Parisienne. He is also well known for his illustrations used in the...
Georges Leredu
Georges Leredu
George Leredu, lawyer, was mayor of Franconville-la-Garenne from 1908 to 1919, deputy from 1914 to 1927 then senator until 1936. He was Minister for Health after having been a Secretary of State of the Liberated Regions during a few months from February 20, 1920....
Georges-Henri Lévesque
Georges-Henri Lévesque
Georges-Henri Lévesque, CC, OQ was a Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist.Born in Roberval, Quebec, the son of Georges Lévesque and Laura Richard, he was ordained into the priesthood in 1928.-Honours:...
Georges Lévis
Georges Lévis
Georges Lévis was a French adult comic artist.Under the name of Jean Sidobre, he was also the illustrator of the French edition of the Famous Five and other children books....
Georges Leygues
Georges Leygues
Georges Leygues was a French politician of the Third Republic. During his time as Minister of Marine he worked with the navy's chief of staff Henri Salaun in unsuccessful attempts to gain naval re-armament priority for government funding over army rearmament such as the Maginot Line.He was born...
Georges Limbour
Georges Limbour
Georges Limbour was a French writer of prose and poetry.He was a member of the Surrealist Movement in Paris during the 1920s, but was expelled from the group in 1929. Before his association with André Breton and the Surrealists, Limbour co-edited, along with Roger Vitrac and Rene Crevel, the...
Georges Loustaunau-Lacau
Georges Loustaunau-Lacau
Georges Loustaunau-Lacau was a French army officer, anti-communist conspirator, resistant, and politician.Loustaunau-Lacau was born in Pau and in 1912 began his studies at the French Army's officer school, the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr...
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Georges Madon
Georges Madon
Georges Felix Madon was the fourth ranked French ace pilot of the First World War. His lengthy career and wide variety of aviation experiences were remarkable.-Early years:...
Georges Mager
Georges Mager
Georges C. Mager was a French musician, and principal trumpet with the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1919 until his death in 1950. He was a renowned trumpeter in Paris before the First World War, playing at the Paris Opera, Concerts Lamoureux, and the Concerts of the Society of the Conservatory...
Georges Malbrunot
Georges Malbrunot
George Malbrunot is a French journalist working for Le Figaro who, along with Christian Chesnot and their driver Muhammed al-Jundi, was taken hostage on August 20, 2004, by the Islamic Army in Iraq. This group gave the French government a 48-hour deadline to repeal its law against girls wearing the...
Georges Malfait
Georges Malfait
Georges W. Malfait was an French athlete who competed at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, and the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm....
Georges Malkine
Georges Malkine
Georges Alexandre Malkine was the only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924; the other signatories were, for the most part, writers...
Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel was a French politician, journalist, and French Resistance leader.-Biography:Born Louis George Rothschild in Chatou, Yvelines, the son of a tailor: his family was Jewish, and had fled from Alsace to preserve their French citizenship when Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by the German...
Georges Mandjeck
Georges Mandjeck
Georges Constant Mandjeck is a Cameroonian football midfielder who plays for 1. FC Kaiserslautern on loan from VfB Stuttgart.-Stuttgart:...
Georges Mantha
Georges Mantha
Georges Leon Mantha was a Canadian ice hockey forward born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada.Mantha played his National Hockey League career with the Montreal Canadiens. His career lasted from 1928 to 1941. His brother Sylvio Mantha also played in the NHL. Mantha would win two Stanley Cups in his...
Georges Marchais
Georges Marchais
Georges René Louis Marchais was the head of the French Communist Party from 1972 to 1994, and a candidate in the French presidential elections of 1981 - in which he managed to garner only 15.34% of the vote, which was considered at the time a major setback for the party.-Early life:Born into a...
Georges Marchal
Georges Marchal
Georges Marchal was a French actor.He was married to Dany Robin and was the preferred star of Luis Buñuel . On TV he has played Claude Jade's father in TV-series The Island of Thirty Coffins....
Georges Mareschal
Georges Mareschal
Georges Mareschal was a French surgeon who was a native of Calais. In 1707 he was ennobled, and was known as Georges Mareschal, seigneur de Bièvre....
Georges Marrane
Georges Marrane
Georges Marrane was a French politician. He was the candidate of the French Communist Party for the presidential election of 1958....
Georges Martin (freemason)
Georges Martin (freemason)
Georges Martin was a French doctor, politician and Freemason.He was initiated on 21 March 1879 into the Union et Bienfaisance lodge of the Grande Loge de France. He was one of the founders of France's "Symbolic Scottish Grand Lodge". From 1890, he worked unsuccessfully for women's initiation...
Georges Matheron
Georges Matheron
Georges François Paul Marie Matheron was a French mathematician and geologist, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co-founder of mathematical morphology. In 1968 he created the Centre de Géostatistique et de Morphologie Mathématique at the Paris School of Mines in Fontainebleau...
Georges Mathieu
Georges Mathieu
Georges Mathieu is a French painter in the style of lyrical abstraction.-Biography:He was born in in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, and gained an international reputation in the 1950s as a leading Abstract Expressionist. His large paintings are created very rapidly and impulsively...
Georges Meekers
Georges Meekers
Georges J. M. Meekers is a wine writer and educator.His writing career began in the 1990s, when he wrote a wine column for Malta Today. He continues to contribute to The Times of Malta and several international wine trade magazines, such as Harpers Magazine, with vintage reports on Malta and other...
Georges Melchior
Georges Melchior
Georges Melchior , was a French actor of the silent era. He appeared in 67 films between 1911 and 1937.-Selected filmography:* L'Atlantide * Fantômas...
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès , full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects...
Georges Menahem
Georges Menahem
Georges Menahem is a French sociologist and economist whose work employs methods drawn from economics, sociology and statistics...
Georges Meunier
Georges Meunier
Georges Meunier was a French professional road bicycle racer. He won two stages in the Tour de France. In 1960, he became French national cyclo-cross champion.- Palmarès :1950...
Georges Miez
Georges Miez
Georges Miez was a Swiss gymnast, Olympic Champion and World Champion. He competed at the 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics, winning a total of four Olympic gold medals, three silver medals and one bronze medal....
Georges Migot
Georges Migot
Georges Migot was a prolific French composer. Though primarily known as a composer, he was also a poet, often integrating his poetry into his compositions, and an accomplished painter.- Dramatic :...
Georges Miquelle
Georges Miquelle
George Miquelle was born in Lille, France, and began his studies at the age of five when he entered the Lille Conservatoire. At seven, he took up the cello, studying under Emil Dienne. Before he was 19 he had won two first prizes playing at the Lille Conservatoire and at the Paris Conservatoire...
Georges Montefiore-Levi
Georges Montefiore-Levi
Georges Montefiore-Levi was a Belgian inventor of Jewish origin who invented phosphorus bronze. He was also an active philanthropist. One of Belgium's oldest engineering schools, the "Institut Montefiore" in Liège bears his name....
Georges Mora
Georges Mora
Georges Mora was a German-born Australian entrepreneur, art dealer, patron, connoisseur and restaurateur.- Early life :Mora was born Gunter Morawski in 1913 in Leipzig, Germany of Jewish/Polish heritage. As a young medical student Mora became a member of a communist cell and fled Germany to Paris...
Georges Moustaki
Georges Moustaki
Yussef Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki, is a singer and songwriter from France of Greek Jewish origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs...
Georges Mouton
Georges Mouton
Georges Mouton, comte de Lobau was a French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France.-Early career:Born in Phalsbourg, Lorraine, he enlisted in the French Revolutionary Army in 1792...
Georges Mouyémé
Georges Mouyémé
Georges Mouyémé-Elong is a retired Cameroonian football player who played for Troyes and Angers. He participated at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1996 African Cup of Nations.-References:...
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Georges Nagelmackers
Georges Nagelmackers
Georges Nagelmackers was the founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains....
Georges Neveux
Georges Neveux
Georges Neveux was a French dramatist and poet.Neveux's first notable work was the play Juliette ou la clé des songes , written in 1927 and produced in 1930. It became the basis of Martinů's opera, Julietta and for the 1951 film Juliette, or Key of Dreams...
Georges Nomarski
Georges Nomarski
Georges Nomarski was a Polish physicist and optics theoretician. Creator of Nomarski Interference Contrast or differential interference contrast microscopy , the method is widely used to study live biological specimens and unstained tissues.-Biography:Born in Nowy Targ, Nomarski was educated in...
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Georges Ohnet
Georges Ohnet
Georges Ohnet was a French novelist and man of letters.After the Franco-Prussian War he became editor of the Pays and the Constitutionnel in succession. In collaboration with the engineer and dramatist Louis Denayrouze Georges Ohnet (3 April 1848 in Paris – 1918) was a French novelist and man of...
Georges Oltramare
Georges Oltramare
Georges Oltramare was a Swiss author and fascist politician who became involved in collaboration in Nazi-occupied France....
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Georges Painvin
Georges Painvin
Georges Jean Painvin was a French cryptanalyst during the First World War. His most notable achievement was the breaking of the ADFGVX cipher in June 1918.Before the First World War, Painvin taught paleontology and geology...
Georges Palante
Georges Palante
Georges Toussaint Léon Palante was a French philosopher and sociologist.He advocated aristocratic individualist ideas similar to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. He was opposed to Émile Durkheim's holism, promoting methodological individualism instead.-Life:Palante was born in Blangy-les-Arras in the...
Georges Panayotis
Georges Panayotis
Georges Panayotis is a French/Greek businessman and consultant for the tourism, hotel and hospitality industries. He has contributed to establishing more than 2,500 hotels in France and throughout Europe, representing a global investment of over 10.5 billion euros.-Early Life:Born into a family of...
Georges Parent
Georges Parent
Georges Parent was a Canadian lawyer, politician and Speaker of the Canadian Senate from 1940 until 1942....
Georges Pasquier
Georges Pasquier
Georges Pasquier was an early twentieth century French road racing cyclist who participated in the 1903 Tour de France in 1903 and finished eighth....
Georges Passerieu
Georges Passerieu
Georges Passerieu was a French professional road bicycle racer, who won seven stages in the Tour de France, and reached the podium twice. He also was the winner of Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours.- Palmarès :...
Georges Patient
Georges Patient
Georges Patient is a member of the Senate of France, representing the territory of French Guyana. He is a member of the Socialist Party.-References:*...
Georges Paulais
Georges Paulais
Georges Paulais was a French film actor. He appeared in 145 films between 1910 and 1956.He was born in Guimps, Charente, France and died in Chabanais, Charente, France.-Selected filmography:...
Georges Paulin
Georges Paulin
Georges Paulin was a dentist, part-time automobile designer and hero of the French Resistance during the Second World War. He was born 1902 in a working class section of Paris....
Georges Paulmier
Georges Paulmier
Georges Paulmier was a French professional road bicycle racer, who won two stages in the early Tour de Frances.- Palmarès :1908- External links :...
Georges Perec
Georges Perec
Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group.-Life:...
Georges Périnal
Georges Périnal
Georges Périnal was a French cinematographer.-Partial filmography:*The Blood of a Poet *Under the Roofs of Paris *À nous la liberté *Catherine the Great...
Georges Perros
Georges Perros
Georges Perros was a French writer.He was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1973....
Georges Petit
Georges Petit
Georges Petit was a French art dealer, a key figure in the Paris art world and an important promoter and cultivator of Impressionist artists.-Early career:...
Georges Peyroche
Georges Peyroche
Georges Peyroche is a French football player and manager.-References:***...
Georges Pharand
Georges Pharand
Georges Hector Pharand was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1911 as a Conservative member....
Georges Philippe
Georges Philippe
Georges Philippe was the pseudonym used by Philippe de Rothschild during his brief career as a motor racing driver in 1928 and 1929. He raced his own Bugatti T35C with moderate success, including coming fourth in the 1929 Monaco Grand Prix...
Georges Pichard
Georges Pichard
Georges Pichard was a French comics artist, known for numerous BD magazine covers, serial publications and albums, stereotypically featuring partially exposed voluptuous women.-Biography:...
Georges Picot
Georges Picot
Georges Marie René Picot was a French lawyer and historian.Born in Paris, son of Charles Picot and wife Henriette Bidois , his main work is Histoire des États généraux for which he twice gained the prize of the French Academy...
Georges Picquart
Georges Picquart
Marie Georges Picquart , was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in exposing the truth in the Dreyfus Affair....
Georges Pintens
Georges Pintens
Georges Pintens is a former professional road bicycle racer from Belgium who excelled at one-day classic races during the 1960s and 1970s....
Georges Piot
Georges Piot
Georges Piot was a French rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he won the silver medal with his partner Maurice Bouton in the coxless pairs event....
Georges-René Pléville Le Pelley
Georges Politzer
Georges Politzer
Georges Politzer was a French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" . He was a native of Oradea-Nagyvárad, a city in present-day Romania.-Biography:Politzer was already a militant by the time of his involvement...
Georges Polti
Georges Polti
Georges Polti was a French writer from the mid-19th century . He is best-known today for his list of thirty-six dramatic situations and for writing Art of Inventing Characters .-External links:* Full text of available at Internet Archive* Full text of ...
Georges Pompidou
Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a French politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974....
Georges Pouchet
Georges Pouchet
Charles Henri Georges Pouchet was a French naturalist and anatomist who was born in Rouen. He was the son of naturalist Félix Archimède Pouchet ....
Georges Poulet
Georges Poulet (disambiguation)
Georges Prêtre
Georges Prêtre
Georges Prêtre is a French conductor.He was born in Waziers , and attended the Douai Conservatory and then studied harmony under Maurice Duruflé and conducting under André Cluytens among others at the Paris Conservatoire. Amongst his early musical interests were jazz and trumpet...
Georges Prud'Homme
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Georges Querelle
Georges Querelle
Georges "Jo" Querelle is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle de Brest.-Character overview:A sailor on the cargo ship Le Vengeur, Querelle is also a thief, a prostitute, an opium smuggler, and a serial killer...
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Georges Rawiri
Georges Rawiri
Georges Rawiri was a Gabonese politician, diplomat and poet.Rawiri was born in western Gabon. He became a prominent government official in 1967 when President Omar Bongo took office, with Bongo and Rawiri becoming close friends...
Georges Rayet
Georges Rayet
Georges Antoine Pons Rayet was a French astronomer.He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began working at the Paris Observatory in 1863. He worked on meteorology in addition to astronomy...
Georges Reeb
Georges Reeb
Georges Henri Reeb was a French mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and Non-Standard Analysis....
Georges Renaud
Georges Renaud
Georges Renaud was a French chess master, theoretician and organizer.He won the first French Chess Championship at Paris 1923...
Georges Renavent
Georges Renavent
Georges Renavent was a star of American classic films, Broadway plays and operator of American Grand Guignol. He was born in Paris, France....
Georges Rey
Georges Rey
Georges Rey is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland.His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind takes the reader into the middle of contemporary debates in philosophy of mind...
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes was a French writer and artist associated with the Dada movement. He was born in Montpellier....
Georges Ricard-Cordingley
Georges Ricard-Cordingley
A painter and traveller, Georges Ricard-Cordingley constantly searched for an original contact with the world of sea.- Biography :* 1873 - January 30 : Georges Ricard born in Lyon, to parents Prosper Louis Ricard and Georgina Marie Cordingley...
Georges Richard
Georges Richard
Georges Richard was a Frenchman who ran a short lived automobile manufacturing firm from 1897 under his own name, copying Benz cars of the era. In 1900, he bought a licence from the Belgian Vivinus to build voiturettes. The designer Brasier joined the firm in 1902 and the marque became...
Georges Rigal
Georges Rigal
Georges Rigal was a French water polo player and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Paris....
Georges Robin
Georges Robin
Georges Robin , also known as Jorj Robin, was a sculptor and designer from Nantes.Robin was a member of the Breton nationalist art movement Seiz Breur, working at the magazine Kornog, founded by the movement's leader René-Yves Creston...
Georges Rochegrosse
Georges Rochegrosse
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse was a French historical and decorative painter.He was born at Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. His themes are generally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale and in an emotional...
Georges Rodenbach
Georges Rodenbach
Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist.- Biography :...
Georges Roesch
Georges Roesch
Roesch, Georges was a Swiss-born automotive engineer. At 25, he was hired by the British Clément-Talbot in 1916 as Chief Engineer. By 1920 Talbot merged with both Darracq and Sunbeam to form STD Motors. The first successful post war model was a Georges Roesch designed six cylinder high speed...
Georges Ronsse
Georges Ronsse
Georges Ronsse was a two-time national cyclo-cross and two-time world champion road bicycle racer from Belgium, who raced between 1926 and 1938....
Georges Rossignon
Georges Rossignon
Georges Rossignon was a French boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the light heavyweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming gold medalist Harry Mitchell.-External links:*...
Georges Rouault
Georges Rouault
Georges Henri Rouault
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was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching.-Childhood and education:Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family...
Georges Rousse
Georges Rousse
Georges Rousse is a French photographer.Rousse's work, from the 1990s to today, generally appears at first glance to be photos of desolate or abandoned spaces often on their way to the wrecking ball, on which the artist has superimposed precise geometrical shapes or squiggly graffiti.However,...
Georges Roux
Georges Roux
Georges Roux was a French artist and book illustrator. His best-known works today are a large number of illustrations he created for the science-fiction novels of Jules Verne, in the series Les voyages extraordinaires...
Georges Ruggiu
Georges Ruggiu
Georges Henri Yvon Joseph Ruggiu was a presenter on the Rwandan radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, which played a significant role in promoting the Rwandan Genocide. Like the station's other broadcasters, Ruggiu incited violence against Tutsis over the air...
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Georges Saadeh
Georges Saadeh
Georges Saadeh was a Lebanese politician. He was appointed as a minister in several governments and was the head of Kataeb party for twelve years....
Georges Sada
Georges Sada
General Georges Hormiz Sada is an Iraqi of Assyrian descent, an author and retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force....
Georges Sadoul
Georges Sadoul
Georges Sadoul was a French journalist and cinema writer.Once a surrealist, he became a communist in 1932. He was a journalist of the Lettres Françaises....
Georges Sagnac
Georges Sagnac
Georges Sagnac was a French physicist who lent his name to the Sagnac effect, a phenomenon which is at the basis of interferometers and ring laser gyroscopes developed since the 1970s....
Georges Saillard
Georges Saillard
Georges Saillard was a French film actor.He starred in some 52 films between 1909 and 1950.He died in Versailles on September 11 1967- External links :...
Georges Sainte-Rose
Georges Sainte-Rose
Georges Sainte-Rose is a retired French triple jumper. He formerly represented Martinique. His cousins Robert Sainte-Rose and Lucien Sainte-Rose have won international medals in athletics as well.-Achievements:...
Georges Santos
Georges Santos
Georges Santos is a French-born Cape Verde professional footballer, currently without a club.-Club career:...
Georges Scelle
Georges Scelle
Georges Scelle was an international jurist and member of the United Nations International Law Commission....
Georges Schneider
Georges Schneider
Georges Schneider was a Swiss alpine skier and world champion.He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds.Schneider became a world champion in the slalom in Aspen in 1950, before Zeno Colo and Stein Eriksen....
Georges Schoeters
Georges Schoeters
George Schoeters was one of the founders and a leader of the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group in 1963. During World War II, Schoeter worked as a courier for the Belgian Resistance, thus beginning his clandestine career....
Georges Schwizgebel
Georges Schwizgebel
Georges Schwizgebel is a Swiss animation film director whose paint-on-glass-animated 2004 film L'Homme sans ombre won various awards....
Georges Scott
Georges Scott
Georges Scott was a French war correspondent and illustrator for the French magazine L'Illustration during the early 20th century....
Georges Sébastian
Georges Sébastian
Georges Sébastian was a French conductor of Hungarian birth, particularly associated with Wagner and the post-romantic repertory ....
Georges-Pierre Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seurat
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was a French painter and draftsman. His large work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte , his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting.-Life:Seurat...
(1859-1891), French painter and founder of neo-impressionism
Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian crime writer. A prolific author who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known for the creation of the fictional detective Maigret....
Georges Sorel
Georges Sorel
Georges Eugène Sorel was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists, it is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered. Orson J...
Georges Speicher
Georges Speicher
Georges Speicher was a French cyclist who won the 1933 Tour de France along with three stage wins, and the 1933 World Cycling Championship.- Palmarès :19311932...
Georges Spénale
Georges Spénale
Georges Spénale is a French writer, poet and politician. He was the president of the European Parliament from 1975 to 1977....
Georges St.-Pierre (b.1981), French-Canadian mixed martial artist
Georges Stein
Georges Stein
Georges Stein was a French Impressionist painter. She was best known for her scenes of Parisian street life.-References:*...
Georges Suarez
Georges Suarez
Georges Suarez was a French writer, essayist and journalist. Initially a pacifist, then a collaborator , he was also the biographer of Pétain and other figures of the Troisième République...
Georges Sylvain
Georges Sylvain
Georges Sylvain was a Haitian poet, lawyer and diplomat. Born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Sylvain studied in his native city before attending school in Paris and receiving a law degree. After returning to Haiti, he founded a law school and two periodicals, La Patrie and, in 1922, l'Union...
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Georges Taillandier
Georges Taillandier
Georges Taillandier was a French racing cyclist who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the gold medal in the men's sprint....
Georges Tanguay
Georges Tanguay
Georges Tanguay was a Canadian politician.Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Georges Tanguay and Adeline Mathieu, Tanguay was elected without opposition to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of Lac-Saint-Jean in 1900. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1904 and did not...
Georges Thenault
Georges Thenault
Captain Georges Thenault was the commander of the Lafayette Escadrille - the famed branch of the French air force in World War I composed of American volunteer pilots. The Lafayette Escadrille was created before the United States gave up its neutrality, and joined France and England in its war...
Georges Theunis
Georges Theunis
Georges Emile Léonard Theunis was Prime Minister of Belgium from 16 December 1921 to 13 May 1925 and again from 20 November 1934 to 25 March 1935. He was governor of the National Bank of Belgium from 1941 until 1944.He received a military training and was also trained as an engineer...
Georges Thiébaud
Georges Thiébaud
Georges Thiébaud was a French journalist, Bonapartist and nationalist. He and comte Dillon launched an American-style press campaign in favour of général Boulanger....
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, in religion Louis de la Trinité was a priest, diplomat and French Navy officer and admiral; he became one of the major personalities of the Free French Forces and the Forces navales françaises libres...
Georges Thill
Georges Thill
Georges Thill was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor...
Georges Thines
Georges Thines
Georges Thines, a Belgian scientist, was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences in 1971 for his work on experimental psychology at the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology of the Universite Catholique de Louvain.-External links:*...
Georges Thurnherr
Georges Thurnherr
Georges Thurnherr was a French gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was born in Eglingen and died in Belfort.In 1908 he finished 18th in the all-around competition....
Georges Thurston
Georges Thurston
George Thurston was a Quebec singer, author and composer and radio show host. He was known as Boule Noire since 1975 and worked in the music industry as a solo artist for nearly 30 years and as part of musical groups for 5 years.-Early years:Born in Bedford, Quebec, Thurston later moved to...
Georges Touquet-Daunis
Georges Touquet-Daunis
Georges Touquet-Daunis was a French track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.Touquet-Daunis competed in the marathon. He was one of six runners who did not finish the race.-References:...
Georges Troisfontaines
Georges Troisfontaines
Georges Troisfontaines was the founder of the World Press agency, and one of the co-authors of the series Buck Danny.After his first work for the comics magazine Spirou before WWII, in which he published strips in relation to aviation, he created in the 1940s the World Press agency...
Georges Turcot
Georges Turcot
Georges Turcot was a Canadian politician.Born in Ste-Marie de Beauce, Canada East, the son of Augustin Turcot, and Margaret Tardif, he was educated at the College of Ste. Marie. A merchant, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Mégantic in the 1887 federal election...
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Georges Urbain
Georges Urbain
Georges Urbain - French chemist, professor of Sorbona. He studied at the elite École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris . He discovered the element Lutetium in 1907.-References:...
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Georges Vacher de Lapouge
Georges Vacher de Lapouge
Georges Vacher de Lapouge was a French anthropologist and a theoretician of eugenics and racialism.- Biography :...
Georges Valade
Georges Valade
Georges-Joseph Valade was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons...
Georges Valensi
Georges Valensi
Georges Valensi was a French telecommunications engineer who, in 1938, invented and patented a method of transmitting color images so that they could be received on both color and black & white television sets....
Georges Valois
Georges Valois
Georges Valois was a French journalist and politician.-Life and career:Born in a working-class and peasant family, Georges Valois went to Singapore at the age of 17, returning to Paris in 1898 . In his early years he was an Anarcho-syndicalist. He found work as a secretary at L'Humanité Nouvelle...
Georges Van Haelen
Georges Van Haelen
Georges Van Haelen was a Belgian boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the second round of the middleweight class after losing to Daniel Daney.-External links:*...
Georges van Vrekhem
Georges van Vrekhem
Georges Van Vrekhem is a Flemish-speaking Belgian journalist, poet and playwright, who was the artistic manager of a professional theater company, the "Nederlands Toneel te Gent". He became acquainted with the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in 1964. In 1970 he joined the Sri Aurobindo...
Georges Vandenberghe
Georges Vandenberghe
Georges Vandenberghe was a professional Belgian cyclist.Vandenberghe participated in 7 Tours de France between 1965 and 1971...
Georges Vanier (disambiguation)
Georges Vanier (disambiguation)
Georges Vanier was a Canadian soldier and former Governor General of Canada.Georges Vanier may also refer to:*École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier, a high school in Hamilton, Ontario*École secondaire Georges-Vanier in Laval, Quebec...
Georges Vanier
Georges Vanier
Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who, until his death, served as the Governor General of Canada. He was appointed as such by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of then Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, to replace Vincent Massey as...
Georges Vantongerloo
Georges Vantongerloo
Georges Vantongerloo was a Belgian abstract sculptor and painter and founding member of the De Stijl group.-Life:...
Georges Vedel
Georges Vedel
Georges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.-Biography:Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in France].” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies...
Georges Vereeken
Georges Vereeken
Georges Vereeken was a Belgian socialist. He was born in Gent, Belgium in 1896 and died in Brussels in 1978. He was a taxi driver by trade. From 1925, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Parti Communiste de Belgique but was active in Brussels in the Belgian Section of the International...
Georges Verriest
Georges Verriest
Georges Verriest was a French footballer. He played for RC Roubaix, and earned 14 caps for the France national football team, and scored a goal in the 1934 FIFA World Cup.-External links:*...
Georges Vézina
Georges Vézina
Joseph-Georges-Gonzague Vézina was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played seven seasons in the National Hockey Association and nine in the National Hockey League , all with the Montreal Canadiens...
Georges Vianès
Georges Vianès
Georges Jean Gabriel Vianès is a former French civil servant, corporate officer and politician. He was head of the French National Intellectual Property Institute , the French national intellectual property office from 1975 to 1982...
Georges Vuilleumier
Georges Vuilleumier
Georges Vuilleumier was a Swiss football striker.He got 19 caps and 2 goals for Switzerland between 14 November 1964 and 18 November 1973. He was an unused substitute at the 1966 World Cup.- Clubs :...
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Georges Wakhévitch
Georges Wakhevitch
Georges Wakhévitch was an art director .He was raised in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s....
Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson
This Article is about the French Actor, for the character of Dennis the Menace see Mr. WilsonGeorges Wilson is an French film and television actor.Wilson was born in Paris, France; to an French father, and an Irish mother...
Georges Wohlfart
Georges Wohlfart
Dr Georges Wohlfart is a Luxembourgian politician. A member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, Wohlfart served in consecutive cabinets, under Jacques Santer and Jean-Claude Juncker, from 1989 until 1999, holding positions including Minister of Health ....
Georges Wolinski
Georges Wolinski
Georges Wolinski is a French cartoonist and comics writer.-Biography:After discontinuing his architecture studies in Paris, Georges Wolinski began cartooning in 1960, contributing political and erotic cartoons and comic strips to the satirical monthly Hara-Kiri.
During the student...
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Georges Zvunka
Georges Zvunka
Georges Zvunka is a retired French football player and manager.He is the brother of Jules Zvunka and Victor Zvunka.-References:*...
Places
Georges at the Cove, restaurant in
La Jolla, San Diego, California
La Jolla, San Diego, California
La Jolla is a wealthy seaside resort community, occupying seven miles of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. Although within the city limits of San Diego, California, La Jolla retains its own small-town atmosphere and its own civic pride...
Georges Creek
Georges Creek
Georges Creek is a tributary stream of the North Branch Potomac River in Western Maryland. The creek has its headwaters near Frostburg and empties into the North Branch Potomac River at Westernport all in western Allegany County, Maryland. Along the Georges Creek Valley, there exists a series of...
Georges Creek Valley
Georges Creek Valley
Georges Creek Valley is located in Allegany County, Maryland along the George's Creek. The valley is rich in wide veins of coal, known historically as the "The Big Vein." Coal was once extracted by deep mines but is only mined today through surface mining...
Georges Hall, New South Wales
Georges Hall, New South Wales
Georges Hall is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Georges Hall is located 24 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Bankstown and is part of the South-western Sydney region.Georges Hall is bounded by...
Georges Head Battery
Georges Head Battery
The Georges Head Battery is located on Georges Head, in the suburb of Mosman in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Georges Head battery is one of three forts in the area that were built for the purpose of defending the outer harbour...
Georges Heights, New South Wales
Georges Heights, New South Wales
Georges Heights is an urban locality in the suburb of Mosman, in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Georges Heights is located in the local government area of the Municipality of Mosman and is part of the Lower North Shore.-History:...
Georges Island
Georges Island
Georges Island is one of the islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, situated just over from downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of , plus an intertidal zone of a further , and rises to a height of above sea level. Historic Fort Warren is on the island...
Georges Island (Massachusetts)
Georges Island (Nova Scotia)
Georges Labit Museum
Georges Labit Museum
The Georges Labit Museum , located in Toulouse, France, is dedicated to artifacts from the Far-Eastern and Egyptian civilizations....
Georges Mill, Virginia
Georges Mill, Virginia
Georges Mill is an unincorporated village in northern Loudoun County, Virginia. The community takes its name from the mill that once operated there on Dutchman Creek to the north of Elvan. Georges Mill is located at the crossroads of Irish Corner Road and Georges Mill Road .- External links :...
Georges Quay (Dublin)
Georges Quay (Dublin)
Georges Quay is a street in Dublin between Burgh Quay and Hawkins Street, in the west to City Quay and Moss Street in the east. Tara Street railway station is on this street and both Butt Bridge and Tara Street meet a short distance to the west of the station.It is one of the Dublin quays....
Georges River
Georges River
The Georges River is a waterway in the state of New South Wales in Australia. It rises to the south-west of Sydney near the coal mining town of Appin, and then flows north past Campbelltown, roughly parallelling the Main South Railway...
Georges River College Hurstville Boys Campus
Georges River College Hurstville Boys Campus
Georges River College Hurstville Boys Campus, , is situated in the city of Hurstville in the Sydney region. The school caters for the educational needs of boys in the area of St...
Georges River National Park
Georges River National Park
Georges River is a national park in New South Wales , 18 km southwest of Sydney. It is set along the Georges River, and is run by the National Parks and Wildlife Service....
Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier
École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier
École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier is a French first language high school located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It serves the French population ofBrant, Haldimand, Norfolk, Halton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Waterloo, and Wellington....
, a high school in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
École secondaire Georges-Vanier
École secondaire Georges-Vanier
École Secondaire Georges-Vanier is a public high school located in Laval, Quebec. It is named for Governor General of Canada Georges Vanier.-Special Programs:...
in Laval, Quebec, Canada
Georges P. Vanier Secondary School
Georges P. Vanier Secondary School
Georges P. Vanier Secondary School's doors opened in January 1968 completing a move of students from the old Courtenay Sr. high school which was located next to our school board office off Cumberland Road. The school was named after one of Canada's most popular Governor-Generals. Vanier...
in Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
Georges Vanier Catholic School
Georges Vanier Catholic School
Georges Vanier Catholic School is a Canadian elementary school in the community of Beaverbrook, in Ottawa, Ontario, on 40 Varley Drive. It has classes from junior kindergarten to grade 6. The school is in the Zone 2 school board district of the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board...
Georges Vanier Elementary School in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Georges Vanier Secondary School
Georges Vanier Secondary School
Georges Vanier Secondary School is a public high school located in Toronto, Ontario. It is named for Governor General of Canada Georges Vanier.-Fields of study:* Visual Arts* Business Studies* Canadian and World Studies* International Languages* English...
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Georges-Vanier (Montreal Metro)
Georges-Vanier (Montreal Metro)
Georges-Vanier is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is located in the Little Burgundy area of the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ....
Georgescu
Georgescu
Georgescu, a family name common in Romania, may refer to:* Andrei Georgescu, soccer player* Dudu Georgescu, soccer player* Dumitru Georgescu-Kiriac, composer and conductor* Elena Georgescu, coxswain* Haralamb H...
Georgeson Botanical Garden
Georgeson Botanical Garden
The Georgeson Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 117 West Tanana Drive on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. The garden is used for both research and demonstration, and is open to the public during daylight hours, May through September, for a fee. It...
Georgestown, St. John's
Georgestown, St. John's
Georgestown is a neighbourhood near the downtown of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It is bordered by Military Road, Monkstown Road, Empire Avenue, and Bonaventure Avenue. It was settled as the city's first suburb in the early 1800s. The name is an evolution of "George 's Town", as it was...
Georgesville, Ohio
Georgesville, Ohio
Georgesville is an unincorporated community in western Pleasant Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States. It is located southwest of Columbus, the county seat of Franklin County and the capital and largest city of Ohio...
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Georges (Green Card character)
Georges (novel)
Georges (novel)
Georges is a short novel by Alexandre Dumas, père set on the island of Mauritius, from 1810 to 1824. This novel is of particular interest because Dumas reused many of the ideas and plot devices later in The Count of Monte Cristo, and because race and racism are at the center of this novel, and this...
Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye is a 2004 experimental film adaptation of the 1928 novel by the French writer Georges Bataille. The film, directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney, takes place in a seemingly abandoned house where a group of people engage in wordless acts of passion...
Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad
Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad
The Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad was a railroad that operated in Maryland from 1876 until 1917, when it was merged with the Western Maryland Railway...
Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company
Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company
The Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company is a defunct coal mining, iron producer and railroad company that operated in Maryland from 1835 to 1863-Formation:The GCC&I was formed in 1835, and chartered in the State of Maryland on March 29, 1836....
Georges Creek Railroad
Georges Creek Railroad
The Georges Creek Railroad was a railroad operated by the Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company in Western Maryland. The railroad operated from 1853 to 1863, when it was acquired by the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad .- History :...
Georges Levy G.L.40
Georges Leygues (D640)
Georges Leygues class frigate
Georges Leygues class frigate
The Georges Leygues class is a class of anti-submarine frigates of the French Navy. They are polyvalent , due to their Exocet and Crotale missile complement, making them especially suitable for defense of strategic positions, demonstrations, or highseas escorts.The superstructures were built as to...
Georges Méliès filmography
Georges Méliès filmography
List of films directed by Georges Méliès.
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Georges Perec: A Life in Words
Georges Perec: A Life in Words
Georges Perec: A Life in Words is an authoritative biography of Georges Perec by David Bellos, Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, who also translated Perec's major novel Life: A User's...
Georges Valentine (shipwreck)
Georges Valentine (shipwreck)
The Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site is an historic U.S. Italian barkentine shipwreck located off the coast of Hutchinson Island in Martin County, Florida, with the nearest landmark being the House of Refuge. The ship sank in a storm on October 16, 1904. On July 19, 2006, it was added to the U.S....
Hurricane Georges (disambiguation)
Hurricane Georges (disambiguation)
The name Hurricane Georges was available for use for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean every 6 years in the period 1980-1998. The convention is that the name is retired after a major hurricane.Prior to 1979, only female names were used...