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- 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 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 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 is a lawyer and a Lebanese politician. He currently holds the position of vice-president of the executive committee of the Lebanese Forces party. He has been an MP in the Lebanese Parliament as a representative of Chouf district since the 2005 legislative elections.Adwan was member...
- Georges Agabekov
Georges Agabekov , was a Soviet Red Army soldier, Chekist, OGPU Agent, Chief of OGPU Eastern Section...
- Georges Akieremy
Georges Akieremy Owondo is a Gabonese football striker currently playing for Ironi Ramat HaSharon.-International career:...
- 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 was 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 AD as a unit and showed that it had doubled in 1500, doubled again in 1750 and again in 1900...
- Georges André
Géo André was a French sportsman who is notable as an Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the high jump and as an international rugby union player.-Personal history:...
- Georges Andrique
Georges Andriques was a French Impressionist painter. He was born and died in Calais . 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 Anglade was a Haitian-Canadian geographer, writer and politician. A strong opponent of the Duvalier régime in Haiti, Anglade was imprisoned for political reasons in 1974 and fleed the country upon release...
- Georges Annenkov
- 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
-Biography:Arnaud was born in Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, Camargue, Gard.He 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 Chroniques de la Longue...
- Georges Arvanitas
Georges Arvanitas was a jazz pianist and organist.- Life and career :He began life as a child of Greek immigrants from Constantinople. At the age of four he began studying piano and initially trained as a classical. However he switched to jazz some time in his teens and would be known for jazz in...
- 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."-References:...
- Georges Auric
Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Georges Caussade, and under the composer Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum...
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- Georges Ba
Georges Ba is an Ivory Coast born football striker.-Career:Ba has played for a number of clubs in France and also for Israel's Maccabi Netanya...
- 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:* Maison de la Catalanité, Perpignan * , Kongsberg, Norway * , Paris...
- Georges Balandier
Georges Balandier is a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa...
- 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 the 1900 federal election for the riding of Nicolet...
- 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 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 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 was a French writer. His multifaceted work is linked to the domains of literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art...
- 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 was a French association 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 is a former 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 or George P. Begue was a French engineer and agent in the Special Operations Executive.-Early life:...
- Georges Bénédite
- 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 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 was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix....
- 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.-Biography:Bernanos was born at Paris, into a family of...
- Georges Bernier
Georges Bernier , more commonly known as Le Professeur Choron, was a French humorist and founder of Hara Kiri magazine.-Early years:...
- 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 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 was an early leader of the 1791 slave rising in Saint-Domingue that began the Haïtian Revolution...
- Georges Bidault
Georges-Augustin Bidault was a French politician. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance. After the war, he served as foreign minister and prime minister on several occasions before he joined the Organisation armée secrète.-Early life:...
- Georges Biscot
Georges Biscot was a French film actor. He starred in some 28 films between 1916 and his death in 1944.He appeared in films such as Barrabas in 1920, and he died on 18 December 1944 in Paris.-Filmography:...
- Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
(1838–1875), French composer and pianist (Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet)
- 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 Louis Frederic Boillot was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot.-Biography:...
- Georges Bonnet
Not to be confused with the French Socialist Georges MonnetGeorges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party.- Early career :...
- Georges Boucher
- 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 was a Romani-Romanian violinist, conductor and composer.-Biography:Georges Boulanger was born in Tulcea, Romania from a Romani Romanian family with a very long tradition in music . His father's name was Vasile Pantazi. He was known as the typical Romanian Romani virtuoso...
- Georges Bouriano
Georges Bouriano was a Belgian 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[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...
- Georges Brassens
Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...
- 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...
- 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, CM, CQ is a famed entomologist and founder of the Montreal Insectarium .-Biography:...
- 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 was a French gynecologist who managed a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco and is widely credited with innovating modern sex reassignment surgery for trans women.Notable patients include Coccinelle, April Ashley and Jan Morris....
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- Georges Cadoudal
Georges Cadoudal , sometimes called simply Georges, was a French/Breton politician, and leader of the Chouannerie during the French Revolution....
- Georges Canguilhem
Georges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science .-Life and work:...
- 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 (born 13 August 1940 is a former French international footballer who played as 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...
- 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 is a former French footballer.-External links:**...
- 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.-Biography:...
- 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 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 .-External links:...
- 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 was the lanterne rouge.- Palmarès :19631965...
- Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak was a French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.-Life:Georges Charpak was born to Jewish family in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland . Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old...
- 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 , 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 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 was a Swiss historian, politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ....
- 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 is a Luxembourgish 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 was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths...
- Georges Clemenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 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 at the...
- 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 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 Louis Condominas was a French cultural anthropologist. He is best known for his field studies of the Mnong people of Vietnam.-Biography:...
- 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 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. His film credits include To Tama, Escape from L.A., La Pasión Turca, Vive La Mariée, Impromptu,...
- 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.-References:...
- 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 was a French politician, and a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Popular Republican Movement....
- 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 Auguste Couthon a French politician and lawyer in the French Revolution. Couthon would befriend Robespierre and serve on the Committee of Public Safety with him from 30 May 1793 until his and Robespierre’s deaths in 1794...
- Georges Croegaert
Georges Croegaert was a Belgian academic painter. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium 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 was a French international footballer 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: *...
- George Cydni
- Georges Cziffra
Georges Cziffra was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist. He became a French citizen in 1968.Cziffra is most known for his dazzling recordings of Franz Liszt's virtuoso works...
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- 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 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 Jacques Danton was 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 the...
- 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 was a French footballer who played midfielder.-External links:* * *...
- Georges Darien
Georges Darien , , was a French writer associated with anarchism and an outspoken advocate of Georgism.- Life :...
- 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.-Biography:...
- Georges de Beauregard
Georges de Beauregard was a French film producer who produced works from many of the French New Wave directors. In 1968, he was a member of the jury at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival....
- Georges de Brébeuf
Georges de Brébeuf was a French poet and translator best 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 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
Comte Louis Gabriel Venant de La Falaise, known as Georges 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 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 was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648...
- 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 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...
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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 MoorProfessor 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 ParisGeorges 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-RicheGeorges 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 RhamGeorges 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 ScudéryGeorges 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 SelveGeorges de Selve was a French scholar, diplomat and ecclesiastic.-Biography:He was the son of Jean de Selve, a jurist and Parlement president, and brother of Odet de Selve. Three other brothers served as diplomats...
Georges DecauxGeorges 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 DelahaieGeorges 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 DelerueGeorges Delerue , was a French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize , Emmy Award , Genie Award , ACE Award and Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979 for A...
Georges DelfanneGeorges Delfanne, called Christian Masuy was a Belgian collaborator and spy during the German occupation in World War II .- Life :...
Georges-Isidore DelisleGeorges-Isidore Delisle was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as Member of the Legislative Assembly.-Provincial Politics:Delisle was elected as a Liberal candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1908, representing the district of Saint-Maurice. He was re-elected in 1912, 1916...
Georges DemenÿGeorges Demenÿ was a French inventor, chronophotographer, filmmaker, and gymnast.-External links:* digitized by the...
Georges DeppingGeorges 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 DessaullesGeorges-Casimir Dessaulles , was a businessman, statesman and Canadian senator. Dessaulles holds the record for the oldest serving politician...
Georges DesvallièresGeorge 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 DetreilleGeorges 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 DieboltGeorges 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 DimouGeorges 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 Dionneis a full Professor of Finance and holds the Canada Research Chair in Risk Management at HEC Montréal, Canada. He is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance of The Georgia State University and in the Economic Department at Ecole Polytechnique, France.Dionne awards...
Georges DorGeorges Dor was a Québécois author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator, and theatrical producer and director....
Georges DoriotGeorges 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 DoussotGeorges Doussot was a French boxer. He competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924, Doussot was eliminated in the first round of the welterweight class after losing his fight to Al Mello.-External links:*...
Georges DransartGeorges 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 DreyerGeorges Dreyer ForMemRS was a Danish pathologist.He 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 DuboeufGeorges Duboeuf is the founder of Les Vins Georges Duboeuf, one of the largest and best-known wine merchants in France...
Georges DubyGeorges Duby was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages...
Georges DufrénoyGeorges 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 DuhamelGeorges 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 DumasGeorges Dumas was a French doctor and psychologist.His main work is The Treatise of Psychology . He wrote many articles and led the publication in two volumes of the treaty in which the main French psychologists of the time participate...
Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society...
Georges DumontGeorges 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 DupontGeorges-Hilaire Dupont, O.M.I. is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic ChurchDupont was born in Virey, France and was ordained a priest on May 9, 1943 from the religious order Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He was appointed Diocese of Pala on January 16, 1964 and ordained bishop May 1,...
Georges-Hippolyte le Comte DupréGeorges-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 DurandGeorges-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 LeyritGeorges 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 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. He tended to portray the dark side of human desire and write about social outcasts and the working...
- Georges El Ghorayeb
Georges El Ghorayeb of Beirut, Lebanon was 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...
- 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 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, 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
-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 was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque. He is remembered for his many lively farces.-Biography:Georges Feydeau was born in Paris, the son of novelist Ernest-Aimé Feydeau and Léocadie Bogaslawa Zalewska. At the age of twenty, Feydeau wrote his first comic...
(1862–1921), French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque
- Georges Figon
Georges Figon was a freelance barbouze 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 torturing Barka...
- 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 Vasilievich Florovsky was an Eastern Orthodox priest, theologian, historian and ecumenist. He was born in the Russian Empire, but spent his working life in Paris and New York...
- 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 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
-External links:* at Allmovie...
- Georges Frêche
Georges Frêche was a French politician. He served as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region from 2004 until his death: prior to that, he had been mayor of Montpellier for 27 years, and was also a former member of the National Assembly...
- Georges Friedel
Georges Friedel was a French mineralogist and crystallographer.- Life :Georges was the son of the famous chemist Charles Friedel...
- 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 was a French boxer. He competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924,Galinat was eliminated in the first round of the heavyweight class after losing his fight to Edward Greathouse.-External links:...
- Georges Gandil
Georges Gandil was 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 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 was 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 was a French Canadian Archbishop of Montreal and the first rector of the Université de Montréal....
- 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 was a French film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1954 and 1992. He was born in Lyon, France.-Selected filmography:* Diary of a Chambermaid * L'Insoumis...
- 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...
- 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 , was a French expressionist painter of portraits, landscapes, mountain landscapes, still lifes and flowers. He was also a wood carver, lithographer, illustrator, set designer, sculptor, and enamel painter....
- 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 was a French politician and diplomat.Born in Cahors, he qualified in 1939 as a professor at the University of Cairo...
- Georges Gourdy
Georges Gourdy was a French boxer. He competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924, Gourdy was eliminated in the second round of the flyweight class after losing his fight to Rinaldo Castellenghi....
- 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....
- Georges Goyau
Georges Goyau was a French historian and essayist specializing in religious history.-Biography:He was born in Orléans, 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 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
Auguste Georges Paul Grignard was a racing driver from France. He raced in Formula One from 1947 to 1953, participating in one World Championship Grand Prix on 28 October 1951...
- 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 Serge 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 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 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 Charles Guillain was a French neurologist born in Rouen.He studied medicine in Rouen and Paris, where he learned clinical education at several hospitals. He developed an interest in neurology, and his first important scientific work involved lesions of the plexus brachialis...
- 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. He held a chair in sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris.Gurvitch is...
- Georges Guynemer
Georges Guynemer was a top fighter ace for France during World War I, and a French national hero at the time of his death.-Early life and military career:...
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- 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 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 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 was a Flemish writer.-Bibliography:* Kroesbal uit het Zoniënwoud * Het meisje in de kelder * De rozen van Kazanlik * De journalist...
- 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 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 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 .-External links:...
- Georges Henry
- Georges Heylens
Georges Heylens is a former Belgian footballer. He played with R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium national football team. He took part in the match between Belgium and the Netherlands in 1964, with 10 teammates from the Anderlecht team, after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean...
- 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 Adolphe Hüe was a French composer of classical music.-Biography: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 is a French author and historian of mathematics, especially numerals. He was formerly a teacher of mathematics....
- 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
The Georges Irat was a French automobile manufactured by engine builder Georges Irat from 1921 to 1953.-Between two World Wars: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
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 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, 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...
- 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 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 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
-External links:* http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1984/...
- Georges Kopp
Georges Kopp, was an engineer who had lived in Belgium for about 25 years and 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 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification which saw active...
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- 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)
-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 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 transferred from counter-espionage to the Deuxième Bureau in February 1917. He was...
- 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 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....
- Georges Lagrange
Georges Lagrange, was a French esperanto writer, member of Academy of Esperanto...
- Georges Lakhovsky
Georges Lakhovsky was a Russian engineer, scientist, author and inventor. His medical treatment invention, the Multiple Wave Oscillator Oscillator, is considered quackery by mainstream medicine.-Georges Lakhovsky history:Georges Lakhovsky published books and articles that claimed and attempted...
- 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 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 is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward, who last played with the Montreal Canadiens before his contract was bought out in 2010. He is also a host for CFRN and deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada. During his NHL career he played for the Edmonton Oilers,...
- 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 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 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 was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier...
- 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 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 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 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
Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble...
- Georges Lentz
Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia...
- 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 worked as an illustrator for the magazine La Vie Parisienne. He worked for several other publications including Fantasio and Le...
- 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 19, 1920.-External links: Georges Leredu...
- Georges-Henri Lévesque
Georges-Henri Lévesque, 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...
- 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 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 was a French writer of prose and poetry.He was a member of the Surrealist Movement in Paris during the 1920s, but was expelled in 1929. Before his association with André Breton and the Surrealists, Limbour co-edited, along with Roger Vitrac and René Crevel, the avant-garde review...
- Georges Loustaunau-Lacau
Georges Loustaunau-Lacau was a French army officer, anti-communist conspirator, resistant, and politician.Loustaunau-Lacau was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques 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 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 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
George Malbrunot is a French journalist working for Le Figaro who, along with Christian Chesnot and their Syrian 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...
- 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 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 was a French politician, journalist, and French Resistance leader.-Biography:Born Louis George Rothschild in Chatou, Yvelines, was the son of a tailor...
- Georges Mandjeck
Georges Constant Mandjeck is a Cameroonian football midfielder who plays for French club Rennes in Ligue 1.-Stuttgart:...
- 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...
- 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 was a French actor, one of the most beautiful. He was married to Dany Robin, forming a famous and popular couple , they play together in movies La Passagère , La Voyageuse inattendue, Le plus joli péché du monde, Jupiter directed by Gilles Grangier , Quand sonnera midi written by...
- 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 was a French politician. He was the candidate of the French Communist Party for the presidential election of 1958....
- 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 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 is a French painter in the style of lyrical abstraction.-Biography:He was born 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 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 was a French actor of the silent era. He appeared in 67 films between 1911 and 1937.-Selected filmography:* Fantômas * L'Atlantide...
- 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 is a French sociologist and economist whose work employs methods drawn from economics, sociology and statistics...
- 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 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 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...
- 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 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 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
Giuseppe Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki , is a French singer and songwriter of Italo-Greek Jewish origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs...
- Georges Mouton
Georges Mouton, comte de Lobau was a French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France.-Biography:Born in Phalsbourg, Lorraine, he enlisted in the French Revolutionary Army in 1792...
- Georges Mouyémé
Georges L. 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 was the founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains....
- 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...
- 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 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 was a Swiss author and fascist politician who became involved in collaboration in Nazi-occupied France....
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- 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 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 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 was a Canadian lawyer, politician and Speaker of the Canadian Senate from 1940 until 1942....
- Georges Pasquier
- Georges Passerieu
Georges Passerieu was a British-born 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.-Biography:Passerieu first rode the Tour in 1906, after he had just become a professional...
- 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 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 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 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 was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He is a member of the Oulipo group...
- 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 was a French writer.He was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1973....
- 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 is a French football player and manager.-References:***...
- 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 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 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
Marie Georges Picquart , was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair.-Early career:...
- 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 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 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, a city in present-day Romania.-Biography:Politzer was already a militant by the time of his involvement in the...
- 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 available...
- 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.-Biography:...
- 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 Poulin
Georges Poulin was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He played his entire career with the Montreal Canadiens, winning the Stanley Cup in 1916.-External links:*...
- Georges Prêtre
- Biography :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 Conservatoire de Paris. Amongst his early musical interests were jazz and trumpet. After graduating, he conducted in a...
- Georges Prud'Homme
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- 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 was a Gabonese politician, diplomat and poet.-Biography: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-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 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 was a French chess master, theoretician and organizer.He won the first French Chess Championship at Paris 1923...
- Georges Renavent
Georges Renavent was an actor in American classic films, Broadway plays and operator of American Grand Guignol. He was born in Paris, France....
- 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 was a French writer and artist associated with the Dada movement. He was born in Montpellier....
- 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 was a French automobile that was manufactured from 1897 to 1902. Originally copying Benz cars of the era, Richard bought a licence, in 1900, from the Belgian Vivinus to build voiturettes. The designer Brasier joined the firm in 1902 and the marque became Richard-Brasier. Georges...
- 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.-Biography:He was born in Paris on January 6, 1890....
- 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 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 Raymond Constantin Rodenbach was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist.- Biography :Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland . He went to school in Ghent at the prestigious Sint-Barbaracollege, where he became friends with the poet...
- Georges Roesch
Roesch, Georges was a Swiss-born automotive engineer. At 25, he was hired by the London firm of Clément-Talbot in 1916 as Chief Engineer...
- 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 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 Henri Rouault[p] 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 is a French artist.When he was 9 years old, Rousse received the legendary Kodak Brownie camera as a Christmas gift. Since then, the camera has never left his side. While attending medical school in Nice, he decided to study professional photography and printing techniques, then...
- 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 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 was a Lebanese politician. He was appointed as a minister in several governments and was the head of Kataeb party for twelve years.-Early life and education:...
- 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 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 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. Sagnac died at Meudon-Bellevue....
- 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-Selected filmography:* Golgotha * J'accuse!...
- 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 "George" Santos is a former French-born Cape Verde professional footballer who played professionally between 1997 and 2009. He notably played for Tranmere Rovers, West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield United, Grimsby Town, Ipswich Town and Queens Park Rangers...
- Georges Scelle
Georges Scelle was an international jurist and member of the United Nations International Law Commission....
- 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
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 is a Swiss animation film director whose paint-on-glass-animated 2004 film L'Homme sans ombre won various awards....
- Georges Scott
Georges Bertin Scott was a French war correspondent and illustrator for the French magazine L'Illustration during the early 20th century....
- 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 was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising a technique of painting known as pointillism...
(1859–1891), French painter and founder of neo-impressionism
- Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian 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.-Early life and education:...
- 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. Oron J...
- 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 is a French writer, poet and politician. He was the president of the European Parliament from 1975 to 1977....
- Georges St-Pierre (born 1981), French-Canadian mixed martial artist
- Georges Stein
Georges Stein was a French Impressionist painter. She was best known for her scenes of Parisian street life.-References:*...
- Georges Stern, French jockey
- 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 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
Albert 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.-References:*...
- 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
Lieutenant ColonelAir force officer ranks 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...
- Georges Theunis
Georges Emile Léonard Theunis was the 24th 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 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, 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 was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor...
- 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 William Thornley
Georges William Thornley was a French painter and printmaker.A student of the French landscape painter Eugène Ciceri and Edmond Yon, Thornley became a successful artist remembered for his seascapes from Normandy and his landscapes from the French and Italian Rivieras...
(1857–1935), French painter and printmaker.
- 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
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 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 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 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 - French chemist, professor of Sorbonne. 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 was a French anthropologist and a theoretician of eugenics and racialism.- Biography :...
- Georges Valade
Georges-Joseph Valade was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons....
- 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 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...
- 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 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 was a professional Belgian cyclist.Vandenberghe participated in 7 Tours de France between 1965 and 1971...
- 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
Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 19th since Canadian Confederation....
- Georges Vantongerloo
Georges Vantongerloo was a Belgian abstract sculptor and painter and founding member of the De Stijl group.-Life:...
- 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 was a Belgian socialist. He was born in Ghent, 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...
- 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
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 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 was a Swiss football striker.He got 19 caps and 2 goals for Switzerland between 14 November 1964 and 18 November 1973...
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- Georges Wakhévitch
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 was a French film and television actor. He is the father of French actor Lambert Wilson.Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine , to a French father and an Irish mother...
- 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 and Trade Minister.-References:...
- 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 revolts of May...
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- Georges Zvunka
Georges Zvunka is a retired French football player and manager.He is the brother of Jules Zvunka and Victor Zvunka.-References:*...
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