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George Miffin Dallas (English: George Miffin Dallas, July 10, 1792 - December 31, 1864) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 11th Vice President of the United States (1845-1849), a federal senator, ambassador to Russia, and ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was born in Pennsylvania. His father was politician Alexander J. Dallas.

George Raymond Richard Martin (English: George Raymond Richard Martin, September 20, 1948 -), often called George R.R. Martin or GRRM, is an American writer and screenwriter who mainly creates fictional literary works in the styles of fantasy, horror and science fiction. His representative work is the series of epic fantasy novels "A Song of Ice and Fire", of which five have been published. It was adapted by HBO into the TV series "Game of Thrones" with a total of eight seasons and 73 episodes, which was broadcast from 2011 to 2019 and won many awards including the Emmy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2005, Martin was called "America's J.R.R. Tolkien" by Lev Grossman, a writer for Time magazine, and was selected by Time magazine as one of Time's 100 Greatest People in 2011. .

George Eastman (English: George Eastman, July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932), American inventor, founder of Kodak Company and inventor of film. Eastman was born in New York State in the United States in 1854. He had already devoted himself to social work as a boy and held low-level positions in insurance and banking. Later, he concentrated on developing photographic equipment and invented a film coated with a layer of dry gelatin in 1878. Prior to this, photographic negatives were wet films. In 1879, Eastman invented a milk coating machine and began mass production of dry films. In 1881, Eastman founded the Eastman Dry Plate Manufacturing Company, the predecessor of Kodak. In 1886, Eastman developed roll-type photosensitive film. In the same year, a new camera was also successfully developed. On March 14, 1932, Eastman shot himself in his home in Rochester, New York.

George Bernard Dantzig (English: George Bernard Dantzig, November 8, 1914 - May 13, 2005), an American applied mathematician, proposed the simplex method in 1947 and is known as the father of linear programming.

George Timothy Clooney (English: George Timothy Clooney, May 6, 1961 -) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer and social activist. He is also a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, one of the top 100 people of the times, and a holder of the French Order of Arts and Letters. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2005, he won the 78th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the movie "Spy vs. Spy". In 2017, he won the French César Film Award Lifetime Achievement Award. Naturalized in France in 2025.

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (French: Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑʁi ʒozɛf edwaʁ ləmɛtʁ]; July 17, 1894 – June 20, 1966) was a Belgian born in Charleroi, Belgium, and died in Leuven. Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, astrophysicist, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven. In "The Hypothesis of the Primitive Atom", he first proposed the theory of the Big Bang origin of the universe, pointed out that the cosmological red shift can be explained by the expansion of the universe, and estimated the Hubble constant in 1927. This theory was later confirmed by Edwin Hubble's observations, so the related discovery was previously named Hubble's law until the International Astronomical Union voted to change it to Hubble-Lemaître's law in October 2018 to commemorate Lemaître's contribution.

George Washington (English: George Washington; February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799), the founding father of the United States, served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. He commanded the Continental Army to defeat the British Empire in the American Revolutionary War, led the revolutionaries to gain independence, and was honored as the "Father of the Founding" by later generations of Americans. Washington was born in the Virginia colony and served as commander of the Army of Virginia during the Anglo-French North American War. Later, he was elected as a member of the Virginia House of Commons to oppose the British crown's oppression of the colonies. After the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. In March 1776, Washington won the siege of Boston, but was forced to evacuate New York in November of the same year. He then crossed the Delaware River in late 1776 and won the battles of Trident and Princeton, but was defeated at Brandywine and Germantown later that year. As the war dragged on, Washington began to face serious challenges such as doubts about its command ability, low morale, and lack of supplies. Finally, he led the American and French forces to achieve a decisive victory at the siege of Yorktown in 1781. The United Kingdom and the United States subsequently signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and Britain officially recognized the United States as an independent country. In 1787, Washington served as chairman of the Constitutional Convention and presided over the drafting of the current U.S. Constitution. In 1788 and 1792, Washington won the unanimous vote of the Electoral College twice and was re-elected as president for two terms. He established a strong and financially sound national government and remained neutral during the bitter battles between cabinet members Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. During the French Revolution, he announced a policy of neutrality and supported the signing of the Jay Treaty with Britain. Washington set many lasting examples for the presidency, including the establishment of republicanism, the peaceful transition of power, the use of the title "Mr. President," and the tradition of two terms in office. His "Farewell" in 1796 became a classic treatise on republicanism, emphasizing the importance of national unity and warning of the threats to the country from regionalism, partisanship, and foreign powers. As a tobacco and wheat planter at Mount Vernon, Washington owned many slaves; but in his later years, he began to oppose slavery and stipulated in his will that the slaves in his name be freed. Washington's image has become a symbol of American culture and is extremely widely commemorated. Geographic names named after him include the nation's capital and the state of Washington. In various folk and academic polls

George Catlett Marshall, Jr. (December 31, 1880 - October 16, 1959) was a U.S. Army general, politician, and diplomat. His highest military rank was a five-star general. He held important positions during World War II and the Cold War, and served as Army Chief of Staff, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense. Marshall led the Allied forces to win the war during World War II, and then went to China as an ambassador to try unsuccessfully to mediate the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Later, he advocated that the United States should help Europe recover after the war. In 1953, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the "Marshall Plan" and was the only U.S. Army general to receive this honor. Marshall was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1880 and graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1901. In February 1902, he became a second lieutenant in the infantry and immediately went to the Philippines. He has held various positions in the United States and overseas and has been promoted through the ranks. In 1907, he was ranked first among five honorary graduates of the Infantry and Cavalry School course, and the following year he graduated first from the Army Staff College. In 1916, Marshall became aide-de-camp to J. Franklin Bell, commander of the Western Military District. After the United States entered World War I in 1917, Marshall was sent to the staff of the 1st Division to assist the division in mobilizing and training in the United States and planning its combat operations in France. Thereafter, he was transferred to the staff of the American Expeditionary Forces Command and became an important formulator of U.S. military combat plans. After World War I, Marshall served as aide-de-camp to Army Chief of Staff John Pershing. Later, he served on the Army Staff and served as the executive officer of the 15th Infantry Regiment in China and an instructor at the Army War College. In 1927, he served as the vice president of the U.S. Army Infantry School and began to reform command and staff operating procedures, contributing to the subsequent performance of the U.S. military in World War II. From 1932 to 1933, he commanded the 8th Infantry Regiment at Fort Scriven, Georgia. From 1936 to 1938, Marshall served as commander of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division and Vancouver Barracks, and was promoted to brigadier general. At the same time, he was also responsible for overseeing 35 Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Oregon and southern Washington. In July 1938, Marshall was transferred to the Operations Planning Division of the War Department's General Staff Headquarters; he later became the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1939, after Army Chief of Staff Marlin Craig retired, Marshall first took over as acting chief of staff, and then officially became the Army Chief of Staff.

George Walton Lucas Jr. (English: George Walton Lucas Jr., May 14, 1944 -) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. His representative works are the epic "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" series (note: screenwriter). Among them, "Star Wars" has a high status in the hearts of Americans, and has also broken many box office records in the United States and around the world. The first "Star Wars" in 1977 had a global box office of 770 million US dollars, becoming the box office champion at the time. If inflation is calculated, the gross profit point is second only to "Gone with the Wind", making it the second highest-grossing movie in history. In 2015, Forbes Magazine estimated Lucas' personal wealth at $5.1 billion. Lucas was born in Modesto, California, where his father, George Walter Lucas Sr., owned a stationery store. While attending Downey High School, Lucas became interested in driving race cars and dreamed of becoming a professional race car driver. But a horrific car accident abruptly interrupts this dream and changes his perspective on life. In the 1960s, Lucas began studying film at the Film and Television Department at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, one of the first universities dedicated to film. There he made several short films, including an early version of "500 Years Later," which later became his first feature film. After graduation, he founded the American Motion Picture Studio with Francis Coppola, hoping to create an environment for filmmakers to express themselves freely outside the oppressive Hollywood studio system. Although the idea of ​​American moving pictures never really took off, the financial success of his films "American Graffiti" and "Star Wars" allowed Lucas to set up his own studio, Lucasfilm, in Marin County, California, north of his hometown. Skywalker Sound and Light & Magic Industries, the sound effects and visual effects subsidiaries of Lucasfilm, respectively, have become some of the most respected companies in their fields. Lucasfilm Games, later renamed LucasArts, also received very high attention in the computer game industry. "Star Wars" in 1977 is revered by some as the first "high concept" film, although others believe the first was Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" two years earlier. In fact, Lucas and Spielberg had known each other for a long time and collaborated on several subsequent films. Especially Indiana Jones from the first episode in 1981

George Harrison, MBE (English: George Harrison, February 25, 1943 - November 29, 2001), was a British guitarist, musician, singer, composer, music and film producer, who is world-famous as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. Although John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the band's main songwriters, most of their albums contained at least one Harrison song, including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something". The latter is the second most cover version of the Beatles song. Since 1965, the Beatles' albums have included at least two songs by Harrison.

George Ellery Hale (English: George Ellery Hale, June 29, 1868 - February 21, 1938), American astronomer.

George Westinghouse, Jr. (English: George Westinghouse, Jr., October 6, 1846 - March 12, 1914) was an industrialist, inventor, engineer and founder of Westinghouse Electric in Pennsylvania, United States. He invented the air braking system for trains and was a pioneer in the electric power industry. He obtained his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential of alternating current in electric power distribution systems. As early as the 1880s, he devoted all his resources to developing an alternating current system and bringing it to market. His actions caused his enterprise to compete directly with Edison's direct current system. In 1911, Westinghouse received the Edison Medal from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) for "outstanding contributions and achievements related to the development of alternating current systems."

George Bush (June 12, 1796 - September 19, 1859), male, was a theologian and speaker. He is a distant relative of former U.S. Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush.

George Robert Lazenby (English: George Robert Lazenby, September 5, 1939 -) is an Australian actor, famous for starring in the 1969 James Bond series "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".

George Joseph Stigler (English: George Joseph Stigler, January 17, 1911 - December 1, 1991), born in Seattle, Washington, United States, was an economist, historian of economics, professor at the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Economics. He is considered a member of the Chicago School of Economics and his stance is neoclassical economics.

Georges Politzer (French: Georges Politzer, May 3, 1903 - May 23, 1942), a Hungarian-Jewish French philosopher and Marxist theorist, nicknamed "the red-headed philosopher" (philosophe roux). Born in Oradea, present-day Romania (then Nagy Varad, Hungary). He was killed in the Holocaust.

George Hosato Takei Altman, also known as Takei Altman (Japanese: Takei Hogo／Takei Hosato, Romanized: Takei Hosato (born April 20, 1937) is a famous Japanese-American actor, director, writer and activist. He is famous for his role as Captain Light Sulu, the helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the American TV series "Star Trek". His surname is often mistranslated as "Takei", but when he returned to Hiroshima, Japan, he took out a family photo album with "Takei" written in Chinese characters.

Georges Bizet (French: Georges Bizet, pronounced: [ʒɔʁʒ bizɛ]; born Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; October 25, 1838 - June 3, 1875) was a French composer during the Romantic period. He was an opera composer who died young, and his composition career was not smooth during his lifetime. After his death, his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and most frequently performed works in the entire operatic repertoire. Bizet received many awards while studying at the Paris Conservatoire, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognized as an outstanding pianist in the academy, but he did not make a living playing the piano and rarely played in public. After studying in Italy for nearly three years, he returned to Paris and discovered that the Paris Opera favored famous and established operas over budding composers. As a result, most of his keyboard and orchestral works were ignored by the opera houses of the time, causing his career to stagnate and he needed to make a living by arranging and arranging other people's music. Even so, he still desired success and wrote many plays in the 1860s, most of which were abandoned. The two operas he composed during this period - "The Pearl Fishers" and "Le Belle Dame Perth" - were not premiered. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, Bizet served in the National Guard. After the war, his one-act opera "Jamile" was not successful. However, the incidental music he wrote for Alphonse Daudet's play "Les d'Allais" was adapted into an orchestral suite and became popular among the public. Bizet was concerned that Carmen's themes of betrayal and murder would offend audiences, so he delayed production of Carmen. After its premiere on March 3, 1875, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure. Three months later he died of a heart attack. Bizet was happily married to his wife, Genevieve Allévi, and they had a son. After his death, except for "Carmen", his works were generally ignored by the public. His manuscripts were lost and his works were often rewritten and adapted by others. He founded no school, trained no disciples, and had no successors. After being ignored for many years, his works began to gain popularity and be performed more frequently in the 20th century. After his death, critics praised him as a talented and original composer and considered his early death a great loss to the French opera world.

George Walker Bush (English: George Walker Bush, July 6, 1946-), an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States. Because his father, Bush Senior, also served as President of the United States, he is often called Bush Junior. Bush served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was elected president in the 2000 U.S. presidential election by winning the electoral vote. The Bush family has been involved in the Republican Party and American politics very early. Bush's father is George Herbert Walker Bush, who previously served as the 41st president, and his younger brother Jeb Bush also served as the governor of Florida. During his first term, Bush signed a major tax cut and an education reform bill, the No Child Left Behind Act. He has vigorously promoted socially conservative initiatives such as the Partial Abortion Ban Act, restrictions on same-sex marriage, and religious beliefs. In 2003, he also launched the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to respond to the global AIDS epidemic. The "9·11" terrorist attacks in 2001 completely changed his governing course, leading to the beginning of the war on terrorism and the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. Bush ordered the invasion of Afghanistan in an attempt to overthrow the Taliban, destroy al Qaeda and capture Osama bin Laden. He also signed the Patriot Act, which expanded surveillance powers for terror suspects. He also ordered the 2003 invasion of Iraq to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein, citing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and links to al-Qaeda. In 2004, Bush defeated his Democratic opponent John Kerry in a fierce election and also won the popular vote and was successfully re-elected as president. During his second term, Bush negotiated multiple free trade agreements, appointed John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, and attempted major reforms to Social Security and immigration laws, both of which were ultimately blocked in Congress. His administration has been widely criticized for its handling of Hurricane Katrina and revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. With his approval ratings sluggish, Democrats regained control of Congress in the 2006 election. Meanwhile, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continued. In January 2007, Bush ordered more troops to be sent to Iraq. As his presidency draws to a close, the U.S.

George Edward Foreman (English: George Edward Foreman, January 10, 1949 - March 21, 2025), nicknamed Big George, was born in Marshall, Texas, United States. He was a famous boxer who twice won the world heavyweight boxing championship and Olympic gold medal. At the age of 45, he defeated Mike Moore and won the world heavyweight boxing championship, becoming the oldest heavyweight boxing champion.

George Soros (Esperanto: George Soros, August 12, 1930 -), whose real name is Schwartz György (Hungarian: Schwartz György), was formerly translated as Sauros György, is a Hungarian-born American Jewish businessman, currency speculator, stock investor, progressive political and social activist and philosopher. Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and a former member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. In the 2021 list of the 400 richest people in the United States, he ranked 92nd with assets of US$8.6 billion.

Georges Eugène Sorel (French: Georges Eugène Sorel; November 2, 1847 - August 29, 1922), French philosopher and syndicalist theorist. His political thought is known as Sorelism. He was born into a middle-class family in 1847 and studied civil engineering. In 1892, he left his civil engineering position and concentrated on thinking and researching problems. In 1893, his thoughts turned to Marxism and he began to write analytical and critical articles. In 1897, he defended Dreyfus in the Dreyfus Affair. In 1902, he publicly criticized the then mainstream socialist and radical parties' assumptions of leading to socialism through democracy and constitutionalism, and enthusiastically supported revolutionary syndicalism. In Sorel's view, democratic institutions, with their universal suffrage and political dominance, will ultimately only strengthen the economic enslavement of the working class. After 1909, he gradually became disillusioned with syndicalism. After the October Revolution broke out in Russia in 1917, he announced his support for the Bolsheviks. He believed that the Bolsheviks could regenerate mankind morally. Sorel's philosophy combines the ideas of Bergson and Nietzsche, arguing that reason is subject to sensibility. This became the theoretical basis for the revolutionary socialism he founded. He believed that violent revolution by mobilizing irrational forces was the only way to achieve socialism. Sorel gave the general strike a mystical quality, believing that it had the thrilling power to mobilize workers to engage in "heroic violence" and thereby destroy capitalist society. Unlike some populists, Sorel saw socialism as governed by a small elite. Sorel believed that the general public did not have the ability to control themselves and therefore could only be ruled by the elite. His ideas had a great influence on Mussolini's later fascism.

George Herbert Walker Bush (English: George Herbert Walker Bush, June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018), American politician, 41st President of the United States. He has successively served as Vice President of the United States, Representative of the United States Congress, Director of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is often called Bush Senior to distinguish him from his eldest son, Bush Junior, the 43rd President of the United States. In the 1988 U.S. presidential election, Bush inherited the halo of Ronald Reagan and was overwhelmingly elected president. The most well-known achievement during his presidency was the 1991 Persian Gulf War, in which the United States successfully defeated Iraq and imposed economic sanctions. Soon after, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War ended, and the United States established its international status as the world's policeman and superpower. Due to domestic economic problems, Bush Sr. lost to Bill Clinton in the 1992 US presidential election and failed to seek re-election. Due to his outstanding achievements in diplomacy, he is often evaluated as the best one-term president in American history. On November 30, 2018, Bush passed away peacefully at his home in Houston, Texas, at the age of 94.

Giorgio Armani (Italian: Giorgio Armani, Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒordʒo arˈmaːni]; July 11, 1934 – September 4, 2025) was an Italian fashion designer best known for founding the eponymous brand Armani. In his early years, he rose to prominence through his collaboration with the fashion brand Cerruti 1881. After establishing his own company in 1975, his business gradually expanded to music, sports, luxury hotels and other fields. In 2001, Armani was recognized as Italy's most successful designer and is known for pioneering red carpet fashion. At the time of his death, his fashion empire was valued at more than $12.1 billion. Armani is credited with revolutionizing fashion in the 1970s, with his minimalist and deconstructed silhouettes reflected in his famous soft jackets and unstructured suits. He transformed the elegance of men's and women's clothing into modern, simple and sophisticated styles, and is known as a pioneer in red carpet fashion and celebrity styling.