Browsing People by name starting with G (111 records)
  • 1900 – 2002, German
  • fl. c. 130 – c. 180, Roman
  • 1908 – 2006, Canadian

    Economist. He served as president of the American Economic Association, wrote best-selling books, and was appointed by President Kennedy to be ambassador to India. But events largely overtook his principal economic thesis, laid out in the 1950's and 1960's, that American businesses had developed into vast monopolies that were invulnerable to competition.

  • 1564 – 1642, Italian

    Astronomer. He used a new telescope of his own design to confirm and expand on Copernicus's theory that the earth was a satellite of the sun, not the center of the solar system or universe. This led to conflict with the Roman Catholic Church, a forced recantation, and continuing imprisonment.

  • 1787 – 1851, American

    Researcher and teacher. He helped the deaf and especially deaf-mutes.

  • 1867 – 1933, English
  • ? – 50, Palestinian
  • 1869 – 1948, Indian

    Spiritual and political leader. He grounded the Indian independence movement on the principle of Satyagraha, which incorporated the search for the truth (satya), humility, pacifist or non-violent methods of struggle and resistance, and personal self-sacrifice for ideals greater than ourselves.

    Gandhi was very complicated, and his life involves paradoxes, such as the virtual abandonment of his wife and children.

  • fl. 1200, Indian

    Philosopher. He was an important thinker and logician, and contributed to the Nyaya and Vaisesika schools of Hindu thought.

  • 1905 – 1990, Swedish

    Film actress. She epitomized beauty, mystery, and reclusiveness.

  • 1831 – 1881, American
  • 1917 – 2011, American
  • 1807 – 1882, Italian

    Revolutionary, military leader. With Cavour, he founded an independent Italy.

  • 1922 – 1969, American

    Actress, singer. She seemed to embody vulnerability.

  • 1868 – 1967, American

    He broke with President Franklin Roosevelt whom he considered too radical. He also memorably said that the vice-presidency was not worth a bucket of warm piss.

  • 1850 – 1908, American

    A keeper of law and order.

  • 1717 – 1779, English

    Actor, theatre manager, and playwright. Famous as an actor, then theater owner, he came to epitomize the English stage.

  • 1805 – 1879, American
  • 1592 – 1655, French

    Philosopher. He defended the empirical position, requiring close observation and experiment, against the "rationalists" (logicians) and thus helped to develop modern science.

  • Born 1955, American

    Computer software entrepreneur, the richest person in the world. He started his computer software company on a shoestring and came to exemplify entrepreneurship.