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George Gershwin
Name at birth: Jacob Bruskin GershvinGeorge Gershwin's popular songs and compositions from the 1920s and 1930s include "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and the…George Fox
George Fox was a 17th-century Christian leader who rejected the formal trappings of religion, encouraged believers to follow their "inner light" and became the leader of the Society of Friends, known…George Eliot
Name at birth: Mary Ann (or Marian) EvansGeorge Eliot was the masculine pen name of the writer Mary Ann Evans, one of Victorian England's leading novelists. Her first stories appeared in Blackwood's…George Jones
George Jones was the American country music star best known to general audiences by way of the 1980 hit "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Country music fans know him as the longtime Nashville star…George III
Britain's King George III was the 18th century monarch who lost the fight to keep control over the American colonies. The third monarch of the Hanover house and the first to be born in England, he…George II
King George II was a Hanoverian prince who rose to the throne of Britain in 1727. His 33-year reign included wars with Spain and France and the expansion of the British empire into Canada and India…George Hearst
Near the end of the 19th century, George Hearst was one of the richest men in the United States and a U.S. Senator from California who had made his fortune in mining. He grew up in Franklin County,…George Harrison
George Harrison joined John Lennon and Paul McCartney in 1957, playing guitar for The Quarrymen. By 1962 the group had added Ringo Starr and become The Beatles, the most successful pop act in music…George McClellan
Name at birth: George Brinton McClellanGeorge B. McClellan was the leader of the Union army during the Civil War until President Abraham Lincoln relieved him of command in 1862 for his hesitancy on…George Mallory
Also known as: George Herbert Leigh-MalloryAn expert mountaineer, George Mallory led three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s. On the third, in 1924, Mallory and climbing partner…Trending
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