Top Celebrity Names Starting With Gene

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   Gene Simmons

   Age 62 Male
   

   Musician, Songwriter, Singer

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   Gene Simmons is American rock bassist, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and actor. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/co-vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s. Kiss has sold over 100 million albums worldwide.… read more

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   Gene Wilder

   Age 77 Male
   

   Comedic Actor

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   Gene Wilder is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author. Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers.… read more

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   Gene Kelly

   1912 - 1996 Male
   

   Dancer, Actor, Singer, Director, Producer, and Choreographer

   
   

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   Gene Tierney

   1920 - 1991 Female
   

   Actress

   
   

   Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs.… read more

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   Gene Hackman

   Age 82 Male
   

   Actor

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   Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is a retired American actor and novelist. Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde.… read more

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   Gene Colan

   1926 - 2011 Male
   

   Comics Creator and Artist

   
   

   Eugene Jules "Gene" Colan was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series, Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror series.… read more

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   Gene Roddenberry

   1921 - 1991 Male
   

   Television Producer and Television Writer

   
   

   Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war.… read more

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   Gene Clark

   1944 - 1991 Male
   

   Musician, Songwriter, Composer

   
   
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   Gene Pierson

   Age 63 Male
   

   Australian Record Producer

   
   

   Australian entrepreneur Gene Pierson, after a successful solo recording career in the 60s and 70s, was instrumental in launching the careers of numerous Australian artists including AC/DC, INXS, Air Supply and Sebastian Hardie. Pierson,(born Giancarlo Salvestrin, 29 April 1949) is a record producer, music publisher and record label owner. In 2012 he acquired the Peter Lik Publishing Group from renowned Australian photographer Peter Lik.… read more

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    Gene Vincent

    1935 - 1971 Male
    

    Musician, Singer

    
    

    Vincent Eugene Craddock, known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-A-Lula", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly. He is a member of the Rock and Roll and Rockabilly Halls of Fame.… read more

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    Gene Amondson

    1943 - 2009 Male
    

    Painter, Politician, Minister

    
    

    Gene Amondson, was a landscape painter, woodcarver, Christian minister and prohibition activist who was the 2004 US presidential candidate for one faction of the Prohibition Party (Concerns of People Party) and the nominee of the unified party in 2008. Amondson was known for his anti-Alcohol activism and reenactments of sermons by preacher Billy Sunday.… read more

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    Gene Leis

    1920 - 1993 Male
    

    Guitarist, Bandleader, Composer

    
    

    Gene Leis was an American jazz guitarist, teacher, bandleader, composer, producer and entrepreneur. Known primarily for his influential publications and recorded guitar courses in the 1960s, Gene was also a popular performer and a mentor to a large number of musicians through his teaching studios in Manhattan Beach, California.… read more

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    Gene Pitney

    1941 - 2006 Male
    

    Singer and Songwriter

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    Gene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney, was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the British Invasion. Pitney charted 16 Top-40 hits in the U.S. , four in the Top 10. In the UK he had 22 Top-40 hits, and 11 singles in the Top Ten.… read more

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    Gene Taylor

    Age 58 Male
    

    Politician

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    Gary Eugene "Gene" Taylor is the former U.S. Representative for, serving from 1989 until 2011. He was defeated for re-election in 2010 by State Rep. Steven Palazzo, who gained 52% of the vote compared to Taylor's 47%. He left office in January 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.… read more

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    Gene Nichol

    Age 61 Male
    

    Bishop, Politician, Priest

    
    

    Gene Ray Nichol, Jr. was the twenty-sixth president of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. He succeeded Timothy J. Sullivan and officially served from July 1, 2005 to February 12, 2008. It was the shortest tenure for a William & Mary president since the Civil War. Nichol spent his prep years at Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, Texas (Class of 1969).… read more

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    Gene Scott

    1929 - 2005 Male
    

    Teacher, Minister, Religious

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    William Eugene "Gene" Scott was an American pastor and teacher who served for almost 50 years as an ordained minister and religious broadcaster in Los Angeles, California.

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    Gene Robinson

    Age 65 Male
    

    Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

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    Vicki Gene Robinson is the ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Robinson was elected bishop in 2003 and entered office in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as assistant to the retiring New Hampshire bishop, as Canon to the Ordinary.… read more

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    Gene Rayburn

    1917 - 1999 Male
    

    Tv Game Show Host

    
    

    Gene Rayburn was an American radio and television personality. He is best known as the host of various editions of the popular American television game show Match Game for over two decades. Born Eugene Rubessa in Christopher, Illinois, he was an only child of Croatian immigrants and graduated from Lindblom Technical High School and later from Knox College.… read more

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    Gene Okerlund

    Age 69 Male
    

    Interviewer, Announcer, Wrestler

    
    

    Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund is a semi-retired American professional wrestling interviewer and announcer. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006 by Hulk Hogan.… read more

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    Gene Watson

    Age 68 Male
    

    Singer

    
    

    Gary Gene Watson is an American country singer. He is most famous for his 1975 hit "Love in the Hot Afternoon," his 1982 hit "Fourteen Carat Mind," and his signature song "Farewell Party. " Watson's long career has notched six number ones, 23 top tens and over 75 charted singles.… read more

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    Gene Hoglan

    Age 44 Male
    

    Musician, Drummer

    
    

    Eugene "Gene" Victor Hoglan II is an American drummer. He is acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including usage of odd devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms (using what he calls "kick triplets"). His highly technical playing is extremely accurate at very high and challenging tempos, earning him the nicknames "The Atomic Clock" and "Human Drum Machine".… read more

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    Gene Stoltzfus

    1940 - 2010 Male
    

    Peace Activist

    
    

    Mervin Eugene "Gene" Stoltzfus was an American peace activist, international development worker, founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), and pioneer in the international peace team movement.… read more

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    Gene Markey

    1895 - 1980 Male
    

    Producer, Scriptwriter, Naval Officer

    
    

    Eugene Willford "Gene" Markey was an American author, producer, screenwriter, and highly decorated naval officer.

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    Gene Sherman

    1915 - 1969 Male
    

    Journalist and Pulitzer Prize Winner

    
    

    Gene Sherman was a journalist who won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the Los Angeles Times. Sherman started his 30 years on staff as a cub reporter covering nearly all the regular news beats from police and sheriff to municipal and Superior Courts. He then worked as a rewrite man, a frontline general assignment reporter, leading feature story writer, war correspondent, in-depth investigative reporter and a foreign correspondent.… read more

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    Gene Hunt

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    DCI Gene Hunt is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama Life on Mars and its sequel, Ashes to Ashes. The character is portrayed by Philip Glenister in both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, whereas in the American version he is portrayed by Harvey Keitel. The character is portrayed as politically incorrect, brutal and corrupt.… read more