Top Celebrity Names Starting With Georges

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   Georges St-Pierre

   Age 31 Male
   

   Martial Artist, Welterweight, Sports Person

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   Georges St-Pierre, often referred to as GSP, is a French Canadian mixed martial artist and the current Welterweight Champion of the UFC. St-Pierre is ranked as the No. 1 Welterweight in the world according to Sherdog, and numerous other publications. St-Pierre is ranked the No. 2 pound for pound fighter by ESPN sports,Yahoo! Sports and Sherdog. In 2008, 2009, and 2010 he was named the Canadian Athlete of the Year by Rogers Sportsnet.… read more

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   Georges Laraque

   Age 35 Male
   

   Ice Hockey Player

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   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 a commentator for TVA sport television in Montreal,Quebec, Canada, and deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada. During his NHL career he played for the Edmonton Oilers, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Montreal Canadiens. Georges Laraque was born in the city of Montreal, Quebec.… read more

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   Georges Bonnet

   1889 - 1973 Male
   

   Politician, Socialist, Diplomat

   
   

   Not to be confused with the French Socialist Georges Monnet Georges-Étienne Bonnet File:Georges Bonnet 1937.

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   Georges Brassens

   1921 - 1981 Male
   

   Singer, Songwriter, Voice

   
   

   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. Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics; indeed, he is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets.… read more

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   Georges Bizet

   1838 - 1875 Male
   

   Composer

   
   
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   Georges Méliès

   1861 - 1938 Male
   

   Innovative, Early, French Filmmaker

   
   

   Georges Méliès;, full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour in his work.… read more

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   Georges Cuvier

   1769 - 1832 Male
   

   Naturalist, Zoologist, Major

   
   

   Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist. Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils.… read more

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   Georges Clemenceau

   1841 - 1929 Male
   

   Politician, Statesman, Major

   
   

   Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French journalist and statesman. 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 designing the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference in the aftermath of the war. Nicknamed "Le Tigre" (The Tiger) he took a very harsh line against defeated Germany.… read more

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   Georges Delerue

   1925 - 1992 Male
   

   Composer, Musician

   
   

   Georges Delerue was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards, including an Academy Award for A Little Romance (1980), three César Awards (1979, 1980, 1981), two ASCAP Awards (1988, 1990), and one Gemini Award for Sword of Gideon (1987).… read more

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    Georges Journois

    1896 - 1944 Male
    

    Brigadier, Military Person, General

    
    

    Georges Henri Journois was a French resistance fighter and Brigadier General who died in a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

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    Georges Thenault

    1887 - 1948 Male
    

    Lieutenant Colonel, Volunteer, Pilot

    
    

    Lieutenant Colonel 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 France and England in its war against Germany. Once the United States formally entered the war, the Lafayette Escadrille was absorbed into the U.S. Army.… read more

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    Georges Danton

    1759 - 1794 Male
    

    Politician, Lawyer

    
    

    Georges Jacques Danton was a 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 the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic".… read more

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    Georges Vanier

    1888 - 1967 Male
    

    Diplomat, Politician, Soldier

    
    

    Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier PC DSO MC* CD was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 19th since Canadian Confederation. Vanier was born and educated in Quebec, and, after earning a university degree in law, served in the Canadian army during the First World War; on the European battlefields he lost a limb, but was commended for his actions with a number of decorations from the King.… read more

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    Georges Simenon

    1903 - 1989 Male
    

    Author

    
    

    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.… read more

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    Georges Lentz

    Age 46 Male
    

    Composer, Musician

    
    

    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. Despite his relatively small output, he is now also considered one of Australia's leading composers.… read more

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    Georges Vézina

    1887 - 1926 Male
    

    Ice Hockey Goaltender

    
    

    Joseph-Georges-Gonzague Vézina was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played seven seasons in the National Hockey Association (NHA) and nine in the National Hockey League (NHL), all with the Montreal Canadiens. After being signed by the Canadiens in 1910, Vézina played in 327 consecutive regular season games and a further 39 playoff games, before leaving early during a game in 1925 due to illness.… read more

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    Georges Frêche

    1938 - 2010 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    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 (député) of the National Assembly. Frêche had been a member of the French socialist party until he was expelled on January 27, 2007.… read more

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    Georges Sorel

    1847 - 1922 Male
    

    Political Theorist

    
    

    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.… read more

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    Georges Guingouin

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    Communist, Militant, Authority

    
    

    Georges Guingouin was a French Communist Party (PCF) militant who played a leading role in the French resistance as head of the Maquis du Limousin. He was controversial as a result of extortion committed under his authority during the épuration sauvage in Limousin during 1944.… read more

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    Georges Cziffra

    1921 - 1994 Male
    

    Pianist, Virtuoso, Musician

    
    

    Georges Cziffra was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist. He became a French citizen in 1968. Cziffra is most known for his recordings of Franz Liszt's virtuoso works. He also recorded many of Frédéric Chopin's compositions and those of Robert Schumann (his account of Carnaval de Vienne was admired by Alfred Cortot).… read more

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    Georges Marchais

    1920 - 1997 Male
    

    Politician, Communist, Campaigner

    
    

    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.… read more

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    Georges Lemaître

    1894 - 1966 Male
    

    Astronomer, Honorary Prelate, Priest, Physics Professor

    
    

    Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble.… read more

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    Georges Franju

    1912 - 1987 Male
    

    Filmmaker

    
    

    Georges Franju was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine.