George

George or Georges may refer to:

In royalty:

• George, Duke of Saxony, duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539
• George I of Great Britain, the first Hanoverian monarch of Great Britain and Ireland
• George II of Great Britain, the last British monarch to personally lead his troops into battle
• George I of Greece, the first monarch of the new Greek dynasty
• George II of Greece, the son of Constantine I and Princess Sophia of Prussia
• George III of the United Kingdom, the third British monarch of the House of Hanover
• George IV of the United Kingdom, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover
• George V of the United Kingdom, the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor
• George VI of the United Kingdom, the last King of Ireland
• George V of Hanover, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Hanover
• George of Podebrady, the first King in Europe to renounce the Catholic faith
• George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, the younger brother of King Edward IV of England
• Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V

In religion:

• George Bush (biblical scholar) (1796–1859), biblical scholar
• George Carpenter (1872-1948), the 5th General of The Salvation Army
• George Young (minister), Canadian Methodist minister and author
• Saint George, Middle Eastern Martyr

In sports:

• Eddie George, American football player
• George Best (1946-2005), Irish soccer player
• George Fisher (baseball), baseball player who played in the 1930 World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals
• George Foreman (b. 1949), American boxer
• George Steinbrenner (b. 1930), principal owner of the New York Yankees
• George Yardley (1928-2004), basketball player
• George Young (footballer), Scottish former footballer
• George Young (NFL), American football executive

In television and film:

• George (tortoise), a long-serving pet on British television series Blue Peter
• George Clooney (b. 1961), actor
• George Cukor (1899-1983), film director
• George Fisher, African American actor
• George Lucas (b. 1944), film director
• George of the Jungle, Saturday-morning animated television program
• George Sawaya, stuntman and actor
• George Takei (b. 1937), a Japanese-American actor
• George Victor Bishop (1932-2005), American film, television, stage and radio actor based in Britain
• Gladys George, American actress
• Melissa George, Australian actress
• Michael George Westmore (b. 1938), renowned American makeup artist

In politics:

• David Lloyd George, British politician
• George Fisher (settler), customs officer and early leader of the Texas Revolution
• George Galloway, British anti-war MP, representing the constituancy of Bethnal Green and Bow
• George Herbert Walker Bush (b. 1924), 41st President of the United States
• George Kennedy Young, deputy director of MI6
• George P. Fisher, American lawyer and politician from Wilmington
• George Pataki (b. 1945), American politician and governor of New York state
• George W. Bush (b. 1946), the 43rd and current President of the United States
• George Washington (1732-1799), American revolutionary
• George Young (MP), Scottish Liberal MP in the British Parliament
• Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, English politician

In science:

• George Schaller (b. 1933), mammologist, naturalist, conservationist and author
• George Washington Carver (1864-1943), botanist and inventor for many uses for the peanut

In fiction:

• Curious George, the protagonist and main character from a series of popular children's books
• George, a puppet on the long-running British children's television series, Rainbow
• George Costanza (1989–1998), fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld
• George the Steamroller a minor character from The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry

In literature:

• George Eliot (1819-1880), English novelist
• George MacDonald (1824-1905), author and poet
• George Orwell (1903-1950), writer

In comedy:

• George Carlin (b. 1937), comedian
• George Fisher (cartoonist), acclaimed American political cartoonist

In music:

• Boy George, British singer
• George (band), band from Brisbane, Australia
• George Fisher (musician), the vocalist for the death metal band Cannibal Corpse
• George Gershwin (1898-1937), composer
• George Harrison (1943-2001), English pop artist best known as a member of The Beatles
• George Michael (b. 1963), English pop artist
• George Strait (b. 1952), American country music singer
• George Young (musician), Australian rock musician, songwriter and record producer

In economy:

• Edward George, British economist
• Henry George, American economist

In business:

• George D. Sax (1904-1974), business entrepreneur
• Phyllis George, American businesswoman

In military:

• George, World War II-era Japanese fighter aircraft
• George of Antioch, the first true ammiratus ammiratorum
• George S. Patton (1885-1945), General

In geography:

• George, South Africa, town in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
• George, Iowa, city in Lyon County, Iowa
• George, Washington, city in Grant County, Washington, United States
• George County, Mississippi, county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi
• George West, Texas, city in Live Oak County, Texas, United States
• Lake George (New York), long narrow lake at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains
• Lake George (town), New York, town in Warren County, New York, USA
• Lake George (village), New York, village located in Warren County, New York, USA

In computing:

• GEORGE, International Computers Ltd operating system developed for their 1900 range of computers
• GEORGE (computer), early computer built in 1957 by Argonne National Laboratory

In other fields:

• George, famous clothing brand in the United Kingdom owned by supermarket chain Asda
• George (magazine), a magazine founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr.
• George (vacuum cleaner), a green vacuum cleaner manufactured by Numatic International Ltd
• George Jung, major player in cocaine importation in the United States in the 1970s and early 80s
• George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher
• George Ouzounian (b. 1978), founder of popular website "The Best Page In The Universe"
• George Prescott Bush (b. 1976), son of Jeb Bush
• George Washington Bush (1779–1863), the first Black settler in what is now Washington State
• Hurricane Georges, the second major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season
• Lonesome George, the last known remnant of the subspecies Geochelone nigra abingdonii
• Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George", association formed by car porters

In other languages:

• Arabic: Jirjis (جرجس), or Jeryes
• Aragonese: Chorche
• Albanian: Gjergj
• Armenian: Գեվորգ (Gevorg)
• Basque: Gorka
• Bulgarian: Георги (Georgi)
• Catalan: Jordi
• Chinese: (Qiáozhì)
  • Traditional: 喬治
  • Simplified: 乔治
• Croatian: Male:Jura,Jure,Juro,Juraj,Jurica, Đura, Đuro Female:Đurđa, Đurđica
• Czech: Jiří
• Danish: Jørgen [ˈjɶ:ɐn], Jørn [ˈjɶ:ɐ̯ˀn], Georg [ˈg̊e:ɔʊ̯, ˈg̊e:ʊ]
• Dutch: Joris, Sjors
• English: George [ˈdʒɔ:dʒ] (male), Georgia [ˈdʒɔ:dʒə] (female)
• Estonian: Jüri
• Finnish: Yrjö, Jyrki, Jyri, Yrjänä, Jori
• French: Georges [ˈʒɔʁʒ]
• Georgian: გიორგი (Giorgi)
• German: Georg [ˈge:ɔʁk], Jörg [ˈjœʁk], Jürgen [ˈjʏʁgn̩], Jörgen [ˈjœʁgn̩]
• Greek: Γεώργιος (Georgios) [ˈjɔrjɔs] (formal), Γιώργος (Giorgos) [ˈjɔrγɔs] (informal)
• Hungarian: György
• Irish: Seoirse
• Italian: Giorgio [ˈdʒɔrdʒo]
• Japanese: Jo-ji (ジョージ)
• Korean: 조지 (Joji)
• Latin: Georgius
• Lithuanian: Jurgis
• Macedonian: Ѓорѓија (Gjorgjija), Ѓоргија (Gjorgija), Ѓорги (Gjorgi), Георгија (Georgija)
• Malay: Jurjis
• Malayalam: Varghese, Verghese, Varkey, Jiju, Jiji, Jijo, Jeejo, Joju, Joji
• Norwegian: Jørgen, Georg
• Polish: Jerzy [ˈjɛʒï]
• Portuguese: Jorge
• Romanian: Gheorghe, George (male), Gherghina, Georgeta (female)
• Russian: Георгий (Georgij), Юрий (Yury), Егор (Yegor)
• Scottish: Deòrsa, Seòras, Deòrsag (female).
• Serbian: Ђорђе (Djordje), Ђypaђ (Djuradj)
• Slovak: Juraj
• Slovene: Jurij
• Spanish: Jorge [ˈχɔrχɛ] (male), Jorgelina, Georgina (female)
• Swedish: Örjan [ˈœrjan], Göran [ˈjœ:ran], Jörgen [ˈjœrgɘn], Jörn [ˈjœ:ɳ], Georg [ˈje:ɔr]
• Syriac: Gewargis
• Welsh: Siôr, Siors, Siorus

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