Namesakes for GEORGE:
Shakespearian Characters:
3 characters
George Henry VI (3)
George Richard III
Master George Page The Merry Wives of Windsor
Kings and Tsars of Bulgaria:
2 tsars
Tsar Georgi Terter I (a.k.a. George) 1280-1292
Tsar Georgi Terter II (a.k.a. George) 1322-1323
Kings and Queens of England:
6 kings
King George I 1714-1727
King George II 1727-1760
King George III 1760-1820
King George IV 1820-1830
King George V 1910-1936
King George VI 1936-1952
Nobel Prize Winners:
7 medicine, 3 chemistry, 2 economics, 1 literature, 1 peace, 1 physics
(chemistry) George A. Olah 1994
(chemistry) George Porter 1967
(chemistry) George de Hevesy 1943
(economics) George A. Akerlof 2001
(economics) George J. Stigler 1982
(literature) George Bernard Shaw 1925
(medicine) George H. Hitchings 1988
(medicine) George D. Snell 1980
(medicine) George E. Palade 1974
(medicine) George Wald 1967
(medicine) George Wells Beadle 1958
(medicine) George Hoyt Whipple 1934
(medicine) George Richards Minot 1934
(peace) George Catlett Marshall 1953
(physics) George Paget Thomson 1937
Oscar Award Winners:
7 actors, 3 directors
(actor) George Clooney 2005
(actor) George Arliss 1930
(actor) George Burns 1975
(actor) George C. Scott 1970
(actor) George Chakiris 1961
(actor) George Kennedy 1967
(actor) George Sanders 1950
(director) George Cukor 1964
(director) George Roy Hill 1973
(director) George Stevens 1951, 1956
Grand Dukes and Tsars of Russia:
3 dukes
Duke Yuriy I Dolgoruki (a.k.a. George) 1154-1157
Duke Yuriy II (a.k.a. Yuri, George) 1212-1216/1218-1238
Duke Yuriy (a.k.a. Yuri, George) 1303-1325
Saints:
8 blessed, 3 saints
Saint George ?-303
Saint George ?-825
Saint George ?-852
Blessed George Haydock 1556-1584
Blessed George Douglas ?-1587
Blessed George Nichols ?-1589
Blessed George Beesley 1563-1591
Blessed George Errington ?-1596
Blessed George Gervase 1569-1608
Blessed Georges Edme Rene (a.k.a. George) 1748-1794
Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (a.k.a. George) 1871-1927
Kings, Tsars and Princes of Serbia:
1 despot, 1 ruler
Despot Đurađ Branković (a.k.a. George) 1427-1456
Ruler Đorđe Petrović (a.k.a. George) 1804-1813
Sports Stars:
8 baseball, 8 football, 6 hockey, 3 basketball
(baseball) George "Sparky" Anderson 2000
(baseball) George Brett 1999
(baseball) George S. Davis 1998
(baseball) George Kell 1983
(baseball) George Kelly 1973
(baseball) George Herman "Babe" Ruth 1936
(baseball) George Sisler 1939
(baseball) George Wright 1937
(basketball) George Gervin 1996
(basketball) George L. Mikan 1959
(basketball) George Yardley 1996
(football) George Allen 2002
(football) George Blanda 1981
(football) George Connor 1975
(football) George Halas 1963
(football) George Preston Marshall 1963
(football) George McAfee 1966
(football) George Musso 1982
(football) George Trafton 1964
(hockey) George Armstrong 1975
(hockey) George Boucher 1960
(hockey) George Hainsworth 1961
(hockey) George Hay 1958
(hockey) George McNamara 1958
(hockey) George Richardson 1950
Presidents of the United States:
3 presidents
President George Washington 1789-1797
President George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993
President George Walker Bush 2001-2009
Notable Artists:
1 artist
(artist) Georges Seurat (a.k.a. George) 1859-1891
Notable Explorers and Adventurers:
3 explorers
(explorer) George Vancouver 1757-1798
(explorer) George Bass 1771-1803
(explorer) George Mallory 1886-1924
Notable Writers:
3 authors, 1 poet
(poet) Lord George Gordon Byron 1788-1824
(author) George Sand (Amandine Dupin) 1804-1876
(author) George Eliot (Mary Evans) 1819-1880
(author) George Orwell (Eric Blair) 1903-1950
Notable Musicians:
3 composers
(composer) Georg Friedrich Handel (a.k.a. George) 1685-1759
(composer) Georges Bizet (a.k.a. George) 1838-1875
(composer) George Gershwin 1898-1937
Notable Scientists and Inventors:
1 physicist
(physicist) Georg Ohm (a.k.a. George) 1789-1854
Notable Philosophers and Thinkers:
4 philosophers
(philosopher) George Berkeley 1685-1753
(philosopher) Georg Hegel (a.k.a. George) 1770-1831
(philosopher) George Santayana 1863-1952
(philosopher) George Edward Moore 1873-1958
