Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck (English dramatist & poet)
Gilbert, Walter (American microbiologist)
Gilbert, William (Physician / Physicist)
Gillespie, John Birks (Trumpeter/Composer)
Gillette, King Camp (American inventor and manufacturer)
Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins (American politician & sociologist)
Gingrich, Newton Leroy (Political Figure)
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (American stateswoman & jurist)
Giorgione (Italian painter)
Giotto (Italian painter & architect)
Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean (French novelist & dramatist)
Giscard d'Estaing, Valéry (French president)
Gissing, George Robert (English novelist)
Giulini, Carlo Maria (Italian musician)
Givenchy, Hubert de (French fashion designer)
Gjellerup, Karl (Danish poet & novelist)
Glackens, William James (American painter & artist)
Gladstone, William Ewart (English statesman)
Glass, Philip (American composer)
Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich (Russian composer & musician)
Gleason, Herbert John (Actor / Comedian)
Glendower, Owen (Welsh politician)
Glenn, John Herschel, Jr. (Astronaut / U.S. Senator)
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (Russian composer)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (German-Italian composer)
Godard, Jean Luc (Filmmaker)
Goddard, Robert Hutchings (American physicist & aviator)
Gödel, Kurt (Mathematician)
Godfrey of Bouillon (French royalty & military leader)
Godwin, William (English writer, politician & philosopher)
Goebbels, (Paul) Joseph (German politician)
Goethals, George Washington (American military leader)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (German poet, dramatist, novelist & scientist)
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich (Russian writer, novelist & dramatist)
Goldberg, Arthur Joseph (American labor leader, jurist & statesman)
Golding, William Gerald (English novelist)
Goldman, Emma (American politician)
Goldoni, Carlo (Italian dramatist)
Goldsmith, Oliver (English-Irish writer)
Goldwyn, Samuel (American filmmaker)
Golgi, Camillo (Italian physician)
Goliath (Biblical Figure)