Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
George Washington
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797.
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Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797.
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Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French writer, essayist, librarian and theorist whose work crossed the boundaries of literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political economy, religious studies and art history.
Read biography ↗French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
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Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920.
Read biography ↗French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
Read biography ↗French painter (1859-1891)
Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist.
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Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist.
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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian Marxist theorist, philosopher, and revolutionary.
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