George Gordon may refer to:

By career

Military

George Henry Gordon George Henry Gordon (July 19, 1823 – August 30, 1886) was an American lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War. Early life Gordon was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, at the age of fiv ...

(1823–1886), U.S. Army general * George Gordon (Civil War general) (1836–1911), Civil War General, Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. Representative from Tennessee * George Grant Gordon (1836–1912), British Army officer and courtier

Political figures

* George Gordon of Tulloch, commissioner for

Aberdeen (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Aberdeen was a burgh constituency that elected one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates. After the Acts of Union 1707, Aberdeen, Arbroath, Brechin, Inverbervie and Montrose formed the Aberdeen district ...

*Sir George Gordon (died 1690), commissioner for Banffshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency) * George Gordon (died 1691), burgh commissioner for

Dornoch (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Dornoch in Sutherland was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates. After the Acts of Union 1707, Dornoch, Dingwall, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick formed the Tain district of burghs, re ...

* Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), British politician * George Newcombe Gordon (1879–1949), Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister * George Gordon (Ontario politician) (1888–1971), Member of Provincial Parliament *

George Gordon (Canadian politician) George Gordon (May 2, 1865 – February 3, 1942) was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the House of Commons of Canada from 1908 to 1911. He was then appointed to the Senate, where he served until his death in ...

(1865–1942), senator from Ontario *

George William Gordon George William Gordon (1820 – 23 October 1865) was a wealthy mixed-race Jamaican businessman, magistrate and politician, one of two representatives to the Assembly from St. Thomas-in-the-East parish. He was a leading critic of the colonial ...

(1820–1865), Jamaican politician * George A. Gordon (1885–1959), American attorney and diplomat * George Anderson Gordon (1830–1872), American politician from Georgia * George John Robert Gordon (1812-1912), British diplomat

Religious figures

* George N. Gordon (1822–1861), Protestant missionary to the South Pacific * George Gordon (priest) (1760–1845), Dean of Exeter and of Lincoln

Sciences

George Gordon (botanist) George Gordon (1806–1879) was a British botanist. He worked for the London Horticultural Society as Foreman of the Horticultural Society Gardens at Chiswick, near London. Gordon is particularly noted for his work on conifers, publishin ...

(1806–1879), gardener and horticultural writer *

George Gordon (horticulturalist) George Gordon may refer to: By career Military *George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), U.S. Army general * George Gordon (Civil War general) (1836–1911), Civil War General, Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. Representative from Tennessee *George Grant Go ...

(1841–1914), British horticulturalist and writer, awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour * George Gordon (engineer) (1829–1907), Scottish Australian civil engineer *

George Phineas Gordon George Phineas Gordon (April 21, 1810 – January 27, 1878) was an American inventor, printer and businessman who developed the basic design of the most common printing press ever, the Gordon Letterpress. Biography Born in Salem, New Hampshire ...

(1821–1878), American inventor, printer and businessman

Sports

* George Croughly Gordon (1850–1899), Scottish amateur international footballer * George Gordon (Australian footballer) (1902–1990), Australian rules footballer with Fitzroy * George Gordon (New South Wales cricketer) (1846–1923), Australian cricketer * George Gordon (Victoria cricketer) (1860–1946), Australian cricketer

Writers and academics

* George Byron Gordon (1870–1927), American archaeologist *

George Stuart Gordon George Stuart Gordon (1881–12 March 1942) was a British literary scholar. Gordon was educated at the University of Glasgow and Oriel College, Oxford, where he received a First Class in Classical Moderations in 1904, '' Literae Humaniores'' in 1 ...

(1881–1942), British academic and professor of poetry * George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), British Romantic poet more commonly known as Lord Byron

Others

George Gordon (animator) George Gordon (September 2, 1906 – May 24, 1986) was an American film and TV animator and director of animated productions. Starting in film in 1930, he moved to TV in its early days. Gordon is credited with hundreds of cartoons from 1937 th ...

(1906–1986), American animator and director of cartoons for TV *

George Gordon (scenic artist) George Cameron Gordon (11 June 1839 – 12 June 1899) was a Scottish-born scenic designer and artist in Australia. His father was in the same line of business and his son John "Jack" Gordon ( – 24 November 1911) following the family traditi ...

(c. 1839–1899), in England and Australia * George Gordon (merchant), colonial American landholder *

George Stanley Gordon George Stanley Gordon (November 19, 1926 – April 22, 2013) was an American advertising executive who founded the famed Gordon and Shortt Advertising Agency. Gordon approached famed artist Alexander Calder and brought him to Braniff International ...

(1926–2013), American advertising executive

By family

Members of the Scottish Clan Gordon

* George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly (before 1455–1501), Chancellor of Scotland, 1498–1501 *

George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (151428 October 1562) was a Scottish nobleman. Life He was the son of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and Margaret Stewart, daughter of James IV and Margaret Drummond. George Gordon inherited his earldom and esta ...

(1514–1562), Scottish nobleman * George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly (died 1576), Lord Chancellor of Scotland * George Gordon (bishop) (died 1588), bishop of Galloway *

George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (156213 June 1636) was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in the political and military life of Scotland in the late 16th century, and around the time of the Union of the Crowns. Biography The son o ...

(1562–1636), Scottish nobleman * George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly (1592–1649) *

George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland (2 November 1633 – 4 March 1703) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the eldest surviving son of John Gordon, 14th Earl of Sutherland, and his first wife Lady Jean Drummond, daughter of James Drummond, th ...

(1633–1703), Scottish nobleman *

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (3 October 163720 April 1720), was a Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Early life Gordon, born on 3 October 1637, the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, (executed in 1644); and h ...

(1637–1720), Lord Chancellor of Scotland * George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon (1643–1716), Scottish peer *

George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen (19 June 1722 – 13 August 1801), styled Lord Haddo until 1745, was a Scottish peer. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761, and from 1774 to 1790. He was against Willi ...

(1722–1801), Scottish peer *

George Gordon of Gight George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...

(1741–1779), maternal grandfather of poet George Gordon Byron * Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), politician, leader of Gordon riots * George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly (1761–1853), Scottish peer * George Gordon, Lord Haddo (1764–1791) *

George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon General George Duncan Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, (2 February 1770 – 28 May 1836), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1827, was a British nobleman, soldier and politician and the last of his line. Early life George was born at Edinburgh on 2 F ...

(1770–1836), Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician *

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, (28 January 178414 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in ...

(1784–1860), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen (1816–1864), British peer and Liberal Party politician *

George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen (10 December 1841 – 27 January 1870), styled Lord Haddo from 1860 to 1864, was a Scottish peer and sailor. Hamilton-Gordon settled for a time in Richmond, Maine, where he took jobs cutting ice and c ...

(1841–1870), Scottish peer and sailor *

George Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore George Arthur Maurice Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore (3 January 1871 – 13 April 1957), was a British Liberal politician. Biography Stanmore was the only son of Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, youngest son of Prime Minister G ...

(1871–1957), British Liberal politician *

George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (20 January 1879 – 6 January 1965), styled Lord Haddo until 1916 and Earl of Haddo from 1916 to 1934, was a Scottish peer and politician. Aberdeen was born in 1879 at Grosvenor Square, London ...

(1879–1965), 8th Earl of Aberdeen * George Ian Alastair Gordon, 8th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (born 1983)