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Military

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George Taylor (Alamo defender) The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a crucial conflict of the Texas Revolution. In 1835, colonists from the United States joined with Tejanos (Mexicans born in Texas) in putting up armed resistance to the centralization ...
(c. 1816–1836), soldier in Texas army, died in the Battle of the Alamo * George Taylor (British Army officer) (1905–1994), served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Mau Mau campaign * George Taylor (Medal of Honor) (1830–1893), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * George A. Taylor (1899–1969), American army officer at D-Day invasion, Battle of Normandy * George P. Taylor (born 1953), American Air Force Surgeon General * George W. Taylor (general) (1808–1862), American Civil War general, Army of the Potomac


Politics

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George Taylor (Canadian politician) George Taylor (March 31, 1840 – March 26, 1919) was a Canadian politician. Born in Lansdowne, Leeds County, Ontario, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Leeds South in the 1882 federal ...
(1840–1919), Canadian House of Commons member *
George Taylor (Pennsylvania politician) George Taylor (c. 1716 – February 23, 1781) was an American ironmaster and politician who was a Founding Father of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania. His former ...
(c. 1716–1781), signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence *
George Taylor (New York Representative) George Taylor (October 19, 1820 – January 18, 1894) was an American attorney and Democratic politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from New York for one term from 1857 to 1859. Biography Born in Wheeling, Virginia (now We ...
(1820–1894), American congressman from New York * George Taylor (Connecticut politician) (1802–1881), politician and physician * George E. Taylor (Michigan politician) (1838–1903), Michigan politician and judge * George Edwin Taylor (1857–1925), National Negro Liberty Party candidate for president of the United States, 1904 * George H. Taylor (New York assemblyman), member of the
85th New York State Legislature The 85th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to April 23, 1862, during the fourth year of Edwin D. Morgan's governorship, in Albany. Background Under the pr ...
* George H. Taylor (New York state senator), member of the
144th New York State Legislature The 144th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 5 to April 16, 1921, during the first year of Nathan L. Miller's governorship, in Albany. Background Under the pr ...
* George L. Taylor (1842–?), physician and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada * George Sylvester Taylor (1822–1910), American Massachusetts state senator * George W. Taylor (Alabama politician) (1849–1932), American congressman from Alabama * George W. Taylor (Wisconsin politician) (1855–1931), American politician in Wisconsin *
George William Taylor George William Taylor, (born November 5, 1937) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of William Davis. Taylor was a member ...
(born 1937), Canadian Solicitor General *
George Taylor (Australian politician) George "Mulga" Taylor (16 May 1861 – 24 September 1935) was an Australian labour leader and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1901 to 1930. He was a minister in the government of Henry Daglish, ...
(1861–1935), Australian labour leader and member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia * George Cuthbert Taylor (1886–1957), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly


Sports

* George Taylor (boxer), mid-eighteenth century English boxer *
George Taylor (manager) George J. Taylor (November 22, 1853 – October 28, 1911 in New York City) was the city editor of James Gordon Bennett's ''New York Herald''. He noticed that his readers had a craving for baseball news. Together with Charles Byrne and Josep ...
(1853–1911), American baseball manager *
George Taylor (first baseman) George H. Taylor (born September 1869) was an American baseball first baseman and manager in the pre-Negro leagues. While with the Page Fence Giants, Taylor played with many of the popular players of the day, including Charlie Grant, John W. Pat ...
(1869–?), Negro leagues first baseman *
George Taylor (Australian rules footballer) George Taylor (16 September 1876 – 20 May 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia ...
(1876–1953), Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne *
George Taylor (rugby league) George G. Taylor was a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s, 1910s and 1920s. He played at club level for Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage № 170), as a forward (prior to the specialist positions of; ), during the era of con ...
, rugby league footballer of the 1900s, 1910s and 1920s *
George Taylor (footballer, born 1900) George Hector Taylor (3 June 1900 – September 1982) was an English professional football outside right who played in the Football League for Brentford and Millwall. Career An outside forward, Taylor joined hometown Third Division club Br ...
(1900–1982), played in the Football League for Brentford and Millwall *
George Taylor (footballer, born 1901) George Taylor (born 23 January 1901) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Newport County and Oldham Athletic Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional football club in Oldham, Greater Mancheste ...
, English footballer *
George Taylor (footballer, born 1907) George Thomas Taylor (23 April 1907–1951) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers, Coventry City and Notts County Notts County Football Club is a professional association football club based in N ...
(1907–?), English football outside right, who played for
Coventry City F.C. Coventry City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The team currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. The club is nicknamed th ...
in the 1930s *
George Taylor (cricketer) George Rammell Taylor (born 25 November 1909 — 21 October 1986) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire. Taylor was born at Havant in November 1909. He was educated at Lancing College, where he played for the college cr ...
(1909–1986), English cricket player *
George Taylor (footballer, born 1909) George Taylor was an English professional football left half who made 220 appearances in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers. He was a reserve for England's 7–0 British Home Championship win over Ireland on 16 November 1938. After his ret ...
(1909–?), English football left half * George Taylor (footballer, born 1915) (1915–1982), Scottish footballer, played for Aberdeen and Plymouth Argyle * George Taylor (footballer, born 1920) (1920–1983), English football goalkeeper, played for West Ham United * George Taylor (footballer, born 1948), Scottish footballer, played for Grimsby Town * George Taylor (rugby union) (born 1996), Scottish former rugby union player


Academics

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George E. Taylor (historian) George Edward Taylor (13 December 1905 – 14 April 2000) was a prolific and influential scholar of Chinese studies, professor at University of Washington, Seattle from 1939 to 1969, and director of the Far Eastern and Russian Institute (later the ...
(1905–2000), China scholar, University of Washington professor * George Francis Taylor (died 2011), historian and archeologist at the American University of Beirut. *
George H. Taylor (meteorologist) George H. Taylor (born 1947) is the former director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University in Corvallis, a position he held from 1989 until his retirement on 1 May 2008. Education and career Born in Santa Barbara, California, T ...
(born 1947), former director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University * George Pritchard Taylor (1854–?), grammarian *
George Rogers Taylor George Rogers Taylor (1895 – April 11, 1983) was an American economic historian, best known for his 1951 work ''The Transportation Revolution, 1815–1860''. Biography Taylor was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He was the son of Webb Vine Taylor ...
(1895–1983), American economic historian of the early republic *
George Watson-Taylor George Watson-Taylor (1771 – 6 Jun 1841), of Saul's River, Jamaica, was the fourth son of George Watson. From 1810 he was the husband of Anna Susana Taylor, the daughter of Jamaican planter Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet, and heiress of her brothe ...
(1771–1841), British collector * George W. Taylor (professor) (1901–1972), American academic and labor mediator


Others

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George Taylor (artist) George Taylor (1914–1996) was an English artist. He has prominence for his functional pub signs in a distinct hybrid modern-meets-traditional style. Taylor trained as a signwriter in Birmingham. In the 1930s he worked for a signwriting co ...
(1914–1996), English commercial artist *Sir
George Taylor (botanist) Sir George Taylor, FRS FRSE FLS LLD (15 February 1904, in Edinburgh – 13 November 1993, in Dunbar) was a Scottish botanist. Life He was born at 5 West Preston Street the son of George William Taylor, a painter and decorator, and his wife, ...
(1904–1993), British botanist, from 1956 to 1971 director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew * George Taylor (gardener) (1803–1891), introduced celery to the United States * George A. Taylor (bishop), American prelate *
Tony Taylor (GC) George Anthony Morgan Taylor, George Cross, GC (30 October 1917 – 19 August 1972) was an Australian Volcanologist awarded the George Cross in 1952 for "conspicuous courage in the face of great danger" during the eruption of Mount Lamingto ...
(George Anthony Morgan Taylor, 1917–1972), Australian recipient of the George Cross *
George Augustine Taylor George Augustine Taylor (1 August 1872 – 20 January 1928) was an Australian artist, journalist, and inventor. Life Taylor was born at Sydney in 1872. He began his working life articled to an architect (a Mr Hobbs). However, he first became k ...
(1872–1928), Australian artist and journalist * George Keith Taylor (1769–1815), U.S. federal judge * George Ledwell Taylor (1788–1873), English architect * George Caldwell Taylor (1885–1952), U.S. federal judge *
George Taylor (priest) George Taylor, M.A. (died 1811) was Rector of Aldford from 1769 until his death; and Archdeacon of Chester The Archdeacon of Chester is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the diocese of Chester. The area in which she, or he, has statutory duties i ...
(died 1811), Anglican priest *
G. I. Taylor Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and mathematician, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as ...
(George Ingram Taylor, 1886–1975), British physicist *
George H. Taylor (physician) George Herbert Taylor (January 4, 1821 – December 9, 1896) was an American physician and inventor associated with the natural hygiene and physical culture movements. He was known for his practice of homeopathy and introducing Swedish massage ...
(1821–1896), American physician and inventor *
George Taylor (DC Comics) George Taylor is a fictional character appearing in Superman comic books published by DC Comics. He is the editor-in-chief of the Metropolis newspaper the '' Daily Star''. An early Superman supporting character, he was created by Jerry Siegel and ...
, fictional character in the DC Comics universe, chief editor of the ''Daily Star'' * Taylor (''Planet of the Apes''), Colonel George Taylor, fictional hero of the first two films of the original ''Planet of the Apes'' series played by Charlton Heston


See also

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Taylor (disambiguation) Taylor, Taylors or Taylor's may refer to: People * Taylor (surname) **List of people with surname Taylor * Taylor (given name), including Tayla and Taylah * Taylor sept, a branch of Scottish clan Cameron * Justice Taylor (disambiguation) Plac ...
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List of people with surname Taylor Taylor is an English occupational surname of Norman origin. Listed here are notable people who share this surname. Art * Josephine Taylor, American artist *Leonard Campbell Taylor (1874–1969), English painter and war artist * Mary Taylor (b ...
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