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Gerson von Bleichröder
Gerson von Bleichröder (22 December 1822 – 18 February 1893) was a Jewish German banker.
Bleichröder was born in Berlin. He was the eldest son of Samuel Bleichröder, who founded the banking firm of S. Bleichröder in 1803 in Berlin. Ger ...
(1822–1893), Jewish German banker
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Gérson Caçapa (born 1967), Brazilian former footballer
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Gerson Goldhaber
Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark. He worked at Lawrence Be ...
(1924–2010), German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist
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Gerson Guimarães Júnior, (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
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Gérson Magrão
Gérson Alencar de Lima Júnior (born 13 June 1985), known as Gérson Magrão, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ituano.
Magrão has played professionally in Brazil, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Portugal.
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(born 1985), Brazilian footballer
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Gerson Mayen (born 1989), Salvadoran-American footballer
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Gérson
Gérson de Oliveira Nunes, generally known as Gérson (; born 11 January 1941 in Niterói), nicknamed ''Canhotinha de ouro'' (literally: Golden left foot), is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a midfielder. He won numerous ...
or Gérson de Oliveira Nunes (born 1941), Brazilian footballer
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Gerson Rosenzweig (1861–1914), writer and poet
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Gerson Santos da Silva (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
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Gérson da Silva, (1965–1994), Brazilian footballer
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Gerson Victalino
Gerson Victalino (19 September 1959 – 29 April 2020), also commonly known simply as Gerson, was a Brazilian professional basketball player.
National team career
With the senior Brazilian national basketball team, Victalino won a silver me ...
(born 1959), Brazilian Olympic basketball player
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Dora Gerson
Dora Gerson (born Dorothea Gerson; 23 March 1899 – 14 February 1943) was a German cabaret singer and stage and motion picture actress of the silent film era who was murdered with her family at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Life and career
Born ...
(1899–1943), German Jewish actress and cabaret singer killed at Auschwitz
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Georg Hartog Gerson
Georg Hartog Gerson (25 August 1788 – 3 December 1844) was a medical doctor and surgeon in the King's German Legion during the Napoleonic Wars.
Dr. Gerson was born in Hamburg. He came from a family of doctors who had been living and worki ...
(1788–1844), German surgeon in the King’s German Legion during the Napoleonic Wars
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Horst Gerson
Horst Gerson (2 March 1907 – 10 June 1978) was a German-Dutch art historian.
Biography
Gerson was born in Berlin on 2 March 1907, and after studying art history in Vienna, he became a pupil and assistant of Cornelis Hofstede de Groot and worke ...
(1907–1978) was a German-Dutch art historian.
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Jean Gerson
Jean Charlier de Gerson (13 December 1363 – 12 July 1429) was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Co ...
(1363–1429), French scholar and theologian
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John Gerson
John Gerson was deputy head of MI6. He studied Art History at the University of Freiburg and then went to King's College, Cambridge. He went to India on the Commonwealth Expedition (COMEX) in 1965.
He was HM Consul in Beijing from 1974 to 19 ...
, deputy head of MI6
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José Gerson Ramos
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ).
In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...
(born 1981), Brazilian footballer also known as simply Gérson
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Marlene Gerson
Marlene Gerson (born June 1940) is a female former tennis player from South Africa who was active in the late 1950s and the first half of the 1960s. Her best singles result at the Wimbledon Championships was reaching the third round in 1959. Par ...
(born 1940), South African tennis player
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Max Gerson
Max Gerson (October 18, 1881 – March 8, 1959) was a German-born American physician who developed the Gerson Therapy, a dietary-based alternative cancer treatment that he claimed could cure cancer and most chronic, degenerative diseases.
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(1881–1959), German physician, known for Gerson therapy, an alternative therapy for cancer and chronic diseases
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Michael Gerson
Michael John Gerson (May 15, 1964 – November 17, 2022) was an American journalist and speechwriter. He was a neoconservative op-ed columnist for ''The Washington Post'', a Policy Fellow with One Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center fo ...
(1964–2022), newspaper columnist and former speechwriter and adviser to US President George W. Bush
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Noel Gerson
Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, ''The Naked Maja'', and ''55 Days at Peking''.
Peacock, ...
(1913–1988), American author
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Victor Gerson
Haim Victor Gerson DSO, LdH (b. 1898—d. ?), code name Rene, was a Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War. He organised the Vic escape line in France. Escape lines helped allied soldiers and airmen, SOE agents, and othe ...
, French resistance in World War II
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Wojciech Gerson
Wojciech Gerson (; July 1, 1831 – February 25, 1901) was a leading Polish people, Polish Painting, painter of the mid-19th century, and one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism (arts), Realism during the foreign Part ...
(1831–1901), Polish painter and academic
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Gershon (disambiguation)
Gershon (Hebrew: גֵּרְשׁוֹן) was the oldest son of Levi in the Torah.
Gershon may also refer to:
* Gersonides (1288–1344), French rabbi also known as Levi ben Gershon
* Gershon Review (2004–2005), a review of efficiency in the ...
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Gershom (disambiguation)
Gershom is the firstborn son of Moses.
Gershom may also refer to:
* Gershom ben Judah (c. 960 -1040? -1028?), Rabbeinu Gershom
* Gershom Browne (1898–2000)
* Gershom Bulkeley (1636–1721), Christian minister and physician
* Gershom Carmicha ...
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