Gregor is a masculine
given name
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Gregor Abel
Gregor Abel (born 9 April 1949) is a Scottish former football player and manager. Abel played for Falkirk, Clydebank and Alloa Athletic.
After retiring as a player, he became a coach at Alloa Athletic and then Falkirk, assisting Alex Totten ...
(born 1949), Scottish footballer
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Gregor Adlercreutz
Gregor Nils Henric Adlercreutz (16 August 1898 – 3 June 1944) was a Swedish equestrian who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He and his horse ''Teresina'' placed fourth in the individual dressage competition and won a bronze medal with t ...
(1898–1944), Swedish equestrian
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Gregor Aichinger
Gregor Aichinger (c. 1565 – 21 January 1628) was a German composer.
Life
He was organist to the Fugger family of Augsburg in 1584. In 1599 he went for a two-year visit to Rome
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(c. 1565–1628), German composer
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Gregor Amann
Gregor Amann (born 15 August 1962 in Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg) is a German politician and member of the SPD
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social demo ...
(born 1962), German politician
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Gregor Arbet
Gregor Arbet (born 19 June 1983) is a former Estonian professional basketball player and the current assistant coach for TalTech of the Estonian Korvpalli Meistriliiga. He is a 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall shooting guard and small forward. He rep ...
(born 1983), Estonian basketball player
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Gregor Bailar
Gregor Bailar (born May 3, 1963) is a US technology executive, professional director, and philanthropist who held executive roles at Citibank, NASDAQ and Capital One. He managed technology and operations for the NASDAQ Stock Market during the d ...
(born 1963), American businessman
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Gregor Bajde
Gregor Bajde (born 29 April 1994) is a Slovenian footballer who plays for Celje as a winger.
Honours
Maribor
*Slovenian Championship: 2016–17, 2018–19
*Slovenian Cup
Slovene or Slovenian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related ...
(born 1994), Slovenian footballer
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Gregor Balažic
Gregor Balažic (born 12 February 1988) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Slovenian PrvaLiga club Mura.
In Slovenia, he played for Mura and Gorica. He had spells abroad in Spain, Ukraine, Serbia, Russi ...
(born 1988), Slovenian footballer
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Gregor Baumgartner (born 1979), Austrian ice hockey player
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Gregor Becke
Gregor Becke (born 12 October 1972 in Salzburg) is an Austrian whitewater slalom, slalom canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. He finished 33rd in the Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom K-1, K-1 event at the ...
(born 1972), Austrian canoer
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Gregor Belkovsky (1865–1948), Zionist activist
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Gregor Benko
Gregor Benko (born August 4, 1944 Cleveland, Ohio, United States) is an American writer, lecturer, record producer, and collector-historian whose primary focus is classical piano performance documented on recordings from (or having to do with) the ...
(born 1944), American music historian
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Gregor Bermbach
Gregor Bermbach (born 17 February 1981) is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2006. He has two World Cup victories in the four-man events during the 2008–09 season.
At the FIBT World Championships 2009 in Lake Placid, New York, Bermba ...
(born 1981), German bobsledder
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Gregor Betz
Gregor Betz (born 21 November 1948) is a German former swimmer. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Muni ...
(born 1948), German swimmer
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Gregor Bialowas
Gregor Bialowas (born 26 August 1959) is an Austrian weightlifter. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 198 ...
(born 1959), Austrian weightlifter
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Gregor Blanco
Gregor Miguel Blanco Pedraza (born December 24, 1983) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, the Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, Washington Nationals, ...
(born 1983), Venezuelan baseball player
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Gregor Blatnik
Gregor Blatnik (born 15 December 1972) is a Slovenian retired international footballer who played as a defender.
Career
Blatnik was capped twice by the Slovenian national team
Slovene or Slovenian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or relate ...
(born 1972), Slovenian footballer
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Gregor Brandmüller
Gregor Brandmüller (or Georg), was a late 17th-century Swiss painter, a pupil of Charles Le Brun.
Life
Brandmüller was born at Basel, Basle in 1661, the son of a member of the council. His father owned a collection of drawings and prints, and Br ...
(1661–1691), Swiss painter
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Gregor Braun
Gregor Braun (; born 31 December 1955) is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1989 and who became a multiple Olympic Gold medaillist and track world champion. his profession was ...
(born 1955), German cyclist
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Gregor Breinburg
Gregor Breinburg (born 16 September 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for ADO Den Haag in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. Born in the Netherlands, he represents the Aruba national team.
Club career
He formerly played for D ...
(born 1991), Aruban footballer
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Gregor Brown
Gregor Brown (born 1 July 2001) is a Scottish rugby union player for Glasgow Warriors in the Pro14. Brown's primary position is lock or flanker.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Brown was a pupil at Robert Gordon's College
Robert Gor ...
(born 2001), Scottish rugby union player
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Gregor Brück
Gregor Brück (1485–1557) was a 16th-century figure of the Reformation, and Saxon Chancellor. He is also known by his latinised name Gregorius Pontanus. His role in the early 16th century in Germany, as legal advisor to Martin Luther, may ...
(1483–1557), German figure of the Reformation, and Saxon Chancellor
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Gregor Buchanan
Gregor Buchanan (born 31 March 1990) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish League Two club Dumbarton where he is the club's vice-captain.
After progressing through Falkirk's youth academy, Buchanan played for Scottish ...
(born 1990), Scottish footballer
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Gregor Cailliet
Gregor Michel Cailliet is an American scientist who studies the ecology of marine fishes. He is professor emeritus at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, part of The California State University, having officially retired in 2009.
Education and ca ...
, American scientist
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Gregor Cameron
Gregor Ewen Cameron (born 11 January 1964) is a former New Zealand athlete who represented his country at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
Early life and family
Cameron was born in Dunedin on 11 January 1964, the son of Linda and Clive Cameron, an ...
(born 1964), New Zealand athlete
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Gregor Cankar
Gregor Cankar (born 25 January 1975 in Celje) is a Slovenian track and field athlete competing in long jump who won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. He finished sixth at the 1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer ...
(born 1975), Slovenian long jumper
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Gregor Chatsatourian
Gregor Chatsatourian (born 19 April 1977) is a Greek handball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the ...
(born 1977), Greek handball player
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Gregor Clemens
Gregor Clemens (born 26 June 1982 in Leipzig, Germany) is a fashion designer and designer of jewellery.
Clemens grew up as the son of information technology specialist Eberhard Clemens and his wife Sylvia Clemens.
After finishing grammar school ...
(born 1982), German fashion designer
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Gregor Collins
Gregor Collins (born August 22, 1976) is an American author, speaker, actor and former reality television producer, best known for playing Matt in the mumblecore film ''Goodbye Promise'', and for writing the memoir '' The Accidental Caregiver: H ...
(born 1976), American actor, writer and producer
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Gregor Croudis
Greg Croudis (born 14 January 1993) is a New Zealand cricketer. He made his List A debut for Otago on 15 January 2017 in the 2016–17 Ford Trophy
The 2016–17 Ford Trophy was the 46th season of the official List A cricket tournament in ...
(born 1993), New Zealand cricketer
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Gregor Cvijič
Gregor Cvijič (born 26 March 1972) is a Slovenian handball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dha ...
(born 1972), Slovenian handball player
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Gregor Deschwanden
Gregor Deschwanden (born 27 February 1991) is a Swiss ski jumper. His best individual World Cup showing so far is 10th in an individual large hill in Germany in 2013.
Deschwanden competed for Switzerland in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, ...
(born 1991), Swiss ski jumper
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Gregor Dorfmeister (1929–2018), German writer
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Gregor Duncan (artist)
Gregor Keane Duncan (February 12, 1910–May 28, 1944) was an American artist who specialized in pen-and-ink drawings for magazines, books and newspapers.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Duncan grew up in Sausalito, California, the son of Charles an ...
(1910–1944), American illustrator
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Gregor Duncan (bishop) (born 1950), Scottish Episcopalian bishops
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Gregor Ebner
Gregor Ebner (24 June 1892 – 22 March 1974) was a medical doctor from Kirchseeon near Munich. During the time of Nazi Germany he served as the medical leader of all the Lebensborn Homes.
Life
Ebner was born in Ichenhausen to Gregor Ebner, a ...
(1892–1974), German military doctor
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Gregor Edelmann
Gregor Edelmann (born 1954) is a German journalist, screenwriter and dramaturge based in Berlin.
Life
Edelmann was born in Suhl, an industrial town near Erfurt in the southern part of what was then the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). H ...
(born 1954), German journalist and screenwriter
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Gregor Edmunds
Gregor Edmunds (born 1977) is a Scottish Highland Games competitor and strongman. Gregor is a winner of the World Highland Games Championships, world record holder in Highland games throwing the 28lb weight 95’10.5" Highlander Challenge, and ...
(born 1977), Scottish athlete
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Gregor Erhart
Gregor Erhart (c. 1470? – 1540) was a German sculptor who was born at Ulm, the son of sculptor Michel Erhart. Gregor spent his working career at Augsburg, where he was made master in 1496, and where he died.
Attributions of sculpture to his wo ...
, German sculptor
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Gregor Ewan
Gregor Ewan (born 28 June 1971) is a Scottish wheelchair curler who competed for Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. It was his Paralympic debut.
Career
He won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics at Sochi
Sochi ( rus ...
(born 1971), Scottish wheelchair curler
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Gregor Fink (born 1984), Slovenian footballer
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Gregor Fisher
Gregor Fisher (born 22 December 1953) is a Scottish comedian and actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the comedy series ''Rab C. Nesbitt'', a role he has played since the show's first episode in 1988. He has also ...
(born 1953), Scottish comedian and actor
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Gregor Fisken
Gregor Fisken is a British racing driver and businessman (born 28 September 1964) who currently races historic and modern-day sportscars. He is one of only a handful of racing drivers to have driven in all four classes (LMP1, LMP2, GT1 and GT2) ...
(born 1964), British racing driver
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Gregor Foitek (born 1965), Swiss racing driver
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Gregor Fučka
Gregor Fučka (; born 7 August 1971) is a Slovenian-Italian retired professional basketball player and coach. A 215 cm (7' ") forward-center, he was a both a Mister Europa and Euroscar laureate in 2000.
Professional career
Fučka playe ...
(born 1971), Slovenian-Italian basketball player and coach
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Gregor Gall
Gregor Gall (born 1967) is a British left-wing academic and writer, who has taught at several British universities.
Career
He was professor of industrial relations at the University of Bradford and before then professors of industrial relatio ...
(born 1967), British academic
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Gregor Gazvoda
Gregor Gazvoda (born 15 October 1981) is a Slovenian former professional racing cyclist, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team .
Career
After racing for at Continental level for four years – the team folded ...
(born 1981), Slovenian cyclist
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Gregor George
William Gregor George (13 October 1903 – prior to 22 March 1933) was a rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of ...
, Australian rugby union player
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Gregor Gillespie
Gregor Volz Gillespie (born March 18, 1987) is an American professional mixed martial artist and graduated collegiate wrestler who currently competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional since ...
(born 1987), American mixed martial artist
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Gregor Glas
Gregor Glas (born 29 April 2001) is a Slovenian professional basketball player for KK Mornar Bar of the Montenegrian Prva A Liga and the Adriatic ABA League. He is a 1.97 m tall shooting guard.
Professional career
Glas started playing professio ...
(born 2001), Slovenian basketball player
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Gregor Golobič
Gregor Golobič (born January 20, 1964) is a Slovenian politician. Between 2007 and 2012 he was president of the left liberal party ''Zares'' and between November 2008 and June 2011, he served as Minister for Science and Higher Education of Slo ...
(born 1964), Slovenian politician
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Gregor Grant
Gregor J. Grant was born in 1911. He attended the Glasgow School of Art and soon was contributing articles, drawings, and caricatures to newspapers and magazines including The Light Car. He was injured in Normandy during World War II.
In Augus ...
(born 1911), British writer
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Gregor Grilc
Gregor Grilc (born 13 February 1970 in Šenčur) is a Slovenian former alpine skier who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. oly ...
(born 1970), Slovenian alpine skier
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Gregor Gysi
Gregor Florian Gysi (; born 16 January 1948) is a German attorney, former president of the Party of the European Left and a prominent politician of The Left (''Die Linke'') political party.
He belonged to the reformist wing of the governing So ...
(born 1948), German politician
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Gregor Hagedorn
Gregor Hagedorn (born 1965) is a German botanist and academic director at the Natural History Museum, Berlin.
Life
Gregor Hagedorn studied biology at the University of Tübingen and at Duke University (North Carolina). Afterwards, he worke ...
(born 1965), German botanist
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Gregor Haloander Gregor Haloander (born as Gregor Meltzer; 1501 – 7 September 1531) was a German legal scholar. He authored a recension of the '' Digest'' of Roman law
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning ov ...
(1501–1531), German legal scholar
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Gregor Hammerl (born 1942), Austrian politician
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Gregor Hasler
Gregor Hasler, M.D. is a Swiss psychiatry researcher, psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He is professor and chair of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His research areas covers stress, depression, bipolar ...
, Swiss psychiatrist
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Gregor Hauffe (born 1982), German rower
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Gregor Hayter
Gregor Hayter (born 13 August 1976 in Scotland) is a Scotland, Scottish former rugby union player who played for Glasgow Warriors at the Rugby union positions#Lock, Lock position. He also previously played for Caledonia Reds and Edinburgh Rugby ...
(born 1976), Scottish rugby union player
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Gregor Helfenstein
Gregor Helfenstein (1559–1632) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Trier (1599–1632). (1559–1632), Roman Catholic prelate
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Gregor Henderson, Australian Christian minister
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Gregor Herzfeld
Gregor Herzfeld (born in 1975) is a German musicologist.
Life and career
Herzfeld studied musicology and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the "Scuola di Paleografia musicale" from 1996 to 2001. In 2001 he obtained ...
(born 1975), German musicologist
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Gregor Hildebrandt (born 1974), German contemporary artist
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Gregor Jordan
Gregor Jordan (born 1966) is an Australian film director.
Jordan's films include ''Two Hands (1999 film), Two Hands'' (1999), ''Buffalo Soldiers (2001 film), Buffalo Soldiers'' (2001), and ''Ned Kelly (2003 film), Ned Kelly'' (2003).
''Two Hand ...
(born 1966), Australian film director
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Gregor Mackintosh
Paradise Lost are an English gothic metal band that formed in 1988 in Halifax, considered to be among the pioneers of the death-doom genre, and regarded as the main influence for the later gothic metal movement. Bands that have cited Paradis ...
, lead guitarist and main composer of English doom metal band Paradise Lost
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Gregor McGregor
Gregor McGregor (18 October 1848 – 13 August 1914) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for South Australia from 1901 until his death in 1914, representing the Labor Party. He was the party's inaugural Senate leader, and serv ...
(1848–1914), Australian politician
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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel, Augustinians, OSA (; cs, Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was a biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinians, Augustinian friar and abbot of St Thomas's Abbey, Brno, St. Thomas' Abbey in Br ...
(1822–1884), scientist, father of genetics
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Gregor Mühlberger
Gregor Mühlberger (born 4 April 1994) is an Austrian cyclist, who currently rides for the UCI WorldTeam .
Career
He was named in the start list for the 2016 Vuelta a España and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia. In July 2018, he was n ...
(born 1994), Austrian cyclist
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Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch
Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (22 November 1790 – 22 July 1861) was a German classical scholar known chiefly for his writings on Homeric epic.
Brother of Karl Immanuel Nitzsch, he was born at Wittenberg. In 1827 he was appointed professor of ancient l ...
(1790–1861), German classical scholar
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Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky (, ''Grigoriy Pavlovich Pyatigorskiy''; August 6, 1976) was a Russian Empire-born American cellist.
Biography
Early life
Gregor Piatigorsky was born in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. As a child, ...
(1903–1976), Russian-born American cellist
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Gregor Schlierenzauer
Gregor Schlierenzauer (; born 7 January 1990) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2006 to 2021. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Ski Jumping World Cup overall titl ...
(born 1990), Austrian ski jumper
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Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser (also german: Straßer, see ß; 31 May 1892 – 30 June 1934) was an early prominent German Nazi Party, Nazi official and politician who was murdered during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Born in 1892 in Bavaria, Strasse ...
(1892–1934), German Nazi Party official and politician
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Gregor Townsend
Gregor Peter John Townsend, (born 26 April 1973) is a Scottish rugby union coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of the Scotland national team having previously been an assistant coach from 2009 to 2012. As a player, he won ...
(born 1973), Scottish rugby union player and coach
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Gregor Urbas
Gregor Urbas (born 20 November 1982 in Jesenice) is a Slovenian former competitive figure skater. He is a three-time Golden Spin of Zagreb champion, a five-time Triglav Trophy champion, the 2006 Ondrej Nepela Memorial champion, and a nine-time ...
(born 1982), Slovenian figure skater
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Gregor Verbinski
Gregor Justin "Gore" Verbinski (born March 16, 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and musician. He is best known for directing '' The Ring'', the '' Pirates of the Caribbean'' films, and '' Rango''. He won the Academy ...
(born 1964), American film director, also known as Gore Verbinski
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Gregor Virant
Gregor Virant (born 4 December 1969) is a Slovenian politician and public servant. Between 2004 and 2008, he served as Minister of Public Administration in Janez Janša's first government, between 2011–2013 he was Speaker of the National Assemb ...
(born 1969), Slovenian politician
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Gregor Weiss
Gregor Richard Weiss (born February 18, 1941) is an American artistic gymnast. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics, placing 7th in the team event and 59th in the individual all-around. He was a member of the U.S. team at ...
(born 1941), American artistic gymnast
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Gregor Wenning (born 1964), German neurologist
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Gregor Wentzel
Gregor Wentzel (17 February 1898 – 12 August 1978) was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early y ...
(1898–1978), German physicist
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Gregor Werner
Gregor Joseph Werner (28 January 1693 – 3 March 1766) was an Austrian composer of the Baroque period, best known as the predecessor of Joseph Haydn as the ''Kapellmeister'' of the Hungarian Esterházy family. Few of Werner's works survive to the ...
(1693–1766), Austrian classical composer
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Gregor Widholm (born 1948), Austrian academic and musician
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Gregor Willmes (born 1966), German musicologist
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Gregor W. Yeates (1944–2012), New Zealand scientist
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Gregor Young
Gregor Young (born 8 February 1966) is a Canadian soccer coach and former professional player.
International career
Young was part of the Canada team that played at the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.
He made his senior debut for Canada
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(born 1966), Canadian soccer player and coach
Fictional characters
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Gregor Clegane
Gregor Clegane, nicknamed "The Mountain That Rides" or simply "The Mountain", is a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation ''Game of Th ...
, nicknamed "The Mountain", a character in
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels '' A So ...
's ''
A Song of Ice and Fire
''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who init ...
'' and its television adaptation ''
Game of Thrones
''Game of Thrones'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first ...
''
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Gregor Samsa
''Metamorphosis'' (german: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, ''Metamorphosis'' tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himsel ...
, main character of Franz Kafka's ''
The Metamorphosis
''Metamorphosis'' (german: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, ''Metamorphosis'' tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himsel ...
''
* King Gregor Markov, a supporting character in DC Comics' ''
Young Justice
Young Justice is a fictional DC Comics superhero team consisting of teenaged heroes.
The team was formed in 1998 when DC's usual teen hero group, the Teen Titans, had become adults and changed their name to the Titans. Like the original ''Teen ...
s third season
* Gregor, a beetle-shaped demon in the novel ''
Slawter
Darren O'Shaughnessy (; born 2 July 1972), is an Irish writer and novelist. He is best known for his young adult fiction series ''The Saga of Darren Shan'', ''The Demonata'', and ''Zom-B'', published under the pseudonym Darren Shan. The former w ...
''
* Gregor, the protagonist of ''
The Underland Chronicles
''The Underland Chronicles'' is a series of five epic fantasy novels by Suzanne Collins, first published between 2003 and 2007. It tells the story of a boy named Gregor and his adventures in the "Underland,” a subterranean world located under ...
''
* Gregor, the slave name given to Severin by Wanda in the ''
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term ''masochism'' is derived from his name, invented by h ...
'' novel ''
Venus In Furs
''Venus in Furs'' (german: Venus im Pelz, links=no) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called '' Legacy of Cai ...
''
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Gregory (given name)
The masculine Given name, first name Gregory derives from the Latin name "Gregorius", which came from the late Greek name "Γρηγόριος" (Grēgórios) meaning "watchful, alert" (derived from Greek "γρηγoρεῖν" "grēgorein" meaning "t ...
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