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Birthplace and home of the University of Florida,
Gainesville couples small-town hospitality with big city
culture, an international population and nightly drink specials.

A great place to get an education, if not for all those pesky classes to attend.





Mohandas Gandhi

Diminutive, bald-pated Indian who dared take Thoreau's
example to heart and stand up to those imperialist Brits.

Proof positive that sometimes simplest is best.





Greta Garbo

Solitude-loving Swiss thespian made only
a handful of films yet left an indelible
impression on Hollywood and our collective loins.






Teri Garr

Funny, sharp, vulnerable and extremely versatile,
Garr overcomes a dancehall reputation and average
facade to dwell in the twilight of our waking fantasies.

Her willingness to enjoy a shower on the old Letterman
show remains a highlight of her oft-overlooked career.





Will Geer

Most famous for his portrayal of beloved patriarch
Grandpa in The Waltons television series in the 1970s,
Geer received his master’s degree in botany
from the University of Chicago and was blacklisted
after refusing to testify before the
House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1950s.

More than just another perty face.

Frank Gehry

Theodor Seuss Geisel



Oddball poet and illustrator occupied such a vaulted place
in our childhood that many modern doodads and acquaintances
now bear his unmistakable imprint.

Who could observe Lyle Lovett or a Taipei skyscraper without
favorably recollecting the goings-on in Whoville?





Giant IguanaFlawless, dependable transportation couples durability
and functionality like few since Brigitte Bardot (see separate entry).

Swiss surrealist & Oscar-winning Alien illustrator
Giger specializes in the kind of naightmarish, grotesque coupling
of man and machine that only flourishes in a truly twisted mind.





King Gillette

Inventor of the safety razor and author of The Human Drift,
which advocated the absorption of all industry
into a single, publicly owned company.

Terry Gilliam

From Monty Python to Time Bandits,
blithely bizarre illustrator turned director
is responsible for some of our favorite
visual feasts, Fear & Loathing notwithstanding.






Allen Ginsberg

Patron saint of oddball beatnik verse,
Ginsberg overcomes his ill-advised forays
into folk-singing horridness by sheer force
of keen eye and plainspoken truth.

Lillian Gish

From Birth of a Nation to Night of the Hunter
to The Love Bug, silent sweetie-pie
Miss Lillian still makes us go all a-flicker.





Gobstoppers



Jaw-breaker + tart center = smile.





God

The mighty Almighty.





Steve Goodman



Diminutive late Chicago-based singer-songwriter/producer
was at once hilarious, prodigiously talented and kinda creepy.





Grouper

Favorite among finned fish foods.





Woody Guthrie

Left-leaning folker poet always walked it like he talked it.

Grandfather of all hardscrabble troubadors to come.

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