Category: Biography
Johannes Gutenberg Johannes Gutenberg (1390-1468), German printer, who invented a method of printing from movable metal type. He worked initially with goldsmiths in Strasbourg but had financial troubles and …
Alec Guinness Alec Guinness (1914), British stage and screen actor. Having first appeared on stage in 1934, Guinness gained recognition for distinguished performances in Shakespearean roles, especially for his …
Meyer Guggenheim Meyer Guggenheim (182871905), US industrialist, born in Switzerland. In 1847 he went to the US and by 1901 he dominated the mining industry there. Of his seven …
Che Guevara Che Guevara real name Ernesto Guevara (1928-67). Argentinian revolutionary. A qualified doctor, he left Argentina in 1953 because of his opposition to the dictator Person. He became …
Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Dutch political philosopher. He was active in Netherlands politics and arrested as a republican in 1618. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he escaped to France …
Walter Gropius Walter Gropius (1883-1969), US architect, born in Berlin. He studied architecture in Munich and Berlin and founded the Bauhaus school of architecture in Weimar (1919). In 1925 …
Jacob Grimm Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), German scholars. Their famous collection of folk-tales, many, of which had never been written down before, was published …
Joseph Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi (1779-1837), British clown. The son of an Italian actor, he first performed at the age of two as a child dancer at Sadler’s Wells. He …
