George Gordon

George Gordon may refer to:

By career

Military

  • George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), U.S. Army general
  • George Gordon (Civil War general) (1836–1911), Civil War General, Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. Representative from Tennessee
  • George Grant Gordon (1836–1912), British Army officer and courtier

Political figures

  • George Gordon of Tulloch, commissioner for Aberdeen (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
  • Sir George Gordon (died 1690), commissioner for Banffshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
  • George Gordon (died 1691), burgh commissioner for Dornoch (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
  • Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), British politician
  • George Newcombe Gordon (1879–1949), Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister
  • George Gordon (Ontario politician) (1888–1971), Member of Provincial Parliament
  • George Gordon (Canadian politician) (1865–1942), senator from Ontario
  • George William Gordon (1820–1865), Jamaican politician
  • George A. Gordon (1885–1959), American attorney and diplomat
  • George Anderson Gordon (1830–1872), American politician from Georgia
  • George John Robert Gordon (1812−1902), British diplomat

Religious figures

  • George N. Gordon (1822–1861), Protestant missionary to the South Pacific
  • George Gordon (priest) (1760–1845), Dean of Exeter and of Lincoln

Sciences

  • George Gordon (botanist) (1806–1879), gardener and horticultural writer
  • George Gordon (horticulturalist) (1841–1914), British horticulturalist and writer, awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour
  • George Gordon (engineer) (1829–1907), Scottish Australian civil engineer
  • George Phineas Gordon (1821–1878), American inventor, printer and businessman

Sports

  • George Croughly Gordon (1850–1899), Scottish amateur international footballer
  • George Gordon (Australian footballer) (1902–1990), Australian rules footballer with Fitzroy
  • George Gordon (New South Wales cricketer) (1846–1923), Australian cricketer
  • George Gordon (Victoria cricketer) (1860–1946), Australian cricketer

Writers and academics

  • George Byron Gordon (1870–1927), American archaeologist
  • George Stuart Gordon (1881–1942), British academic and professor of poetry
  • George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), British Romantic poet more commonly known as Lord Byron

Others

  • George Gordon (animator) (1906–1986), American animator and director of cartoons for TV
  • George Gordon (scenic artist) (c. 1839–1899), in England and Australia
  • George Gordon (merchant), colonial American landholder
  • George Stanley Gordon (1926–2013), American advertising executive

By family

Members of the Scottish Clan Gordon

See also

  • George Hamilton-Gordon (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with George Gordon
  • All pages with titles containing George Gordon
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