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Gerceida E. Adams-Jones is an American physicist, a clinical associate professor at New York University, and a faculty member at Pioneer Academics, an online research program for high school students connected with Oberlin College. In 1981, she became the…
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Germaine A. Hoston is an American and French political scientist, political theorist, and political theologian and professor at the University of California San Diego, specializing in comparative politics and political theory, East Asian and European…
1926–2006
Gertrude Teixeira Hunter (1926 – March 12, 2006) was an American doctor and professor of medicine. She served as the national director of health services for Head Start, and later became health administrator for the New England region of the United States…
1951–
Gerunda Burke Hughes (born 1951) is an American scholar of education, focusing on educational assessment in mathematics education. She is a professor emerita in the Howard University School of Education, where she taught in the Department of Curriculum and…
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Gibor Basri (b. May 3, 1951) is an American astrophysicist, now Professor Emeritus in the Astronomy department at U.C. Berkeley. His research focused on stellar magnetic activity, star formation, and low mass stars and brown dwarfs.
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Gilbert Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American jazz poet, singer, musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson fused jazz, blues and…
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Gilda A. Barabino was the president of the Olin College of Engineering from 2020 to 2025, where she currently teaches as a professor of Biomedical and Chemical engineering. On March 4, 2021, she became the president-elect of the American Association for…
1960–
Gillian Bowser is an American wildlife ecologist, research scientist, and associate professor at Colorado State University. Her work largely centers on climate change with focuses on pollinators and citizen science.
1963–
Gina Spivey-Brown (born April 4, 1963) is an American nurse and academic administrator. In 2025, she became the 12th president of Oakwood University, the first woman to hold the position in the institution's 129-year history.
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Ginny Holder is an actress best known for playing Thandie Abebe-Griffin on the BBC medical drama series Holby City. In 1999 she played in Wing Commander. Holder appeared in various British TV series, including The Bill and The Capture.
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Giovonnae Anderson (formerly Giovonnae Dennis) is an American electrical engineer. Dr. Anderson started her own business called Software Tailoring.
1975-06-12
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Giselle Corbie-Smith is an American physician who is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She serves as Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Associate Provost of…
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Gladys Geraldine Williams Royal (August 29, 1926 – November 9, 2002) is one of a small number of early African-American biochemists. Part of one of the few African-American husband-and-wife teams in science, Gladys worked with George C. Royal on research…
1930–
West’s precise modeling of the Earth’s shape during her career at a U.S. Navy base laid groundwork for the accuracy of the Global Positioning System.
1939–
Glenda Price is an American educator and former president of Marygrove College; she was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. Price also served as the president of the Detroit Public Schools Foundation and the American Society for…
1929–2017
Gloria Leon Baylis (née Clarke; June 29, 1929 – April 12, 2017) was a Barbadian Canadian civil rights activist, registered nurse and entrepreneur. She won the first-ever case of employment-related racial discrimination in Canada, and later founded the…
1930–
Gloria Twine Chisum (born 1930 in Muskogee, Oklahoma) is an experimental psychologist who eventually became a board member of the American Psychological Association, among many other organizations. An expert in visual problems associated with the operation…
1935–
Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born October 26, 1935) is an American mathematician. She was the fourth African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her main research interests were in group theory and abstract algebra.
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Gloria C. Gilmer (née Ford; June 28, 1928 – August 25, 2021) was an American mathematician and educator, notable for being the first African American woman to publish a non-PhD thesis.
1936–2017
Gloria Johnson-Powell (born Gloria Johnson, 1936 – October 11, 2017) was a child psychiatrist who was also an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and was one of the first African-American women to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School.
1938–
Gloria Long Anderson (born November 5, 1938) is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College, and its vice president for academic affairs. She has served as interim president of Morris Brown, and as vice chair of the Corporation…
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Gloria Elizabeth Reuben (born June 9, 1964) is a Canadian actress, producer, and singer. She is well-known for her role as Jeanie Boulet on the medical drama ER (1995–1999, 2008), for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy Award, and for portraying…
1917–2020
Goldie D. Brangman-Dumpson (October 2, 1917 – February 9, 2020) was an American nurse and educator. Brangman-Dumpson was a co-founder of the school of anesthesia at Harlem Hospital, where she worked most of her career. Later, she was the director of the…
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