| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist and philosopher |
| Karl Wilhelm Goettling (1793–1869), German classical scholar |
| Hermann Goetz (1840–1876), German musical composer |
| William Goffe (1605?–1679?), English parliamentarian |
| Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Russian novelist |
| Louis-Jérôme Gohier (1746–1830), French politician |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915), Indian constitutional leader |
| Melchior Goldast (1576–1635), Swiss writer |
| Georg August Goldfuss (1782–1848), German palæontologist |
| Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie (1846–1925), English administrator, the founder of Nigeria |
| Arthur Golding (1536–1606), English translator |
| Karl Goldmark (1830–1915), Hungarian composer |
| Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), Italian dramatist, the real founder of modern Italian comedy |
| Hermann Goldschmidt (1802–1866), German painter and astronomer |
| Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt (1819–1887), Danish novelist |
| Goldsmid, name of a family of Anglo-Jewish bankers |
| Lewis Goldsmith (c. 1763–1846), Anglo-French publicist |
| Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774), English poet, playwright, novelist and man of letters |
| Theodor Goldstücker (1821–1872), German Sanskrit scholar |
| Thomas Goldwell (d. 1585), English ecclesiastic |
| Ignác Goldziher (1850–1921), Jewish Hungarian orientalist |
| Goliath, name of the giant by slaying whom David achieved renown |
| Boris Aleksyeevich Golitsuin (1654–1714), Russian statesman |
| Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsuin (1665–1737), Russian statesman |
| Vasily Vasilevich Golitsuin (1643–1714), Russian statesman |
| Jacobus Golius (1596–1667), Dutch orientalist |
| Israel Gollancz (1864–1930), British man of letters, of Jewish family |
| Fedor Aleksyeevich Golovin (d. 1706), Russian statesman |
| Gavriil Ivanovich Golovkin (1660–1734), Russian statesman |
| Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin (1776–1831), Russian vice-admiral |
| Bogumil Goltz (1801–1870), German humorist and satirist |
| Colmar von der Goltz (1843–1916), Prussian general, military writer and organizer of the Turkish army |
| Hendrik Goltzius (1558–1617), Dutch painter and engraver |
| Agenor Gołuchowski (1849–1921), Austrian statesman |
| Franz Gomarus (1563–1641), Dutch theologian |
| Marin Le Roy, Sieur du Parc et de Gomberville (1600–1674), French novelist and miscellaneous writer |
| Diogo Gomez (c. 1420–c. 1485), Portuguese seaman, explorer and writer |
| Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814–1873), Spanish dramatist and poet |
| Sir William Maynard Gomm (1784–1875), British soldier |
| George Laurence Gomme (1853–1916), English archæologist |
| Samuel Gompers (1850–1924), American labor leader |
| Theodor Gomperz (1832–1912), German philosopher and classical scholar |
| Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), Russian novelist |
| Edmond (1822–1896) and Jules (1830–1870) de Goncourt, a name famous in French literary history |
| Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Conde de Gondomar (1567–1626), Spanish diplomatist |
| Gondophernes (fl. First Century A.D.), Indo-Parthian king |
| Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561–1627), Spanish lyric poet |
| Marie Joséphine Louise, Duchesse de Gontaut (1773–1857), French lady |
| Edmund Gonvile (d. 1351), founder of Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge |
| Gonzaga, Italian princely family |
| Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (1568–1591), Italian churchman |
| Tomás Antônio Gonzaga (1744–1807?), Portuguese poet |
| Manuel González (1833–1893), Mexican soldier |
| Tomás José González Carvajal (1753–1834), Spanish poet and statesman |
| Gil González Dávila (c. 1578–1658), Spanish biographer and antiquary |
| Ruy González de Clavijo (d. 1412), Spanish traveller |
| Pedro González de Mendoza (1428–1495), Spanish Cardinal and statesman |
| Sir Daniel Gooch (1816–1889), English mechanical engineer |
| John Mason Good (1764–1827), English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects |
| Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953), American writer |
| George Brown Goode (1851–1896), American ichthyologist |
| Godfrey Goodman (1583–1656), Bishop of Gloucester |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich (1790–1862), American clergyman and author |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich (1790–1860), American lexicographer |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793–1860), American author |
| Thomas Goodrich (d. 1554), English ecclesiastic |
| John Goodsir (1814–1867), Scottish anatomist |
| John Goodwin (c. 1594–1665), English Nonconformist divine |
| Nathaniel Carl Goodwin (1857–1919), American actor |
| Thomas Goodwin (1600–1680), English Nonconformist divine |
| William Watson Goodwin (1831–1912), American classical scholar |
| Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), American inventor |
| Barnabe Googe (1540–1594), English poet |
| Daniel Gookin (1612–1687), American colonial soldier |
| Gorchakov, noble Russian family |
| Gordian, name of three Roman emperors |
| Gordon, name of a Scottish family |
| Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870), Australian poet |
| Alexander Gordon (c. 1692–c. 1754), Scottish antiquary |
| Charles George Gordon (1833–1885), British soldier and administrator |
| Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), British politician |
| George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), American soldier |
| Sir John Watson Gordon (1788–1864), Scottish painter |
| Judah Leib Gordon (1830–1892), Russian-Jewish poet and novelist (Hebrew) |
| Patrick Gordon (1635–1699), Russian general |
| Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837–1924), Scottish authoress and traveler |
| Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming (1820–1866), Scottish traveller and sportsman |
| Catherine Gore (1799–1861), English novelist and dramatist |
| Charles Gore (1853–1932), English divine |
| Christopher Gore (1758–1827), American lawyer and public man |
| William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920), American army surgeon |
| Sir Ferdinando Gorges (c. 1566–1647), English colonial pioneer in America and the founder of Maine |
| Artúr Görgey (1818–1916), Hungarian soldier |
| Gorgias (c. 483–375 B.C.), Greek sophist and rhetorician |
| George, Lord Goring (1608–1657), English Royalist soldier |
| Maksim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian novelist |
| Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906), American public man |
| Joseph von Görres (1776–1848), German writer |
| Henry Honeychurch Gorringe (1841–1885), American naval officer |
| Antoine-Joseph Gorsas (1752–1793), French publicist and politician |
| Sir John Eldon Gorst (1835–1916), English statesman |
| Samuel Gorton (1592/3–1677), English sectary and founder of the American sect of Gortonites |
| Georg Heinrich von Görtz (1668–1719), Holstein statesman |
| George Joachim Goschen, Viscount Goschen (1831–1907), British statesman |
| Wawrzyniec Goślicki (1533?–1607), Polish Bishop |
| Goslin (d. c. 886), Bishop of Paris and defender of the city against the Northmen |
| Bartholomew Gosnold (d. 1607), English navigator |
| Gospatric (fl. 1067), Earl of Northumberland |
| Sir John Goss (1800–1880), English composer |
| Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), English poet and critic |
| Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), English naturalist |
| François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829), French musical composer |
| Johannes Gossner (1773–1858), German divine and philanthropist |
| Stephen Gosson (1554–1624), English satirist |
| Edmond Got (1822–1901), French actor |
| Gotarzes (d. 51), King of Parthia |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (1746–1797), German poet and dramatist |
| Gottfried von Strassburg (d. c. 1210), one of the chief German poets of the middle ages |
| Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854), Swiss novelist |
| Gottschalk (c. 802–c. 867), German theologian |
| Rudolf von Gottschall (1823–1909), German man of letters |
| Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766), German author and critic |
| Johann Nikolaus Götz (1721–1781), German poet |
| Claude Goudimel (d. 1572), musical composer |
| Henry Goudy (1848–1921), English jurist |
| Gouffier, name of a great French family |
| Guillaume Gouffier, Seigneur de Bonnivet (c. 1488–1525), French soldier |
| Martin Gouge (c. 1360–1444), French chancellor |
| Sir Hubert Gough (1870–1963), British general |
| Hugh, Viscount Gough (1779–1869), British field-marshal |
| John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886), American temperance orator |
| Richard Gough (1735–1809), English antiquary |
| Sir Lomer Gouin (1861–1929), Canadian statesman |
| Claude-Pierre Goujet (1697–1767), French abbé and littérateur |
| Jean Goujon (c. 1520–c. 1566), French sculptor |
| Jean-Marie-Claude-Alexandre Goujon (1766–1795), French publicist and statesman |
| Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), English churchman |
| Henry Goulburn (1784–1856), English statesman |
| Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), American conchologist |
| Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824–1896), American astronomer |
| Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844–1925), English caricaturist and politician |
| Hannah Flagg Gould (1789–1865), American poetess |
| Jay Gould (1836–1892), American financier |
| Charles Gounod (1818–1893), French composer |
| Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud (1867–1946), French general |
| Gaspar, Baron Gourgaud (1783–1852), French soldier |
| Jean Hérault de Gourville (1625–1703), French adventurer |
| Pierre Gouthière (1732–1813), French metal worker |
| Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764–1830), French marshal |
| Niel Gow (1727–1807), Scottish musician |
| John Gower (1325?–1408), English poet |
| John Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie (1578?–1600), Scottish conspirator |
| Francisco Goya (1746–1828), Spanish painter |
| Jan van Goyen (1596–1656), Dutch painter |
| Léon Gozlan (1803–1866), French novelist and playwright |
| Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806), Italian dramatist |
| Gasparo Gozzi (1713–1786), Italian author |
| Benozzo Gozzoli (1420?–1497), Italian painter |
| Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801–1836), German dramatist |
| John Ernest Grabe (1666–1711), Anglican divine |
| The Gracchi, Roman tribunes of the people |
| William Gilbert Grace (1848–1915), English cricketer |
| Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658), Spanish prose writer |
| Henry Woodfin Grady (1851–1889), American journalist |
| Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891), foremost Jewish historian of modern times |
| Johann Georg Graevius (1632–1703), German classical scholar and critic |
| Arturo Graf (1848–1913), Italian poet |
| Karl Heinrich Graf (1815–1869), German Old Testament scholar and orientalist |
| Albrecht von Gräfe (1828–1870), German oculist |
| Heinrich Grafe (1802–1868), German educationist |
| Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe (1787–1840), German surgeon |
| Charles Grafly (1862–1929), American sculptor |
| Dukes of Grafton |
| Richard Grafton (d. 1572?), English printer and chronicler |
| Sir Gerald Graham (1831–1899), British general |
| Sir James Graham (1792–1861), British statesman |
| Sylvester Graham (1794–1851), American dietarian |
| John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee (c. 1649–1689), Scottish soldier |
| Thomas Graham (1805–1869), British chemist |
| James Grahame (1765–1811), Scottish poet |
| James Grahame (1790–1842), Scotch historian |
| James Grainger (1721?–1766), poet and physician |
| Ammonius Grammaticus (Fourth Century), supposed author of a treatise |
| Antoine Agénor Alfred, Duc de Gramont (1819–1880), French diplomatist and statesman |
| Philibert, Comte de Gramont (1621–1707), subject of the famous Memoirs |
| John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721–1770), British soldier |
| Sarah Grand (1854–1943), English novelist |
| Urbain Grandier (1590–1634), French priest |
| Jean-Jacques Grandville (1803–1847), French caricaturist |
| François-Marius Granet (1775–1849), French painter |
| James Granger (1723–1776), English clergyman and print-collector |
| Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac (1806–1880), French journalist |
| Granius Licinianus (Second Century?), annalist |
| Sir Alexander Grant (1826–1884), British scholar and educationalist |
| Anne Grant (M’Vicar) of Laggan (1755–1838), Scottish writer |
| Charles Grant (1746–1823), British politician |
| Sir Francis Grant (1803–1878), English portrait-painter |
| George Monro Grant (1835–1902), Principal of Queen’s University, Canada |
| James Grant (1822–1887), British novelist |
| James Augustus Grant (1827–1892), Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa |
| Sir James Hope Grant (1808–1875), English general |
| Sir Patrick Grant (1804–1895), British field marshal |
| Robert Grant (1814–1892), British astronomer |
| Robert Grant (1852–1940), American lawyer and author |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822–1885), American soldier, and eighteenth President of the United States |
| Thomas Robinson, Lord Grantham (c. 1695–1770), English diplomatist and politician |
| Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley (1716–1789), English politician |
| Antoine Perrenot de Granvella (1517–1586), prince of the church |
| Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville (1815–1891), English statesman |
| Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946), English playwright, producer and actor-manager |
| François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse (1722–1788), French sailor |
| Gratian (359–383), Roman Emperor |
| Gratian (Twelfth Century), compiler |
| Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (1805–1872), French author and theologian |
| Henry Grattan (1746–1820), Irish statesman |
| Grattius Faliscus (First Century B.C.), Roman poet |
| Karl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), German musical composer |
| Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931), Irish writer |
| Gianvincenzo Gravina (1664–1718), Italian littérateur and jurisconsult |
| Asa Gray (1810–1888), American botanist |
| David Gray (1838–1861), Scottish poet |
| Elisha Gray (1835–1901), American electrician |
| Henry Peters Gray (1819–1877), American portrait and genre painter |
| Horace Gray (1828–1902), American jurist |
| John Edward Gray (1800–1875), English naturalist |
| Patrick, Lord Gray (d. 1612), Scottish noble |
| Robert Gray (1809–1872), first Bishop of Cape Town and metropolitan of South Africa |
| Sir Thomas Gray (d. c. 1369), English chronicler |
| Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet |
| Alexander Graydon (1752–1818), American soldier and author |
| Anton Francesco Grazzini (1503–1583), Italian author |
| James Henry Greathead (1844–1896), British engineer |
| John Greaves (1602–1652), English mathematician and antiquary |
| El Greco (1541?–1614), Cretan painter, architect and sculptor |
| Horace Greeley (1811–1872), American statesman and man of letters |
| Adolphus Washington Greely (1844–1935), American soldier |
| Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935), American author |
| Alexander Henry Green (1832–1896), English geologist |
| Duff Green (1791–1875), American politician and journalist |
| Hetty Howland Robinson Green (1835–1916), American capitalist |
| John Richard Green (1837–1883), English historian |
| Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), British authoress |
| Matthew Green (1696–1737), English poet |
| Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882), English philosopher |
| Valentine Green (1739–1813), British engraver |
| William Henry Green (1825–1900), American Hebrew scholar |
| Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), English artist and book illustrator |
| Francis Vinton Greene (1850–1921), American soldier and writer |
| George Sears Greene (1801–1899), American soldier |
| George Washington Greene (1811–1883), American historian |
| Maurice Greene (1696–1755), English musical composer |
| Nathanael Greene (1742–1786), American general |
| Nathaniel Greene (1797–1877), American journalist and author |
| Robert Greene (1558–1592), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| Simon Greenleaf (1783–1853), American jurist |
| George Bellas Greenough (1778–1855), English geologist |
| Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), American sculptor |
| James Bradstreet Greenough (1833–1901), American classical scholar |
| Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), English journalist and man of letters |
| John Greenwood (d. 1593), English Puritan and Separatist |
| William Rathbone Greg (1809–1881), English essayist |
| Andrew Gregg (1755–1835), American statesman |
| David McMurtrie Gregg (1833–1916), American general |
| John Irvin Gregg (1826–1892), American soldier |
| Henri Grégoire (1750–1831), French revolutionist and constitutional Bishop of Blois |
| Samarow Gregor (1829–1903), German novelist |
| Nicephorus Gregoras (1295–1359/60), Byzantine historian |
| Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821–1891), German historian |
| Gregory, name of a Scottish family |
| Gregory, name of sixteen popes and one antipope |
| Lady Gregory (1852–1932), Irish folklorist, playwright and author |
| Saint Gregory (c. 213–c. 270), surnamed Thaumaturgus (the miracle-worker) |
| Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (329–389), one of the four great fathers of the Eastern Church |
| Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335–c. 394), one of the four great fathers of the Eastern Church |
| Saint Gregory of Tours (538–594), historian of the Franks |
| Saint Gregory Palamas (1296–1359), Greek mystic and chief apologist of the Hesychasts |
| Saint Gregory the Illuminator (c. 240–c. 332), reputed founder of the Armenian Church |
| Edward John Gregory (1850–1909), British painter |
| Olinthus Gregory (1774–1841), English mathematician |
| Sir Bevil Grenville (1596–1643), Royalist soldier in the English Civil War |
| George Grenville (1712–1770), English statesman |
| Sir Richard Grenville (c. 1541–1591), British naval commander |
| Sir Richard Grenville (1600–1658), English royalist |
| William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759–1834), English statesman |
| Sir Thomas Gresham (1519?–1579), London merchant, the founder of the Royal Exchange and of Gresham College, London |
| Walter Quintin Gresham (1832–1895), American statesman and jurist |
| Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777), French poet and dramatist |
| André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), French composer |
| Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805), French painter |
| Charles Greville (1794–1865), English diarist |
| Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), English poet |
| Henry Gréville (Alice Durand) (1842–1902), Frenchwoman of letters |
| Jacques Grévin (c. 1539–1570), French dramatist |
| Jules Grévy (1807–1891), President of the French Republic |
| Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712), English vegetable anatomist and physiologist |
| Albert Henry George, Earl Grey (1851–1917), British statesman |
| Charles, Earl Grey (1764–1845), English statesman |
| Sir George Grey (1812–1898), British colonial governor and statesman |
| Henry George, Earl Grey (1802–1894), English statesman |
| Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), lady remarkable no less for her accomplishments than for her misfortunes |
| Edward, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933), English statesman |
| Grey de Wilton and Grey de Ruthyn |
| Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton (1806–1881), English palæontologist |
| Jean-Baptiste de Gribeauval (1715–1789), French artillery general |
| Aleksander Griboyedov (1795–1829), Russian dramatic author |
| Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Norwegian musical composer |
| James Grierson (1859–1914), British general |
| Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745–1812), German biblical critic |
| Peder Griffenfeld (1635–1699), Danish statesman |
| Gerald Griffin (1803–1840), Irish novelist and dramatic writer |
| William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928), American author |
| Sir Richard John Griffith (1784–1878), Irish geologist |
| Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (1845–1920), Australian lawyer and statesman |
| Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), greatest dramatic poet of Austria |
| Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562), English poet |
| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606–1680), Italian architect and painter |
| Joseph Grimaldi (1779–1837), most celebrated of English clowns |
| Sarah Moore (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily (1805–1879) Grimké, American reformers |
| Friedrich Melchior Grimm (1723–1807), French author |
| Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859) Grimm, German philologist and mythologist |
| Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen (1625–1676), German author |
| Philippe-Henri, Comte de Grimoard (1753–1815), French soldier and military writer |
| Sir Harbottle Grimston (1603–1685), English politician |
| Edmund Beckett, Baron Grimthorpe (1816–1905), English lawyer and scholar |
| Edmund Grindal (c. 1519–1583), successively Bishop of London, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Pierre Gringore (c. 1475–1538?), French poet and dramatist |
| Henry Grinnell (1799–1874), American merchant |
| Giulia Grisi (1811–1869), Italian opera-singer |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857), American editor and compiler |
| William Grocyn (1446?–1519), English scholar |
| Wilhelm Groener (1867–1939), German general |
| Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801–1876), Dutch politician and historian |
| Jean Grolier (1479–1565), French bibliophile |
| Karl Wilhelm von Grolmann (1777–1843), Prussian soldier |
| Laurence Gronlund (1846–1899), American socialist |
| Johann Friedrich Gronovius (1611–1671), German classical scholar and critic |
| Gerard Groote (1340–1384), preacher and founder of the society of Brothers of Common Life |
| Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), French painter |
| Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827–1899), Scottish divine and literary editor |
| Francis Grose (c. 1731–1791), English antiquary |
| Julius Grosse (1828–1902), German poet |
| Robert Grosseteste (1175?–1253), English statesman, theologian and Bishop of Lincoln |
| Giovanni Francesco Grossi (1653–1697), one of the greatest Italian singers of the age of bel canto |
| Tommaso Grossi (1791–1853), Lombard poet and novelist |
| George Grossmith (1847–1912), English comedian |
| Weedon Grossmith (1853?–1919), English comedian |
| George Grote (1794–1871), English historian of Greece |
| Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853), German epigraphist |
| Klaus Groth (1819–1899), Low German poet |
| Paul Groth (1843–1927), German mineralogist
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