HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Ged or GED may refer to:


Places

*
Ged, Louisiana Ged is an unincorporated community in Calcasieu Parish, southwestern Louisiana, in the United States. It is located between Ged Lake and the Vinton Drainage Canal, and immediately south of the Vinton Oil Field. Ged's elevation is 10 feet ab ...
, an unincorporated community in the United States * Ged, a village in Bichiwara Tehsil, Dungarpur District, Rajasthan, India *
Delaware Coastal Airport Delaware Coastal Airport is a public use airport in unincorporated Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Owned by the Sussex County Council, it is located two nautical miles (4  km) southeast of the central business district of Ge ...
, in Delaware, US, callsign GED


People

*
Ged Baldwin Gerald William "Ged" Baldwin (January 18, 1907 – December 16, 1991) was a Canadian politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Peace River from 1958 to 1980. He was known as the "Father and Grandfather" of ...
(1907–1991), Canadian politician *
William Ged William Ged (169919 October 1749) was a Scottish goldsmith who has been credited with the invention of stereotyping. However, he was not the first to use the process. Ged was born in Edinburgh, where he carried on business as a goldsmith. In 17 ...
(1699–1749), Scottish goldsmith and inventor *
Ged Peck Ged Peck (19 October 1947 – 10 January 2015) was an English musician who played in several bands - mainly backing work with Billy Fury, Vince Eager, Tommy Quickly when he was managed by Brian Epstein, Americans Bob & Earl who had a hit si ...
(born 1947), English guitarist *
Ged Quinn Ged Quinn (born 1963, Liverpool) is an English artist and musician. He studied at the Ruskin School of Art and St Anne's College in Oxford, the Slade School of Art in London, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Rijksakademie in Amsterd ...
(born 1963), English artist and musician *
Ged Walker Ged or GED may refer to: Places * Ged, Louisiana, an unincorporated community in the United States * Ged, a village in Bichiwara Tehsil, Dungarpur District, Rajasthan, India * Delaware Coastal Airport, in Delaware, US, callsign GED People * G ...
(1960–2003), English police officer *
Ged Maybury Ged Maybury is a children's book author. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1953, spent his childhood in Dunedin, and has been based in Australia since 2002. He has been writing books for children and young adults since 1984. He wa ...
(born 1953), New Zealand author *
Ged Killen Gerard Killen (born 1 May 1986) is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (UK Parliament constituency), Rutherglen and Hamilton ...
(born 1986), Scottish politician *
Ged Nash Gerald Henry Nash (born 7 December 1975) is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since 2020, and previously from 2011 to 2016. Nash became a member of Drogheda Borough Council in 2000 ...
(born 1975), Irish politician


Other uses

*
Ged (Earthsea) Ged is the true name of a fictional character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea realm. He is introduced in ''A Wizard of Earthsea'', and plays both main and supporting roles in the subsequent Earthsea novels. In most of the Earthsea books he goes b ...
, a fictional character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea realm *
Ged (heraldry) A ged is a heraldic term for the fish known in English as a pike. It is often used in " canting" coats; that is, using coats of arms to make a pun on the last name of the bearer, one of his titles, a nickname, or the name of his estate. The word ...
, a term for the fish known in English as a pike * ''Ged'', northern English and Lowland Scots name for the pike fish ''
Esox ''Esox'' is a genus of freshwater fish commonly known as pike or pickerel. It is the type genus of the family (biology), family Esocidae. The type species of the genus is ''Esox lucius'', the northern pike. ''Esox'' have a fossil record exten ...
'' * "G.E.D." (''My Name Is Earl''), a television episode * .ged, a genealogical data format *
Clan Ged Clan Ged is a Scottish clan. The clan does not currently have a chief recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms and is considered an armigerous clan. Without a recognised chief the clan has no standing under Scots Law. In Scotland, the surname ...
, a Scottish clan


Initialisms

*
Gas electron diffraction Gas electron diffraction (GED) is one of the applications of electron diffraction techniques. The target of this method is the determination of the structure of gaseous molecules, i.e., the geometrical arrangement of the atoms from which a molec ...
*
General Educational Development The General Educational Development (GED) tests are a group of four academic subject tests in the United States and its territories certifying academic knowledge equivalent to a high school diploma. This certification is an alternative to the U ...
test, an American and Canadian high school-level exam * Graduated electronic decelerator, a device for administering electric shocks * Graph edit distance, in mathematics {{Disambiguation, given name, geo