George Gordon may refer to:

By career

Military

George Henry Gordon George Henry Gordon (July 19, 1823 – August 30, 1886) was an American lawyer and a Union Army, Union general in the American Civil War. Early life Gordon was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, at the ...

(1823–1886), U.S. Army general *

George Gordon (Civil War general) George Washington Gordon (October 5, 1836 – August 9, 1911) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he practiced law in Pulaski, Tennessee, where the Ku Klux Klan was formed. He became o ...

(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 George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorg ...

, commissioner for

Aberdeen (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Aberdeen was a burgh constituency that elected one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates. After the Acts of Union 1707, Aberdeen, Arbroath, Brechin, Inverbervie and Montrose formed the Aberdeen district of ...

*Sir

George Gordon (died 1690) 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 Go ...

, commissioner for

Banffshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Banffshire was a constituency represented in the Parliament of Scotland until 1707. Shire Commissioners References

* * {{Authority control Politics of the county of Banff Constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland (to 1707) 1593 est ...

* George Gordon (died 1691), burgh commissioner for Dornoch (Parliament of Scotland constituency) *

Lord George Gordon Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 1 November 1793) was a British nobleman and politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780. An eccentric and flighty personality, he was born into the Peerage of Scotland, Scottis ...

(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 George William Gordon (c. 1820 – 23 October 1865) was a Jamaican businessman, magistrate and politician, one of two representatives to the Assembly from St. Thomas-in-the-East parish. He was a leading critic of the colonial government and ...

(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 George John Robert Gordon (4 March 1812 – 2 October 1902) was a British diplomat in South America and Europe who attracted attention in the 1870s for his marital situation. He also played a role in introducing the mediaeval song collection ''Pia ...

(1812−1902), British diplomat

Religious figures

George N. Gordon George Nicol Gordon (April 21, 1822 – May 20, 1861) was a Protestant Canadian missionary to the Pacific Islands. Due to the murder of Gordon and his wife, Ellen (1833 - May 20, 1861), they are considered by many to be martyrs of modern times ...

(1822–1861), Protestant missionary to the South Pacific *

George Gordon (priest) George Gordon (1760–1845) was an English Anglican priest, Dean of Exeter between 1809 and 1810; and of Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathe ...

(1760–1845), Dean of Exeter and of Lincoln

Sciences

George Gordon (botanist) George Gordon (1806–1879) was a British botanist. He worked for the London Horticultural Society as Foreman of the Horticultural Society Gardens at Chiswick, near London. Gordon is particularly noted for his work on conifers, publishing ''Th ...

(1806–1879), gardener and horticultural writer *

George Gordon (horticulturalist) 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 Go ...

(1841–1914), British horticulturalist and writer, awarded the

Victoria Medal of Honour The Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH) is awarded to British horticulturists resident in the United Kingdom whom the Royal Horticultural Society Council considers deserving of special honour by the Society. The award was established in 1897 "in per ...

George Gordon (engineer) George Gordon (1829 – 25 February 1907) was a Scottish born engineer who was prominent in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century.

(1881–1942), British academic and professor of poetry *

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...

(1788–1824), British Romantic poet more commonly known as Lord Byron

Others

George Gordon (animator) George Gordon (September 2, 1906 – May 24, 1986) was an American film and TV animator and director of animated productions. Starting in film in 1930, he moved to TV in its early days. Gordon is credited with hundreds of cartoons from 1937 th ...

(1906–1986), American animator and director of cartoons for TV * George Gordon (entrepreneur) (1818-1869), British-American developer and industrialist in early San Francisco *

George Gordon (scenic artist) 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 Go ...

(c. 1839–1899), in England and Australia *

George Gordon (merchant) George Gordon was a Scottish merchant and wealthy landowner who owned the Gordon's Rock Creek Plantation on land that eventually became part of Washington, D.C. In the 1740s, Gordon built an inspection house for tobacco on the plantation. Knave ...

(circa mid-18th century), colonial American landholder *

George Stanley Gordon George Stanley Gordon (November 19, 1926 – April 22, 2013) was an American advertising executive who founded the famed Gordon and Shortt Advertising Agency. Gordon approached famed artist Alexander Calder and brought him to Braniff Internationa ...

(1926–2013), American advertising executive

By family

Members of the Scottish Clan Gordon

George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly (died 8 June 1501) was a Scottish nobleman and Chancellor of Scotland from 1498 to 1501. Life George was the son of Alexander (Seton) Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly and his second wife Elizabeth Crichton, daughter ...

(before 1455–1501), Chancellor of Scotland, 1498–1501 *

George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (151428 October 1562) was a Scottish nobleman. Life He was the son of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and Margaret Stewart, daughter of James IV and Margaret Drummond. George Gordon inherited his earldom and esta ...

(1514–1562), Scottish nobleman *

George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly (died 19 October 1576), was Lord Chancellor of Scotland and major conspirator of his time. Biography The second son of the 4th Earl, George Gordon was the Sheriff of Inverness from 1556. As Captain of Badenoch, ...

(died 1576), Lord Chancellor of Scotland *

George Gordon (bishop) George Gordon (died 1588) was a 16th-century Scottish prelate. Life He was the son of Alexander Gordon, Bishop of Galloway, and the brother of John Gordon, also Bishop of Galloway. He was a cousin of the Earls of Huntly, being the great-gran ...

(died 1588), bishop of Galloway *

George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (156213 June 1636) was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in the political and military life of Scotland in the late 16th century, and around the time of the Union of the Crowns. Biography The son ...

(1562–1636), Scottish nobleman *

George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly (c. 1592March 1649), styled Earl of Enzie from 1599 to 1636, eldest son of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly by Lady Henrietta Stewart, daughter of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, born at Huntly Cast ...

(1592–1649) *

George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland (2 November 1633 – 4 March 1703) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the eldest surviving son of John Gordon, 14th Earl of Sutherland, and his first wife Lady Jean Drummond, daughter of James Drummond, ...

(1633–1703), Scottish nobleman *

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (3 October 163720 April 1720), was a List of Lord Chancellors of Scotland, Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Early life Gordon, born on 3 October 1637, the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Abe ...

(1637–1720), Lord Chancellor of Scotland *

George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Gior ...

(1643–1716), Scottish peer *

George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen (19 June 1722 – 13 August 1801), styled Lord Haddo until 1745, was a Scottish peer. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer from 1747 to 1761, and from 1774 to 1790. He was against Will ...

(1722–1801), Scottish peer *

George Gordon of Gight George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...

(1741–1779), maternal grandfather of poet George Gordon Byron *

(1751–1793), politician, leader of Gordon riots *

George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly, (28 June 1761 – 17 June 1853), styled Lord Strathavon until 1795 and Earl of Aboyne from 1795 to 1836, was a Scotland, Scottish peer and soldier. Early life George was the son of Charles Gordon, 4th Ear ...

(1761–1853), Scottish peer *

George Gordon, Lord Haddo George Gordon, Lord Haddo (28 January 1764 – 2 October 1791) was a Scottish Freemason and the eldest son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen. On 18 June 1782, Haddo married Charlotte Baird (d. 8 October 1795) a sister of Sir David Baird, ...

(1764–1791) *

George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon General George Duncan Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, (2 February 1770 – 28 May 1836), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1827, was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician and the last of his line. Early life George was born at Edinburgh on 2 ...

(1770–1836), Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician *

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (28 January 178414 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in f ...

(1784–1860), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom *

George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen George John James Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen (28 September 1816 – 22 March 1864), styled Lord Haddo before 1860, was a British peer and Liberal Party politician. Early life Lord Haddo was born at Bentley Priory in Hertfordshi ...

(1816–1864), British peer and Liberal Party politician * George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen (1841–1870), Scottish peer and sailor *

George Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore George Arthur Maurice Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore (3 January 1871 – 13 April 1957), was a British Liberal politician. Biography Stanmore was the only son of Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, youngest son of Prime Minister Ge ...

(1871–1957), British Liberal politician *

George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (20 January 1879 – 6 January 1965), styled Lord Haddo until 1916 and Earl of Haddo from 1916–34, was a Scottish peer and politician. He was Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire from 1934–59. ...

(1879–1965), 8th Earl of Aberdeen * George Ian Alastair Gordon, 8th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (born 1983)