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. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: * Gregor (musician) (1898–1971), Armenian bandleader * Gregor Abel (born 1949), Scottish footballer * Gregor Adlercreutz (1898–1944), Swedish equestrian * Gregor Aichinger (c. 1565–1628), German composer * Gregor Amann (born 1962), German politician * Gregor Arbet (born 1983), Estonian basketball player * Gregor Bailar (born 1963), American businessman * Gregor Bajde (born 1994), Slovenian footballer * Gregor Balažic (born 1988), Slovenian footballer * Gregor Baumgartner (born 1979), Austrian ice hockey player * Gregor Becke (born 1972), Austrian canoer * Gregor Belkovsky (1865–1948), Zionist activist * Gregor Benko (born 1944), American music historian * Gregor Bermbach (born 1981), German bobsledder * Gregor Betz (born 1948), German swimmer * Gregor Bialowas (born 1959), Austrian weightlifter *

Gregor Blanco Grégor Miguel Blanco Pedraza (born December 24, 1983) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, and Arizona Diamondbacks. ...

(born 1983), Venezuelan baseball player * Gregor Blatnik (born 1972), Slovenian footballer * Gregor Brandmüller (1661–1691), Swiss painter * Gregor Braun (born 1955), German cyclist *

Gregor Breinburg Gregor Breinburg (born 16 September 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Aruba national team. Club career He formerly played for De Graafschap and joined NEC in 2014. After a s ...

(born 1991), Aruban footballer *

Gregor Brown Gregor Brown (born 1 July 2001) is a Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland international rugby union player for Glasgow Warriors in the United Rugby Championship, URC. Brown's primary position is Lock (rugby union), lock or Flanker (rugb ...

(born 2001), Scottish rugby union player *

Gregor Brück Gregor Brück (1485–1557) was a 16th-century figure of the Reformation, and Saxon Chancellor. He is also known by his latinised name Gregorius Pontanus. His role in the early 16th century in Germany, as legal advisor to Martin Luther, may ...

(1483–1557), German figure of the Reformation, and Saxon Chancellor *

Gregor Buchanan Gregor Buchanan (born 31 March 1990) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a defender for club Stenhousemuir where he is the club's captain. After progressing through Falkirk's youth academy, Buchanan played for Scottish Junior clubs Armada ...

(born 1990), Scottish footballer *

Gregor Cailliet Gregor Michel Cailliet is an American scientist who studies the ecology of marine fishes. He is professor emeritus at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, part of The California State University, having officially retired in 2009. Education and c ...

, American scientist *

Gregor Cameron Gregor Ewen Cameron (born 11 January 1964) is a former New Zealand athlete who represented his country at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. Early life and family Cameron was born in Dunedin on 11 January 1964, the son of Linda and Clive Cameron, an ...

(born 1964), New Zealand athlete *

Gregor Cankar Gregor Cankar (born 25 January 1975 in Celje) is a Slovenian track and field athlete competing in long jump who won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. He finished sixth at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer ...

(born 1975), Slovenian long jumper *

Gregor Chatsatourian Gregor Chatsatourian (born 19 April 1977) is a Greek handball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as At ...

(born 1977), Greek handball player *

Gregor Clemens Gregor Clemens (born 26 June 1982 in Leipzig, Germany) is a fashion designer and designer of jewellery. Clemens grew up as the son of information technology specialist Eberhard Clemens and his wife Sylvia Clemens. After finishing grammar school ...

(born 1982), German fashion designer *

Gregor Collins Gregor Collins is an American author, speaker, producer and former actor, most known for writing '' The Accidental Caregiver'', a memoir about the three years he spent with Maria Altmann. Career Collins moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue a ...

(born 1976), American actor, writer and producer * Gregor Croudis (born 1993), New Zealand cricketer * Gregor Cvijič (born 1972), Slovenian handball player * Gregor Deschwanden (born 1991), Swiss ski jumper * Gregor Dorfmeister (1929–2018), German writer * Gregor Duncan (artist) (1910–1944), American illustrator * Gregor Duncan (bishop) (born 1950), Scottish Episcopalian bishops *

Gregor Ebner Gregor Ebner (24 June 1892 – 22 March 1974) was a medical doctor from Kirchseeon near Munich. During the time of Nazi Germany he served as the medical leader of all the Lebensborn Homes. Life Ebner was born in Ichenhausen to Gregor Ebner, a ...

(1892–1974), German military doctor * Gregor Edelmann (born 1954), German journalist and screenwriter * Gregor Edmunds (born 1977), Scottish athlete * Gregor Erhart, German sculptor * Gregor Ewan (born 1971), Scottish wheelchair curler * Gregor Fink (born 1984), Slovenian footballer * Gregor Fisher (born 1953), Scottish comedian and actor * Gregor Fisken (born 1964), British racing driver * Gregor Foitek (born 1965), Swiss racing driver * Gregor Fučka (born 1971), Slovenian-Italian basketball player and coach * Gregor Gall (born 1967), British academic * Gregor Gazvoda (born 1981), Slovenian cyclist * Gregor George, Australian rugby union player * Gregor Gillespie (born 1987), American mixed martial artist * Gregor Glas (born 2001), Slovenian basketball player * Gregor Golobič (born 1964), Slovenian politician * Gregor Grant (born 1911), British writer * Gregor Grilc (born 1970), Slovenian alpine skier *

Gregor Gysi Gregor Florian Gysi (; born 16 January 1948) is a German attorney, former president of the Party of the European Left and a prominent politician of The Left () political party. He belonged to the reformist wing of the governing Socialist Unity ...

(born 1948), German politician * Gregor Hagedorn (born 1965), German botanist * Gregor Haloander (1501–1531), German legal scholar *

Gregor Hammerl Gregor Hammerl (8 June 1942 – 1 November 2023) was an Austrian politician who was President of the Federal Council of Austria in 2012. Life and career Gregor Hammerl was born on 8 April 1942. From 1986 to 1987, Hammerl was an organization off ...

(born 1942), Austrian politician * Gregor Hasler, Swiss psychiatrist * Gregor Hauffe (born 1982), German rower * Gregor Hayter (born 1976), Scottish rugby union player * Gregor Helfenstein (1559–1632), Roman Catholic prelate * Gregor Henderson, Australian Christian minister * Gregor Herzfeld (born 1975), German musicologist * Gregor Hildebrandt (born 1974), German contemporary artist * Gregor Jordan (born 1966), Australian film director * Gregor Mackintosh, lead guitarist and main composer of English doom metal band Paradise Lost * Gregor McGregor (1848–1914), Australian politician *

Gregor Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel Order of Saint Augustine, OSA (; ; ; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinians, Augustinian friar and abbot of St Thomas's Abbey, Brno, St. Thom ...

(1822–1884), scientist, father of genetics * Gregor Mühlberger (born 1994), Austrian cyclist * Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1790–1861), German classical scholar *

Gregor Piatigorsky Gregor Piatigorsky (, ''Grigoriy Pavlovich Pyatigorskiy''; August 6, 1976) was a Russian-born American cello, cellist. Biography Early life Gregor Piatigorsky was born in Dnipro, Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. As a c ...

(1903–1976), Russian-born American cellist * Gregor Schlierenzauer (born 1990), Austrian ski jumper * Gregor Strasser (1892–1934), German Nazi Party official and politician * Gregor Townsend (born 1973), Scottish rugby union player and coach * Gregor Urbas (born 1982), Slovenian figure skater * Gregor Verbinski (born 1964), American film director, also known as Gore Verbinski * Gregor Virant (born 1969), Slovenian politician * Gregor Weiss (born 1941), American artistic gymnast * Gregor Wenning (born 1964), German neurologist * Gregor Wentzel (1898–1978), German physicist * Gregor Werner (1693–1766), Austrian classical composer * Gregor Widholm (born 1948), Austrian academic and musician * Gregor Willmes (born 1966), German musicologist * Gregor W. Yeates (1944–2012), New Zealand scientist * Gregor Young (born 1966), Canadian soccer player and coach

Fictional characters

Gregor Clegane Gregor Clegane, nicknamed "The Mountain That Rides" or simply "The Mountain", is a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation ''Game of Th ...

, nicknamed "The Mountain", a character in George R.R. Martin's ''

A Song of Ice and Fire ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of high fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the first volume, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and published it in 1996. Martin, who originally envisioned the ser ...

'' and its television adaptation ''

Game of Thrones ''Game of Thrones'' is an American Fantasy television, fantasy Drama (film and television), drama television series created by David Benioff and for HBO. It is an adaptation of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of high fantasy novels by ...

'' * Gregor Samsa, main character of Franz Kafka's ''

The Metamorphosis ''The Metamorphosis'' (), also translated as ''The Transformation'', is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, ''The Metamorphosis'' tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes to find himself inex ...

'' * King Gregor Markov, a supporting character in DC Comics' '' Young Justices third season * Gregor, a beetle-shaped demon in the novel '' Slawter'' * Gregor, the protagonist of ''

The Underland Chronicles ''The Underland Chronicles'' is a series of five high fantasy, epic fantasy novels by Suzanne Collins, first published between 2003 and 2007. It tells the story of a boy named Gregor and his adventures in the "Underland", a subterranean world l ...

'' * Gregor, the slave name given to Severin by Wanda in the '' Leopold von Sacher-Masoch'' novel '' Venus In Furs'' * Gregor, one of the 12 playable characters in

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who is based on Gregor Samsa.

Fictional characters

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