Famous People with Name Georges

Georges Bénézé            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Bénézé: was a French philosopher. Bénézé was a disciple and editor of Alain. He taught Hegel to Jean Hippolyte at the lycée in Poitiers.[1]

Georges Canguilhem            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Canguilhem: was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science (in particular, biology). He took up a post at the Clermont-Ferrand basedUniversity of Strasbourg in 1941, and received his medical doctorate in 1943, in the middle of World War II. Using the pseudonym "Lafont" Canguilhem became active in the French Resistance, serving as a doctor in Auvergne.

Georges Chapouthier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Chapouthier: is a French neuroscientist and philosopher. Georges Chapouthier is the son of Odette Mazaubert and Fernand Chapouthier (1899-1953). Fernand Chapouthier was a classicist and archeologist who was deputy director of the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris. Odette Mazaubert was known under the pseudonym of "Carquelin" for her Saintongeais writings.

Georges Politzer            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Politzer: was a French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" (philosophe roux). He was a native of Oradea, a city in present-day Romania.

Georges Vedel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Vedel: was a French public law professor from Auch, France. Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in France].” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies. He was a published author, having written manuals on constitutional and regulatory law, publications which both left their mark on generations of French legal experts. Vedel was most well known for his theory of the constitutional bases present in regulatory law, a theory that united the field of public law in France.

George Georges            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

George Georges: was a Labor senator for Queensland, Australia from 1968 to 1986. From 15 December 1986 he was an independent after quitting the ALP. He was defeated at the 1987 election. Georges was a humanist and socialist who was jailed several times by the Joh Bjelke-