George Wright
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Politics, law and government
- George Wright (governor)George Wright (governor)George Wright was a businessman, judge and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He served as colonial administrator for the colony in 1825, in 1834, from 1835 to 1836, in 1837 and in 1841....
(1779–1842), Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island - George Wright (jurist)George Wright (jurist)The Hon. Justice George Wright was a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. -Biograpghy:Wright was born in Adelaide, South Australia, where his father, The Reverend Dr George H Wright, was minister off the Stow Memorial Congregational Church...
, Australian judge, Old Newingtonian - George Wright (lawyer)George Wright (lawyer)George Wright was an Irish lawyer and judge.Wright was a native of Clonakilty, County Cork, where his father and brothers practiced as solicitors; he married Mary Barrington in 1881. He served as Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1900 to 1903 in the Unionist government headed by Lord Salisbury...
(1847–1913), Solicitor General for Ireland - George F. WrightGeorge F. WrightGeorge Fred Wright was Mayor of Honolulu from 1931 to 1938. Wright, a native of Honolulu, worked as a surveyor. He died in office in 1938 while traveling aboard the SS Mariposa. Memorials to him were installed at a downtown housing project and at Washington Middle School in the Pawaa section of...
(1881–1938), American politician, Mayor of Honolulu - George G. WrightGeorge G. WrightGeorge Grover Wright was a pioneer lawyer, Iowa Supreme Court justice, law professor, and Republican United States Senator from Iowa....
(1820–1896), United States Senator from Iowa - George Melendez WrightGeorge Melendez WrightGeorge Melendez Wright was an American biologist who conducted the first scientific survey of fauna for the National Park Service. He was born in San Francisco, California. Wright's Salvadoran mother Mercedes Melendez Wright was born in San Salvador, and was from one of El Salvador's most...
(1904–1936), American biologist, National Park Service - George Washington WrightGeorge Washington WrightGeorge Washington Wright was a Californian politician. He was the leading vote getter in a November 1849 at-large election for California's first two Representatives in the 31st United States Congress serving from September 11, 1850, to March 3, 1851.-External links:...
(1816–1885), United States congressman from California
Sports
- George Wright (sportsman) (1847–1937), American baseball player/manager, also active in golf and tennis
- George Wright (footballer)George Wright (footballer)George Wright was an English footballer who played as a full-back.Wright was born in Ramsgate, Kent and began his career at Ramsgate Athletic and played for Margate before joining West Ham United in 1951....
(1930–2000), English footballer - George Wright (New Zealand footballer)George Wright (New Zealand footballer)George Wright is a former football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Wright made a single appearance in an official international for the All Whites in a 1-4 loss to Australia on 18 July 1936.-External links:...
, New Zealand international football (soccer) player - George Wright (outfielder)George Wright (outfielder)George De Witt Wright , is a retired professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in the Major Leagues from -. He played for the Texas Rangers and Montreal Expos. In 1983 he had a career year with a surprising Texas Rangers club that was in first place at the all-star break...
(born 1958), American baseball player - George Wright (athlete), Canadian triple jumper, 1988 OlympianCanada at the 1988 Summer OlympicsCanada competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. 328 competitors, 223 men and 105 women, took part in 193 events in 23 sports. Most Canadians remember this as being the Olympics where Ben Johnson apparently won the gold medal and set a world record in the men's 100 metres, and then was...
- Bert Wright (footballer)Bert Wright (footballer)George Albert Wright is an English former footballer.-Playing career:Wright played for Cardiff City and also guested for both Stoke City and Port Vale during the war. He made fifteen guest appearances for Vale between August and December 1944 and also made a guest appearance in March 1946...
(born 1920), English soccer player
Others
- George Wright (bishop) (1873–1956), Anglican bishop
- George Wright (general)George Wright (general)George Wright was an American soldier who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
(1803–1865), American general - George Wright (organist)George Wright (organist)George Wright was an American musician, possibly the most famous virtuoso of the theatre organ of the modern era....
(1920–1998), American organist - George Caleb WrightGeorge Caleb WrightGeorge Caleb Wright, AIA, was an American architect active from in early to mid-twentieth-century Indiana. He was a partner in the locally renowned Indianapolis, Indiana architectural firms of Pierre & Wright, Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager , and Wright, Porteous & Lowe, and was later chief building...
(born 1889), American architect - George Ernest Wright (1909–1974), American biblical scholar & archaeologist
- George Frederick WrightGeorge Frederick WrightGeorge Frederick Wright was an American geologist and a professor at Oberlin Theological Seminary, first of New Testament language and literature , and then of "harmony of science and revelation" . He wrote prolifically, publishing works in geology, history, and theology...
(1838–1921), American geologist and professor - George Hand WrightGeorge Hand WrightGeorge Hand Wright was an American painter, illustrator and printmaker.Born in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a blacksmith, he attended the Spring Garden Institute, a local technical school, and was apprenticed to a lithographer...
(1872–1951), American painter, illustrator and printmaker - George Newenham WrightGeorge Newenham WrightGeorge Newenham Wright, , was an Irish writer and Anglican clergyman. He was born in Dublin; his father, John Thomas was a doctor. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1814 and M.A. in 1817...
(c. 1790–1877), Anglo-Irish author and Anglican clergyman - George Wright (fugitive)George Wright (fugitive)George Edward Wright is a Portuguese citizen of American originwho, in 1961, graduated from Mary Bethune High School in Halifax, Virginia.Originally arrested and convicted for murder in 1962 and sentenced to up to 30 years in prison,...
(b. ca. 1943), American criminal, alleged hijacker of Delta Air Lines Flight 841Delta Air Lines Flight 841- Hijacking :Delta Air Lines Flight 841 was an aircraft hijacking that took place beginning on Monday, July 31, 1972, on a flight originally from Detroit to Miami....
in 1972