List of American Places Named After People - G

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• Galesburg, Illinois – George Washington Gale
• Gallatin, Tennessee and other Gallatins – Albert Gallatin
• Galveston, Texas – Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez
• Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
• Garcia, California – Rafael Garcia (land grantee)
• Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)
• Gardiner, New York – Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner
• Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
• Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
• Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
• Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
• Garretson, South Dakota – A.S. Garretson (banker)
• Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
• Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
• Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)
• Gelatt, California – Ethel Gelatt (first postmaster)
• George, Washington – George Washington
• George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
• Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
• Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington
• Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain
• Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain
• Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry
• Gertrude, California – Gertrude Haley (first postmaster)
• Gest, California – Erasmus Gest (railroad official)
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler)
• Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
• Gilchrist County, Florida – Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913.
• Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
• Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
• Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors)
• Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
• Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
• Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
• Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)
• Goecken, California – Herman Bernard Goecken (local rancher)
• Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
• Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham
• Gosford, California – Earl of Gosford
• Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold
• Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)
• Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
• Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)
• Granby, Massachusetts – John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years War)
• Granby, Vermont – Marquis of Granby
• Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
• Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
• Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)
• Greeley, Colorado – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)
• Greenwich, California – Peter D. Greene (founder)
• Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
• Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
• Greenville, Alameda County, California – John Green (early merchant)
• Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
• Grestley, California – James Grestley
• Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
• Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold
• Guernsey, California – James Guernsey (landowner)
• Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
• Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
• Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
• Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)