George Gordon

George Gordon may refer to:

  • George Croughly Gordon (1850–1899), Scottish amateur international footballer
  • George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), U.S. Army general
  • George Gordon (botanist) (1806–1879), gardener and horticultural writer
  • George Gordon (horticulturalist) (1841–1914), British horticulturalist and writer, winner of the Victoria Medal of Honour
  • George N. Gordon (1822–1861), Protestant missionary to the South Pacific
  • George Newcombe Gordon (1879–1949), Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister
  • George Stuart Gordon (1881–1942), British academic and professor of poetry
  • George Gordon (Canadian politician) (1865–1942), senator from Ontario
  • George Gordon (Civil War General) (1836–1911), Civil War General, Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. Representative from Tennessee
  • George William Gordon (1820–1865), Jamaican politician
  • General Charles George Gordon (1833–1885)
  • George Gordon (animator) (1906–1986), American animator and director of cartoons for TV
  • George Gordon (merchant), colonial American landholder in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
  • George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), British Romantic poet more commonly known as Lord Byron
  • George Phineas Gordon (1821–1878), American inventor, printer and businessman

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Famous quotes by george gordon:

    “Still I can’t contradict, what so oft has been said,
    ‘Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil.’”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
    What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
    To view each loved one blotted from life’s page,
    And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one’s partners in the waltz of this world—not much remembered when the ball is over.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)