The Dorris Motor Car Company was founded by George Preston Dorris in 1906.

St. Louis Motor Carriage Company was a manufacturer of automobiles at 1211 – 13 North Vandeventer Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri founded by George Preston Dorris ( later credited with developing and patenting the float-carburetor ) and John French in 1898, with French taking charge of marketing and Dorris heading engineering and production.

He brought one of the first automobiles into Texas, " a two-cylinder St. Louis Gas Car surrey, designed by George Norris-the correct name is Dorris ", and is reputed to have been involved in the first car accident in the state, when the car was forced off the road into a ditch by a farm wagon in October 1899 in Forney, Texas.

A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.

He worked with George L. Stout, the founder and first editor of Technical Studies.

The Dalhousie seal is based on the heraldic achievement of the Clan Ramsay of Scotland, largely because the founder of the university, the George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie was the head of the clan.

John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the primary exponents of empiricism in the 18th century Enlightenment, with Locke being the person who is normally known as the founder of empiricism as such.

Other influential conservationists of the Progressive Era included George Bird Grinnell ( a prominent sportsmen who founded the Boone and Crockett Club ), the Izaak Walton League and John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club in 1892.

In 1919, Hubble was offered a staff position in California by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, where he remained on the staff until his death.

Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.

George Fox ( July 1624 – 13 January 1691 ) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.

His father was Albert the Brave of Saxony, founder of the Albertine line of the Wettin family, his mother was Sidonie, daughter of George Podiebrad, King of Bohemia.

The grave of Princess Yourievsky ( 1878-1959 ) who was a member of the ill-fated Russian Royal family and who lived in North Hayling for many years, may be found in St. Peter's churchyard ; and the grave of Scotsman George Glas Sandeman, nephew of the founder of Sandeman Port and second head of that company, is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.

Johann Georg Rapp ( November 1, 1757 – August 7, 1847 ), also known as George Rapp, was the founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the Harmony Society.

The Kuomintang founder Sun Yat-sen, was heavily influenced by the economic ideas of Henry George, who believed that the rents extracted from natural monopolies or the usage of land belonged to the public.

Caron married George Hormel III, a grandson of the founder of Hormel ( a meat-packing company ) in September 1951.

A plaque of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, in Building 6.

* 1821 – George Williams, English founder of the YMCA ( d. 1905 )

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

* George Safford Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company, 1882

Fluxus founder George Maciunas, a friend of Ono's during the 1960s, admired her work and promoted it with enthusiasm.

* July – George Fox, English founder of the Quakers ( d. 1691 )

* March 14 – George Eastman, founder of Kodak, commits suicide.

* March 10 – George Müller, Prussian evangelist and founder of the Ashley Down orphanage ( b. 1805 )

* January 13 – George Fox, English founder of the Society of Friends ( b. 1624 )

* George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore of England ( 1579 – 1632 ), nobleman, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State, and English colonizer of the North America ( most notably the founder of the Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and future founder of Maryland )

* September 27 – George Müller, Prussian evangelist and founder of the Ashley Down orphanage ( d. 1898 )

A customized 1969 American Motors AMX was built by George Barris for the second regular season episode.

Piedmont is home to a number of notable individuals in the political, business, sports, and academic communities, including: ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty ; ex-National Football League player Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers ; ex-National Football League player Bill Romanowski ; Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich ; Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up and co-writer of WALL-E ; Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock band Green Day ; Eric Whitaker, GC of Tesla Motors ; Thomas Horn, actor ; and Dr. George Rutherford, State Health Officer. Also Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel show " Gravity Falls " was born here.

George W. Mason was the architect of the merger to reap benefits from the strengths of the two firms to battle the much larger " Big Three " automakers ( General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler ).

Nash president George Mason thus proposed that the four major independents ( Nash, Hudson, Packard, and Studebaker ) all merge into one large outfit to be named American Motors Corporation.

* George W. Romney ( 1907 – 1995 ), CEO of American Motors, Governor of Michigan, U. S. presidential candidate, father of Mitt Romney

AMC's President George W. Romney came to the conclusion that the only way to compete with the " Big Three " ( General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler ) was to stake the future of AMC on a new smaller-sized car line.

In 1949, Healey established an agreement with George W. Mason, the president of Nash Motors to build Nash-engined Healey sports cars.

** George W. Romney ( 1907 – 1995 ), former CEO of American Motors, Governor of Michigan, and U. S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and father of Mitt Romney

Kell served ten years on the Arkansas State Highway Commission ( 1973 – 83 ) and owned a car dealership, George Kell Motors, in Newport.

In 1962, Swainson was defeated by Republican George W. Romney, the chairman of the American Motors Corporation and who had never before held elected office.

Singer Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturer, founded by George Singer in 1874 as a bicycle manufacturer in Coventry, England.

Once both companies stabilized their balance sheets and strengthened their product line, the original plan devised by Packard president James J. Nance and Nash-Kelvinator Corporation president George W. Mason was that the combined Studebaker-Packard company would join a combined Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company in an all-new four-marque American Motors Corporation.

George Richard " Rick " Wagoner, Jr. ( born February 9, 1953 ) is an American businessman and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors.

George Short owned the blacksmith shop there where today Roy Nichols Motors sits.