The character Gil Grissom in the CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the character Virgil Tracy in the British television series Thunderbirds are named after the astronaut.

Gil Grissom on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV show is an entomologist, who is played by actor William Petersen.

* Gil Grissom, character on American TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, played by actor William Petersen

For television, the actor portrayed a character who temporarily replaces Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen, in the CBS show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, during the 2006 – 2007 season.

On August 18, 2008, it was reported that Laurence Fishburne would join the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation after William Petersen ( aka Gil Grissom ) left the series.

Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen, finds a unique combination of medications on the leather gloves which Goodson had discarded at the murder location figuring that they could never be traced back to her.

The Season 9 premiere revealed Dourdan's character dying in the arms of his colleague and friend Gil Grissom.

William Louis Petersen ( born February 21, 1953 ) is an American actor and producer, best known for playing Dr. Gilbert " Gil " Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Richard Chance in the film To Live and Die in L. A., and as Will Graham in the film Manhunter.

* In the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode 1x11, Gil Grissom was seen to own a Big Mouth Billy Bass placed above his office door because its motion sensor was better than a watch dog.

" His repertoire also included impressions of celebrities and well-known figures, including Al Gore, Bob Barker, John Kerry, Dr. Phil, Bill O ' Reilly, Maury Povich, Chris Martin, Steve Jobs, Mel Gibson, Chris Hansen, Roy Horn, Ozzy Osbourne, John Ramsey, Freddie Prinze, Jr., J. K. Simmons ( as Mac McGuff, Juno's father ), William Petersen ( as Gil Grissom ), Jack Coleman ( as Noah Bennet ), Hugh Laurie ( as Gregory House ), Hugh Beaumont ( as Ward Cleaver ), Sarah Jessica Parker ( as Carrie Bradshaw ), Dr. Drew, Adam Sandler, Howie Mandel, Dick Cheney, Clint Eastwood, Gray Davis, Simon Cowell, JC Chasez, Bruce Jenner, Michael Richards, Chris Burke, Charlie Sheen ( as Charlie Harper ( Two and a Half Men )), David Schwimmer ( as Ross Geller ), Jeff Probst, Tim Gunn ( Project Runway ), Howard K. Stern, Tommy Lee, Bob Goen, Criss Angel, Jeff Foxworthy, Saddam Hussein, Matthew Good, Daniel Powter, Larry David, Barry Gibb, Eddie Vedder, and Brad Garrett.

** William Petersen – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Gil Grissom

* Lennie Briscoe was ranked # 9 on America's Top Sleuths between Sherlock Holmes at # 10 and Gil Grissom of CSI at # 8.

Dr. Gilbert " Gil " Grissom, ( Ph. D .) is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by William Petersen.

Zuiker originally named the character Gil Sheinbaum, but after he became part of the cast, William Petersen requested the name to be changed, Petersen and Zuiker decided to rename the character " Grissom ", after astronaut Gus Grissom, of whom Petersen was a great admirer.

Gil Grissom has a more than passing similarity to Sherlock Holmes.

Of more than twenty-five-thousand fan fictions written about CSI on FanFiction. Net, more than half include Gil Grissom.

Gilbert " Gil " Grissom was born on August 17, 1956, as an only child to a middle-class family in Santa Monica, California.

* Gil Grissom at the Unofficial CSI Wiki

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Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

Fairchild's effort, led by ex-Bell researcher Gil Amelio, was the first with commercial devices, and by 1974 had a linear 500-element device and a 2-D 100 x 100 pixel device.

Gil Eanes, the commander of one of Henry's expeditions, became the first European known to pass Cape Bojador in 1434.

However, there are notable exceptions in the Gil the ARM stories ; and Jigsaw Man first appeared in Harlan Ellison's landmark " new wave " anthology, Dangerous Visions.

The first known cultivation of opium poppies was in Mesopotamia, approximately 3400 BCE, by Sumerians who called the plant Hul Gil, the " joy plant.

Leading opposition batsman Everton Weekes, edged Benaud in his first over, but Gil Langley dropped the catch.

Carol Burnett first rose to prominence in the 1950s singing a novelty song, " I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles "; more recently, Gil Scott Heron commented " John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now " in the song " B-Movie.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

She has two brothers, a sister and three half-sisters by her father's first wife Marta López Gil.

* The frontier area Deerfield is the first home of the fictitious Gilbert ( Gil ) Martin in Walter D. Edmunds novel, Drums along the Mohawk ( 1936 ), covering the period 1776-1784.

The council had its first meeting on November 24 and selected Gilbert " Gil " Geiser ( 1919 – 1997 ), a 35-year-old hardware store owner, as Mountlake Terrace's first mayor.

The house where Senna spent the first four years of his life belonged to João Senna, Neide's father, and was located on the corner of Av Aviator Gilherme with Gil Santos Dumont Avenue, less than 100 meters from Field Mars, a large area where they operated the Aeronautics Material park and an airport.

1175 ) ( daughter of Gil Vasques de Soverosa and first wife Maria Aires de Fornelos ):

Gil started to play music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band.

As an accordionist, Gil first played classical music, but grew more interested in the folk and popular music of Brazil.

He composed four songs during his imprisonment, among them " Cérebro Electrônico " ( Electronic Brain ), which first appeared on his 1969 album Gilberto Gil 1969, and later on his 2006 album Gil Luminoso.

During his first years as a musician, Gil performed primarily in a blend of traditional Brazilian styles with two-step rhythms, such as baião and samba.

Gil Shaham and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra recorded The Four Seasons as well as a music video for the first movement of " Winter " that was featured regularly on The Weather Channel in the mid-1990s.

* Teresa Sánchez, who married Dom João Afonso de Menezes ( died 5 May 1304 ), 1st Conde de Barcelos in Portugal, the first Portuguese hereditary Count, 4th Lord of Alburquerque in Castille and 29th Mordomo-Mór of Portugal, and had female issue, and Rui Gil de Vilalobos, and had female issue

While on the field, he doubled Gil McDougald off first after a sensational catch and relay throw in left field by Sandy Amoros to help preserve the victory.

In August 1984, Forrest J. Ackerman was contending that he was the editor, with Gil Lamont working for the distributor as first reader only.

It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas and published in novel form by Charpentier in 1883.