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 first appears in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on the pilot episode.

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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Since 30 June 2007, the island's governor has been Eustaquio Juan Santana Gil.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Gil Scott-Heron, a jazz poet / musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ", " H2OGate Blues Part 2: We Beg Your Pardon America ," and " Johannesberg ," has been cited as an influence on many rappers.

She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi, as well as Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, The Chieftains, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Mino Cinelu, Jeff Bova, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as yanokami, and her daughter Miu Sakamoto.

Gil has replied that Riau Indonesian has a simpler grammar than Saramaccan, the language McWhorter uses as a showcase for his theory.

She has four other siblings from her father's two other marriages: Romano ( died at age 9 ), Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella.

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

Gaye's music has been covered a variety of different artists including James Taylor, Brian McKnight, Chico DeBarge, Michael McDonald, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Aaliyah, A Perfect Circle, The Strokes and Gil Scott-Heron.

Gil has noted that he grew to identify with Gonzaga " because he sang about the world around, the world that encountered.

Gil has since asserted that " You've now got young people who are becoming designers, who are making it into media and being used more and more by television and samba schools and revitalizing degraded neighborhoods.

" Gil has also expressed interest in a program that will establish an Internet repository of freely downloadable Brazilian music.

Gil has been married four times.

Gil has been open about the fact that he has smoked marijuana for much of his life.

Gil has been criticized for a conflicting involvement in both authentic Brazilian music and the worldwide musical arena.

There has been controversy over the fact that Gil Hodges has not been elected to membership in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

He has also worked with the jazz composers Carla Bley and Gil Evans.

Although the Thornhill band was originally a sophisticated dance band, it became known for its many superior jazz musicians and for Thornhill's and Gil Evans ' innovative arrangements ; its " Portrait of a Guinea Farm " has become a classic jazz recording.

Recently she has been known for her role as Gil Ra Im in Secret Garden ( TV series ) and as North Korean Special forces officer instructor Kim Hang Ah in The King 2 Hearts.

Manuel González is the first president of Mexico from Tamaulipas that has been elected through popular vote ; Emilio Portes Gil, also from Tamaulipas, became the interim president of Mexico after the assassination of Álvaro Obregón.

Although her main musical partner is Portuguese pianist Mário Laginha, she has worked with many musicians throughout her career, including Aki Takase, Manu Katche, Trilok Gurtu, Bobby McFerrin, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Joe Zawinul, Ralph Towner, Dino Saluzzi, Kai Eckhardt, Gilberto Gil and Lenine.

Following chroniclers such as Fernão Lopes after the 15th century, fiction has its roots in chronicles and histories with theatre, following Gil Vicente, the father of Portuguese theatre, whose works was critical of the society of his time.

After a summer break, Honda decided to bring back a portion of the " Element and Friends " ad campaign, but with a focus on the crab, who now has a name: Gil.