George Washington (name)

This article is about people named George Washington. For other uses, see George Washington (disambiguation).

George Washington (1732–1799) was the Commander-in-Chief of Continental forces in the American Revolution and the first President of the United States after the war of independence.

Many people have been named after him, including:

People with the surname Washington

• George Corbin Washington (1789–1854), U.S. Congressman from Maryland 1827–1833
• George Washington (inventor) (1871–1946), American businessman
• George Washington (Washington pioneer) (1871–1905), American pioneer

People with the given name George Washington

• George Washington Adams (1801–1829), American politician, and eldest son of U.S. President John Quincy Adams
• George Washington Anderson (1832–1902), American politician
• George Washington Baines (1809–1882), American clergyman and maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson
• George Washington Bethune (1805–1862), preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church
• George Washington Blanchard (1884–1964), American politician
• George Washington Bolton (1841–1931), American banker and politician
• George Washington Bridges (1825–1873), American politician
• George Washington Bush (1779–1863), American pioneer
• George Washington Caldwell (1849–1916), Michigan State Representative from 1897 through 1900
• George Washington Campbell (1769–1848), 5th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• George Washington Campbell (1828–1905), cofounder and lifelong board member of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute
• George Washington Carver (c. 1864/5–1943), American botanist
• George Washington Cass (1810–1888), American industrialist
• George Washington Chaneco (1838–1911), American politician
• George Washington Crile (1864–1943), American surgeon
• George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), adopted son (and also step-grandson) of President George Washington
• George Washington Cullum (1809–1892), Union Army general
• George Washington Cutter (1801–1865), American poet and Mexican War veteran
• George Washington DeLong (1844–1881), United States Navy officer
• George Washington Dietzler (1826–1884), Union Army general
• George Washington Dixon (1801–1861), American singer, stage actor, and newspaper editor
• George Washington Doane (1799–1859), American churchman, Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey
• George Washington Donaghey (1856–1937), governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1909 to 1913
• George Washington Emery Dorsey (1842–1911), American politician
• George Washington Duke (1820–1905), American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist
• George Washington Dupee (1826-1897), American Baptist leader
• George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (1859–1896), American engineer
• George Washington Fleeger (1839–1894), American politician
• George Washington Gale (1789), an American minister
• George Washington Getty (1819–1901), American Civil War Union general
• George Washington Glasscock (1810–1868), early settler, legislator, and businessman in Tousha.
• George Washington Glick (1827–1911), American politician
• George Washington Goethals (1858–1928), U.S. Army officer and civil engineer
• George Washington Gordon (1836–1911), Confederate Army general
• George Washington Grayson (1843–1920), Creek scholar, writer, and nationalist
• George Washington Greene (1775–1793), son of General Nathanael Greene, he drowned in the Savannah River.
• George Washington Greene (1811–1883), American historian & grandson of Gen. Greene, he died by drowning like his uncle.
• George Washington Harris (1814–1869), American humorist
• George Washington Hays (1863–1927), American politician
• George Washington Helme (1822–1893), American businessman and soldier
• George Washington Hockley (1802–1854), a Texas revolutionary who served as Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas.
• George Washington Hopkins (1804–1861), American politician, diplomat, lawyer, judge and teacher
• George Washington Johnson (1811–1862), first Confederate governor of Kentucky
• George Washington Jones (Tennessee politician) (1806–1884), American politician
• George Washington Jones (Texas politician) (1828–1903), American politician
• George Washington Julian (1817–1899), American politician, writer, candidate for Vice President of the United States
• Georges Washington de La Fayette (1779–1849), son of the Marquis de Lafayette (French hero of the American Revolutionary War)
• George Washington Lambert (1873–1930), Australian artist
• George Washington Custis Lee (also known as Custis Lee) (1832–1913), eldest son of Robert E. Lee
• George Washington Lent Marr (1779–1856), American politician
• George Washington Morgan (1820–1893), American Civil War general
• George Washington Ochs Oakes (1861–1931), American journalist
• George Washington Owen (1796–1837), American politician
• George Washington Patterson (1799–1879), American politician
• George Washington Peck (1818–1905), American politician
• George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924), American politician
• George Washington Putnam (1826–1899), American soldier and politician
• George Washington Rightmire (1868–1952), American educator
• George Washington Riggs (1813–1881), American businessman
• George Washington Scott (1829–1903), American businessman and military officer
• George Washington Shonk (1850–1900), American politician
• George Washington Steele (1839–1922), American lawyer, soldier, and politician
• George Washington Toland (1796–1869), American politician
• George Washington Truett (1867–1944), American minister and writer
• George Washington Vanderbilt (1839–1864), the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family
• George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), builder of the Biltmore House
• George Washington Vanderbilt III (1914–1961), a yachtsman and scientific explorer
• George Washington Walker (1800–1859), English Quaker missionary who settled in Tasmania
• George Washington Whistler (1800–1849), American railroad engineer
• George Washington Williams (1849–1891), American religious figure and politician
• George Washington Williams (1869–1925), United States Navy admiral
• George Washington Wilson (1823–1893), Scottish photographer
• George Washington Woodward (1809–1875), American politician
• George Washington Wright (1816–1885), American politician
• Prince George Washington of Siam (Bovorn Vichaichan) (1838–1885), Siamese Prince and Second King

Fictional characters with the given names George Washington

• G. W. Bridge, a Marvel Comics character named after New York City's George Washington Bridge
• George Washington Carver Davis, the original given name of Alim Nassor in the novel Lucifer's Hammer, notably, the given name here, "George Washington Carver" is in and of itself based on the real person, George Washington Carver (see above)
• George Washington Duke (fictional character), a fictional character from the 1990 film Rocky V
• G. W. (George Washington) McLintock, played by John Wayne in 1963 movie McLintock!
• In Metal Gear Solid 2, Arsenal Gear's AI has been given the initials of George Washington
• George Washington, one of the names of the frog from the animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall

See also

• George Washington (disambiguation)
• Washington (name)