- Mohammed Ibn Gao
Mohammed ibn Gao was mansa (ruler) of the Mali Empire from 1305 to 1312. Great-grandson of legendary empire founder Sundiata Keita, Mohammed ibn Qu inherited the throne following his father Gao's death in 1305 (?). According to an unsubstantiated theory he was succeeded by his brother Abubakari II in 1310, but according to the well-informed Maghribi historian Ibn Khaldun Mohammed ruled until 1312, whilst there is no documentary evidence for a ruler called Abubakari II.
- Empress Gao
Empress Gao was an empress of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Eastern Wei -- a branch successor state to Northern Wei. Her husband was Emperor Xiaojing, Eastern Wei's only emperor. She was the second daughter of the paramount general Gao Huan, who, after a formal break with Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei in 534, made Emperor Xiaojing, then age 10, emperor, thus dividing Northern Wei into Eastern Wei and Western Wei.
- George Gao
George Gao (born 1967) is an erhu player and composer.
- Li Gao
Li Gao (李暠) (351-417), courtesy name Xuansheng (玄盛), nickname Changsheng (長生), formally Prince Wuzhao of (Western) Liang ((西)涼武昭王), was the founding duke of the Chinese state Western Liáng. (While he claimed only the title of duke during his reign, he was posthumoustly honored with the princely title.) He was initially a Northern Liang official, but in 400, …
- Huajian Gao
Huajian Gao is an American materials scientist and engineer. He joined the Max Planck Society in 2001 and is currently (2005) Director of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart.
- Yang Gao
Yang Gao (楊杲) (607-618), nickname Jizi (季子), was an imperial prince of the Chinese dynasty Sui Dynasty. He was the youngest son of Emperor Yang. Yang Gao was born in 607, after Emperor Yang had already become emperor. His mother was Consort Xiao, of whom little is known, and she might have been a sister or a relative of Emperor Yang's wife Empress Xiao. In 613, he was created the Prince of Zhao.
- Tapir Gao
Tapir Gao (born October 1, 1964) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Arunachal East constituency of Arunachal Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Empress Gao
Empress Gao (died 518) was an empress of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei. She was the second empress of Emperor Xuanwu. She was the daughter of Gao Yan (高偃), a younger brother of Emperor Xuanwu's mother Consort Gao (posthumously honored as Empress Zhao), making them cousins. It is not clear when she became his concubine, but it was likely after he already had his first empress, Empress Yu, in 501.
- Empress Gao
Empress Gao was an empress of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei. Her husband was Emperor Xiaowu. She was the oldest daughter of the paramount general Gao Huan. Gao Huan had overthrown the Erzhu clan (members of the clan of Erzhu Rong who had overthrown Emperor Xiaozhuang after Emperor Xiaozhuang killed Erzhu Rong in 530) in 532 and removed Emperor Jiemin, making Emperor Xiaowu emperor instead. Around the new year 533, Emperor Xiaowu married her as his empress.
- Zhao Gao
Zhao Gao (?? - 207 BC) was the chief eunuch during the Qin Dynasty of China, who played an instrumental role in the downfall of the Qin Dynasty. Note that while he is referred to as a eunuch, he was not castrated - he was born with a sexual disability.
- David M. Walker
David M. Walker became the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and began his 15-year term when he took his oath of office on November 9, 1998. Mr. Walker was appointed by President Bill Clinton. As Comptroller General, Mr. Walker is the nation’s chief accountability officer and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a legislative branch agency founded in 1921.
- Gao
Gao was Mansa of the Mali Empire from 1300 to 1305. Son of legendary founder Sundiata Keita, Gao assumed the throne following the murder of the usurper Sakura on Sakura's return from the hajj. He ruled until 1305, when he was succeed by his son Mohammed ibn Gao.
- Gao Hong
Gao Hong (surname Gao; b. Luoyang, Henan, China, 1964) is a performer of the Chinese pipa (pear-shaped lute). Gao has lived in the United States since 1994. She performs traditional and modern Chinese music, with her groups Spirit of Nature and Beijing Trio (a different group from the Beijing Trio which includes Max Roach, Jon Jang, and Jiebing Chen). She has also participated in cross-cultural musical collaborations, …
- Sakura
Mansa Sakura or Mansa Sakoura was the sixth mansa of the Mali Empire. A slave at birth, Sakura was freed and became a general in the army of Sundiata Keita, legendary founder of the Mali Empire. After a debilitating struggle for succession between Sundiata's sons Ouati Keita and Khalifa Keita and his grandson Abu Bakr, Sakura seized control of the throne himself in about 1285. Near-contemporary historian Ibn Khaldun records that under Sakura's leadership, …
- Askia Ishaq II
Askia Ishaq II was ruler of the Songhai Empire from 1588 to 1591. Ishaq came to power in a long dynastic struggle following the death of the long-ruling Askia Daoud. Sensing the Empire's weakness, Moroccan Sultan Ahmad I al-Mansur Saadi dispatched a 4,000-man force under the Islamicized Spaniard Judar Pasha across the Sahara desert in October 1590. Though Ishaq assembled more than 40,000 soldiers to meet the Moroccans, …
- Judar Pasha
Judar Pasha was a military leader of Morocco's Saadi Dynasty and the conqueror of the Songhai Empire. Born a Spaniard, Judar had been captured as a baby. As a young boy he joined the service of Moroccan Sultan Ahmad I al-Mansur Saadi. Like many of Ahmad's officers, Judar was a eunuch. In 1590, Ahmad I made Judar a pasha and appointed him the head of an invasion force against the Songhai Empire of what is now Mali.
- Askia Mohammad I
Askia the Great (c. 1442-1538, also Muhammad Ture) was a Soninke king of the Songhai Empire in the late 15th century. Askia Muhammad strengthened his country and made it the largest country in West Africa's history. At its peak under Muhammad, the Songhai Empire encompassed the Hausa states as far as Kano (in present-day Nigeria) and much of the territory that had belonged to the Mali Empire in the west.
- Empress Li
Empress Li was an empress of the Chinese/Di state Former Qin. Her husband was Fu Deng (Emperor Gao). Very little is known about her. She was already Fu Deng's concubine by 392, when Fu Deng created her empress to replace Empress Mao, who had been captured and killed by the rival Later Qin's emperor Yao Chang in 389. In 393, when Fu Deng was captured and killed by Yao Chang's son and successor Yao Xing, Yao Xing gave her to his official Yao Huang (姚晃).
- Empress Mao
Empress Mao (d. 389) was an empress of the Chinese/Di state Former Qin. Her husband was Fu Deng (Emperor Gao). She was the daughter of the general Mao Xing (毛興), who served as the governor of He Province (河州, modern southwestern Gansu and eastern Qinghai) during the reign of Fu Jiān (Emperor Xuanzhao). After Former Qin began to disintegrate in 384 following the defeat at the Battle of Fei River, the generals in the western empire began to turn on each other, …
- Askia Mohammad Benkan
Askia Mohammad Benkan (also "Askiya Muhammad Bonkana") ruled the Songhai Empire from 1531 to April 1537. After Mohammad Benkan's uncle, the famous and long-ruling monarch Askia Mohammad, had grown old and partially blind, his son Askia Musa deposed him in a bloodless coup, assuming the throne himself. Shocked by Musa's ruthless actions to eliminate rivals Musa's brothers conspired together and killed him.
- Odmar Amaral Gurgel
- Gao Feng Jun
- Gao Xiang
- Ahmad I Al-Mansur Saadi
Ahmad I al-Mansur (also Ahmed el-Mansour and El-Mansour Eddahbi) was Sultan of Saadi dynasty from 1578 to his death in 1603, the sixth and most famous of all rulers of the Saadis. He was the third son of Mohammed ash-Sheikh who became sultan of Morocco. In 1578, Ahmad's brother, Sultan Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, died in battle against the Portuguese army at Ksar el Kebir.
- Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian, born January 4, 1940 in Ganzhou (Jiangxi province) in eastern China, is today a French citizen. Writer of prose, translator, dramatist, director, critic and artist. Gao Xingjian grew up during the aftermath of the Japanese invasion, his father was a bank official and his mother an amateur actress who stimulated the young Gao's interest in the theatre and writing.
- Clifton Ko
Clifton Ko (born 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, actor, producer and scriptwriter.
- Gao Cheng
Gao Cheng (高澄) (521-549), courtesy name Zihui (子惠), formally Prince Wenxiang of Bohai (勃海文襄王), later further posthumously honored by Northern Qi as Emperor Wenxiang (文襄皇帝) with the temple name Shizong (世宗), was the paramount official of the Chinese/Xianbei state Eastern Wei, a branch successor state of Northern Wei.
- Gao Huan
Gao Huan (高歡) (496-547), nickname Heliuhun, formally Prince Xianwu of Qi, later further formally honored by Northern Qi initially as Emperor Xianwu (獻武皇帝, literally "the wise and martial emperor"), then as Emperor Shenwu (神武皇帝, literally "the unnamable and martial emperor) with the temple name Gaozu (高祖), …
- Gao Jifu
Gao Jifu (596-January 16, 654), formal name Gao Feng (高馮) but went by the courtesy name of Jifu, formally Duke Xian of Tiao (蓨憲公), was a chancellor of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, during the reigns of Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong.
- Robert Bergland
Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22, 1928 in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program. He became an official with the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service United States Department of Agriculture from 1963 to 1968.
- Gao Rou
Gao Rou (高柔) a minister of the Three Kingdoms Period, and younger cousin to Gao Gan. Gao Rou was known as the Wei Minister of Interior. When Sima Yi rose in revolt, he became Grand General in place of Cao Shuang, then occupying his camp.
- Gao Zhisheng
Gao Zhisheng, age 41, is a Chinese army veteran, self taught lawyer and Christian whose law practice has been suspended by the Chinese authorities.
- Gao Yaojie
Dr. Gao Yaojie (born 1927) is a Chinese gynecologist, academic, and AIDS activist in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. Gao has been honored for her work by the United Nations and Western organizations, and has spent time under house arrest.
- Gao Xiumin
Gao Xiumin (1959-2005) was a Chinese comedy actress. She was a regular at the CCTV New Year's Galas, and was famous in partnership with Zhao Benshan. She played Ding Xiang in Chinese TV Series "Liu Laogen".
- Gao Ling
Gao Ling is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.
- Gao Song
Gao Song (born on March 20, 1981 in Heilongjiang, China) is a Chinese figure skater. He captured the bronze medal at the 2002 Four Continents Championships.
- Gao Yuanyuan
Gao Yuanyuan (born October 5, 1979) is a Chinese actress.
- Gao Hongbo
Gao Hongbo is the current coach of Changchun Yatai football club. Born in Beijing, Gao Hongbo was coached by Xu Genbao in a Beijing sport school. He joined the Beijig Youth Football Team in 1981 and was promoted to the Beijing team (now Beijing Guoan) in 1985. In early 1990s he became a regular starter, but in 1994 he left the team to play in Singapore, citing the difficulty to pass the physical standard test of the football association.
- Gao Yisheng
Gao Yisheng was the creator of the Gao style of the Chinese Internal Martial Art of Baguazhang. His life bridged the second generation and third generation of Bagua practitioners into the 20th century. He was one of the few third generation Bagua practitioners to live beyond the 1940's. His innovation and impact on Bagua as a fighting art cannot be underestimated.
- Gao Qi
Gao Qi (高启, 1336-1374),style name Ji Di 季迪, pseudonym Qinqiuzhi 青丘子 is generally acknowledged as the greatest poet of the Ming dynasty in China. He was born and raised in the shore of Wusong River, north of Puli Town near Suzhou. His life was dominated by the fall of the Yuan dynasty and the rise of the Ming. In the 2nd year of Ming Hongwu, Gao Qi was called on as editor of Yuan Shi, The History of Yuan.