George Washington (name)

George Washington (1732–1799) was the commander-in-chief of Continental forces in the American Revolution and the first president of the United States.

Other persons with the same name include:

• George Washington (baseball) (1907–1985), American baseball player
• George Washington (inventor) (1871–1946), Belgium-born American inventor of an instant coffee process
• George Washington Jr. (1899–1966), his son, inventor of a photoengraving process for newspapers
• George Washington (Louisiana politician) (1830–?), African-American state legislator in the 1870s
• George Washington (Mississippi politician) (), African-American state legislator
• George Washington (trombonist) (born 1907), American jazz trombonist
• George Washington (Washington pioneer) (1817–1905), African American pioneer, founder of Centralia, Washington
• George Augustine Washington (1815–1892), American tobacco planter, slaveholder, company director and politician
• George C. Washington (1789–1854), United States Congressman from Maryland
• George Dewey Washington (1898–1954), American singer
• George Steptoe Washington (1771–1809), planter, militia officer and nephew of the first President
• George Thomas Washington (1908–1971), judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
• George T. Washington (Liberia) (born 1928), Liberian political figure
• George Washington (sprinter), winner of the 1982 NCAA Division I outdoor 4 × 400 meter relay championship
• George W. Ashburn (1814–1868), full name George Washington Ashburn, American politician assassinated by the Ku Klux Klan

See also

• George Washington (disambiguation)
• Georges Washington
• George Washington Carver