Geordie (given name)

Geordie is a masculine given name. It may also be a nickname for people named George or associated with the Tyneside area of North East England.

Notable people known as Geordie include:

• George Armstrong (footballer) (1944–2000), English football player and coach
• George P. Anderson (1885–1958), Australian rules footballer
• George Best (1946–2005), Northern Irish footballer
• Geordie Bourne (died 1597), Scottish thief or raider
• Ralph Bullock (jockey) (1841–1863), Derby-winning British jockey
• George Geordie Dewar (1867–1915), Scottish footballer
• George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk (1906–1994), Scottish Second World War Royal Air Force officer and politician
• George Drummond (footballer, born 1865) (1865–1914), Scottish footballer
• George Geordie Greig (born 1960), English journalist and editor of The Mail on Sunday
• Geordie Greep (born 1999), English musician
• George Geordie Hormel (1928–2006), American music composer and recording studio proprietor
• George Ker, Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s
• Geordie Lyall (born 1976), Canadian soccer player
• George Geordie Neave (fl. 1895–1896), English footballer
• Fredrik Geordie Newman (fl. 1927), English-born New Zealand footballer
• Gordon Geordie Reid (1882–1960), Scottish footballer
• Gordon Geordie Richardson (1835–1905), English-born New Zealand merchant, entrepreneur and ship owner
• George "Geordie" Ridley (1835–1864), English concert hall song writer and performer
• Geordie Stewart (born 1989), British author and mountaineer
• Kevin Geordie Walker (1958–2023), British-American guitarist with the post-punk group Killing Joke
• Geordie Williamson (born 1981), Australian mathematician and professor
• a mocking nickname for King George I of Great Britain in the folksong "Cam Ye O'er Frae France"

See also

• Geordi, given name
• Geordy, given name
• Jordi
• Jordie
• Jordy