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{{short description|Video game protagonist of the Half-Life series}}
{{about||the American immunologist and oncologist|Gordon J. Freeman}}
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{{Infobox character
| series = [[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]
| image = Gordon Freeman.png
| alt = A white man in an armoured suit clutches a shotgun. The man has brown hair, a short beard and mustache, green eyes and thick black glasses. The suit is predominately orange with black trim, the Greek letter ''Lambda'' emblazoned on the suit's chest.
| caption = Gordon in ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' (2004)
| firstgame = ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]]'' (1998)
| creator = [[Gabe Newell]]<ref name=Gabe/>
| designer = {{Plainlist|
* Gabe Newell<ref name=Gabe/>
* [[Marc Laidlaw]]<ref name=Marc/>
}}
| nationality = American
| home = [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
}}

'''Gordon Freeman''' is the [[silent protagonist]] of the ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]'' video game series, created by [[Gabe Newell]] and designed by [[Marc Laidlaw]] of [[Valve Corporation|Valve]].<ref name=Gabe>{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/top/game-creators/16.html |title=The Top 100 Game Creators of All Time - 16. Gabe Newell |website=IGN |access-date=February 9, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222011639/http://www.ign.com/top/game-creators/16.html |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }}</ref><ref name=Marc>{{cite web|url=http://www.giantbomb.com/marc-laidlaw/3040-4489/ |title=Marc Laidlaw |website=Giant Bomb |access-date=February 9, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301043605/http://www.giantbomb.com/marc-laidlaw/3040-4489/ |archive-date=March 1, 2014 }}</ref> His first appearance is in ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]]'' (1998). Gordon is depicted as a [[bespectacled]] [[White people|white]] man from [[Seattle]], with [[brown hair]] and a signature [[list of facial hairstyles|circle beard]], who graduated from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] with a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in [[theoretical physics]]. He was an employee at the fictional [[Black Mesa Research Facility]]. Controlled by the player, Gordon is often tasked with using a wide range of weapons and tools to fight alien creatures such as [[headcrabs]], as well as [[Combine (Half-Life)|Combine]] machines and soldiers. Gordon's character has been well received by critics and gamers, and various gaming websites often consider him to be one of the greatest video game characters of all time, including [[UGO]] and ''[[GameSpot]]''.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />