Our favorite celebrity - nay, our favorite person in the world outside of friends, family, loved ones and fellow staff members of The Hollywood Gossip! - turns 47 today.

Indeed, everyone needs to take a moment and leave George Clooney a note of congratulations on our site today. We'll make sure he gets it.

In honor of his Benevolent Hotness celebrating a birthday, here are a series of George Clooney photos. (Be warned, ladies, a few are of him with longtime girlfriend Sarah Larson. That skank.)