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Gus is a masculine name, often a diminutive for Angus, August, Augustine, or Augustus, and other names (e.g. Aengus, Argus, Fergus, Ghassan, Gustav, Gustave, Gustavo, Gussie).
It can also be used as the adaptation into English of the popular Greek name Kostas or Kontantinos (Costantine), especially amongst Greek immigrants in English-speaking countries, probably due to similarly in the sound.
As a stand-alone masculine name, it derives from the Old Irish word gusmhar or gusair for "strength" or "force" or the root gustu- for "choice"/"chose", with most naming books combining both derivations as "strong choice".
Gus may refer to:
Film
- Gus, a 1976 film about a football-playing mule.
People
Given name
- Gus Edwards (1879-1945), songwriter ("By the Light of the Silvery Moon"), vaudevillian and music producer born Gus Simon
- Gus Hall (1910-2000), longtime leader of the Communist Party USA, born Arvo Kustaa Halberg
- Gus Johnson (basketball) (1938-1987), American National Basketball Association player
- Gus Johnson (jazz musician), American jazz drummer
- Gus Triandos (born 1930), former Major League Baseball player
- Gus Van Sant, (born 1952) American film director, photographer, musician and author
- Gus Williams (basketball) (born 1953), American basketball player
- Gus Williams (musician) (1937–2010), Australian country singer born Kasper Gus Ntjalka Williams
Nickname
- Greg Adams (ice hockey, born 1963), Canadian former National Hockey League player
- Gus Bell (1928-1995), American Major League Baseball player
- Gus Cannon (1883-1979), American blues musician
- Gus Dorner (1876-1956), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Gus Frerotte (born 1971), American football player
- Phil Gould (born 1958), Australian rugby league broadcaster, journalist, administrator and former player and coach
- Gus Greenlee (1893-1952), Negro League baseball team owner and African-American businessman
- Gus Grissom (1926-1967), one of the seven original American astronauts, killed in the Apollo 1 fire
- Gus Hansen (born 1974), professional Danish poker player
- Gus Henderson (1889-1965), American football coach
- Gustav A. Hoff (1852-1930), German-born American businessman and politician
- Gus Johnson (sportscaster) (born 1967), American sports announcer
- Gus Kahn (1886-1941), songwriter, lyricist and musician
- Gus Kelly (1877-1951), Irish cricketer
- Gus Kenworthy (born 1991), British-born American freestyle skier, 2014 Olympic silver medalist
- Gus MacPherson (born 1968), Scottish football manager and former player
- Gus Mancuso (1905-1984), baseball player, coach, scout and radio sports commentator
- Gus Mears (1873-1912), English businessman and founder of Chelsea F.C.
- Gus Mortson (born 1924), former National Hockey League defenceman
- Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell (born 1952), British former senior civil servant and economist
- Gus Poyet (born 1967), Uruguayan former footballer
- Gus Sorola (born 1978), American actor, Founding member of Rooster Teeth
- Gus Suhr (1906-2004), American Major League Baseball player
- Gus Weyhing (1866-1955), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Gus Williams (vaudeville) (1848–1915), American comedian and songwriter
- Gus Williams (outfielder) (1888–1964), German-American Major League Baseball player
- Gus Williams (pitcher) (1870–1890), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Gus Winckel (1912–2013), Dutch World War II soldier
- Gus Yatron (1927-2003), twelve-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Stage name
Fictional characters
- Gus Aitoro, in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light
- Gus Carmichael, an 11-year-old boy on the British children's TV series Tracy Beaker Returns
- Gus Duncz, a gay character in the animated TV series Mission Hill
- Gus Fring, in the TV series Breaking Bad
- Gus Goose, Donald Duck's second cousin
- Gus Gorman, character played by Richard Pryor in Superman III
- Gus Grav, former antagonist from the animated series Bakugan: New Vestroia and Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge
- Gus Grimly, in the TV series Fargo
- Gus Griswald, one of T.J.'s friends in Disney's Recess
- Gus Hedges, from the TV series Drop the Dead Donkey
- Gus McCrae, main character in the Lonesome Dove Western novel and TV miniseries
- Gus Matthews, the main character in the film The Benchwarmers
- Professor Gus Nikolais, one of the main characters in the 1992 film, Lorenzo's Oil
- Gus Smith, in the BBC soap opera Eastenders
- Augustus "Gus" Waters, from the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Gus, one of two mice sidekicks of Cinderella in Disney's 1950 animated film
- Gus the Theatre Cat, in the musical Cats
- Gus, in the TV series Psych
- Gus the groundhog, "spokesgroundhog" for the Pennsylvania Lottery's instant scratch-off lottery games
- Gus, from the TV series Robotboy
- Gus, the fireman in the TV series Leave It to Beaver
- Gus Honeybun, a rabbit who was a mascot for ITV franchises Westward and TSW
- Gus, from the animated film A Troll in Central Park
- Gus Wilson, master mechanic and founder of the Model Garage, From Popular Science magazine
- Gus, an Artificial Intelligence from Murder on the Orient Express (an episode of British T.V show Doctor Who)
- Gus, character in the TV show Love
Other
- Gus (polar bear), at the Central Park Zoo in New York City
- GUS the eagle, mascot of Georgia Southern University
- GUS, acronym of Gravis Ultrasound (a high quality sound card with wavetable MIDI synth from early 1990s)
See also
References
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