Gus
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, Gustafson, Gustavo, Gussie).
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It can also be used as the adaptation into English of the popular Greek name Kostas or Konstantinos (Costantine), especially amongst Greek immigrants in English-speaking countries, probably due to similarity in the sound.
Gus may refer to:
People
Given name
- Gus Arnheim (1897–1955), American pianist, bandleader and songwriter
- Gus Edwards (vaudeville) (1878–1945), German-born American songwriter, vaudevillian and music producer, born Gustave Schmelowsky
- Gus Edwards (American football) (born 1995), American football player
- 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) (1913–2000), American jazz drummer
- Gus McNaughton (1881-1969), British actor
- 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
- Gus Zernial (1923–2011), American Major League Baseball player
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 Johnson (comedian) (born 1995), Youtube Personality and comedian
- Gus Kahn (1886–1941), American songwriter, lyricist and musician
- Gus Kelly (1877–1951), Irish cricketer
- Gus Kenworthy (born 1991), British-born American freestyle skier, 2014 Olympic silver medalist
- Gus Ketchum (1897–1980), American professional baseball pitcher with the 1922 Philadelphia Athletics
- Gus MacPherson (born 1968), Scottish football manager and former player
- Gus Mancuso (1905–1984), American baseball player, coach, scout and radio sports commentator
- Gus Mears (1873–1912), English businessman and founder of Chelsea F.C.
- Gus Meins (1893-1940), German-American director
- 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
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 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation
- 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 (Psych), 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, a recurring character and student on Disney Channel series Andi Mack
- 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, from the video game series Crazy Taxi
Other
- Gus (1976 film), about a football-playing mule
- Gus (polar bear), at the Central Park Zoo in New York City
- GUS the eagle, mascot of Georgia Southern University
- Statistics Poland, which is Główny Urząd Statystyczny, or GUS for short, in Polish
- Gravis Ultrasound (GUS)
See also
References
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