Gibson

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Contents 1 People 2 Places

Gibson may refer to:

• Gibson Amphitheatre
• Gibson Appliance
• Gibson Girl
• Gibson Guitar Corporation
• Gibson Martini
• Gibson Psychic
• Gibson Performance, an American exhaust and header manufacturer

[edit] People

• Alexander Gibson (conductor) (1926–1995), Scottish composer and music director
• Alexander Gibson (industrialist) (1819–1913), Canadian industrialist
• Alfred Gibson (?–1874), Australian explorer
• Althea Gibson (1927–2003), African-American tennis player
• Bob Gibson (born 1935), American baseball pitcher
• Bob Gibson (musician) (1931–1996), American folksinger
• Charles Gibson (born 1943), an American television journalist
• Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), American graphic artist, creator of the Gibson Girl
• Charles H. Gibson (1842–1900), United States Senator from Maryland
• Colin Gibson (born 1961), English footballer
• Deborah Gibson (born 1970), singer, Broadway performer, and former teen idol; credited as Debbie Gibson during her Teen Idol days
• Don Gibson (1928–2003), American country musician
• Edmund Gibson (1669–1748), English divine and jurist
• Edward Gibson (born 1936), American astronaut
• Eleanor J Gibson eminent American psychologist
• Gordon Gibson (born 1937), Canadian political columnist, author, and politician
• Guy Gibson (1918–1944), Royal Air Force officer and commander of the 'Dambusters' squadron
• Hoot Gibson (1892–1962), rodeo champion, pioneer cowboy film actor, film director, and producer
• Hutton Gibson (born 1918), father of actor Mel Gibson and a writer on religion
• Ian Gibson (artist), British comic book artist
• J. J. Gibson (1904–1979), American psychologist influential in the field of visual perception
• Jabbar Gibson
• Jill Gibson (born 1942), singer and artist who sang briefly in The Mamas & the Papas
• John Gibson (Indiana), American territorial governor of the Indiana Territory (1800–1816)
• John Gibson (media host) (born 1946), American conservative commentator and author
• John Douglas Gibson (c.1925-1984), Australian ornithologist and albatross expert
• Jon Gibson (minimalist musician) (born 1940) is a flautist, saxophonist, and composer
• Josh Gibson (1911-1947), Baseball Hall of Fame member and outstanding player in the Negro Leagues
• Kirk Gibson (born 1957), American baseball slugger
• Marcus Gibson (born 1973), Australian author
• Mel Gibson (born 1956), American film actor, director, and producer
• Michael Gibson (1944-2005), American film and stage musician and orchestrator
• Orville Gibson (1856-1918), American luthier and founder of Gibson Guitar Corporation
• Ralph Gibson (born 1939), American awarded photographer
• Randall L. Gibson (1832–1892), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Louisiana
• Robert L. Gibson (born 1946), American astronaut
• Steve Gibson (born 1955), computer engineer and journalist, founder of Gibson Research Corporation
• Thomas Milner Gibson (1806–1884), English politician
• Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), British poet
• William Gibson (Canadian parliamentarian) (1849–1914), Canadian MP and Senator
• William Gibson (Catholic martyr) (died 1596), English Catholic martyr
• William Gibson (novelist) (born 1948), American science fiction and cyberpunk novelist, author of Neuromancer
• William Gibson (playwright) (born 1914), American playwright, author of The Miracle Worker
• William Hamilton Gibson (1850–1896), American illustrator, author and naturalist

[edit] Places

In the United States:

• Gibson County, Indiana
• Gibson, Louisiana
• Gibson Township, Michigan
• Gibson, Mississippi
• Gibson, Tennessee
• Gibson County, Tennessee
• Gibson, Wisconsin

In Australia:

• Gibson, Western Australia, a small village
• Gibson Desert