Gaston

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Gaston may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Fiction 4 Other

[edit] Places

• In the United States:
  • Gaston, Indiana
  • Gaston, Oregon
  • Gaston, South Carolina
  • Gaston County, North Carolina
    • Gaston College, a community college in North Carolina
• A variant spelling of Gastun, a Crusader castle in Turkey

[edit] People

• Cito Gaston, former Major League Baseball player and manager
• Gheorghe Gaston Marin, a Romanian politician
• William Gaston, a jurist and United States Representative from North Carolina
• William Gaston (Massachusetts), a 19th century Governor of Massachusetts
• William H. Gaston, one of the founders of Dallas, Texas, and a Confederate soldier
• Yves Leopold Germain Gaston, 19th century French sugar baron in the Philippines
• Gaston Doumergue, French politician, President of France 1924-1931
• Gaston Glock, creator of Glock pistols
• Gaston Julia, a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set
• Gaston Leroux, French writer and author of The Phantom of the Opera
• Gaston Michel, a French silent film actor
• Gaston Rébuffat, a French alpinist
  • gaston (climbing), the climbing technique named after Gaston Rébuffat

[edit] Fiction

• Gaston Lagaffe, a Belgian comic strip by André Franquin
• Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), the name of the hunter and villain in Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast

[edit] Other

• Hurricane Gaston
• "Gastón", the Spanish word for a male big spender