Gaston
For other uses, see Gaston (disambiguation).
Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin. It is also a surname.
Also, the word 'Gaston' is used within rock climbing jargon to describe a specific movement skill, or hand hold position.
The name for this climbing hold techniques came from a famous french alpinist Gaston Rebuffat, famous for is Mont Blanc ascent and putting up some of the most famous routes in the French Alps. His book features according to himself the best 100 routes of the French Alps. It's Common among alpine climbers to collect Rebuffat points to contribute to an alpine career. Holding all 100 points is something all Alpine climbers aspire to.
It may refer to:
Given name
People
- Vedast (died c. 540), bishop of Arras and Cambrai, also known as Saint Gaston
- Gaston, comte d'Eu, French prince and military commander
- Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French nobleman
- Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331-1391)
- Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1422-1472), French nobleman
- Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana (1444-1470), Prince of Navarre, son of Gaston IV
- Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale, French nobleman
- Gaston V, Viscount of Béarn (died 1170)
- Gaston VI, Viscount of Béarn (1173–1214)
- Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn (1225-1290)
- Gaston Caperton, former Governor of West Virginia
- Gastón de Peralta, marqués de Falces, viceroy of New Spain
- Gaston Defferre, French politician and publisher
- Gaston Doumergue, French politician, President of France 1924-31
- Gastón Etlis, Argentinian tennis player
- Gaston Flosse, four-time President of French Polynesia
- Gastón Gaudio, Argentinian tennis player
- Gaston Glock, creator of Glock pistols
- Gaston Julia (1893–1978), French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set
- Gaston Leroux, French writer and author of The Phantom of the Opera
- Gaston Michel, French silent film actor
- Gaston Rébuffat, French alpinist
- Gaston Salmon, Belgian Olympic champion épée fencer
- Gaston Thorn, Luxembourgian politician, a former Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1974–79) and President of the European Commission (1981–85)
- Gaston Tong Sang, former President of French Polynesia
Other
- Gaston Lagaffe, the title character of Gaston (comics), a Belgian comic strip by André Franquin
- Gaston, a character in Colette's 1944 novella Gigi
- Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), the name of the hunter and villain in Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast
- Gaston (Disney song), a song from 1991 Disney's Beauty and the Beast
- Gaston (seal), who escaped from the Prague Zoo during the 2002 flood
Surname
- A. G. Gaston (1892–1996), an American businessman in Alabama
- Cito Gaston, former Major League Baseball player and manager
- Iñaki Gastón, a Spanish professional road bicycle racer
- Joe Gaston, a politician in Northern Ireland
- Joseph P. Gaston (1833–1913), an American railroad executive and lawyer in Oregon
- Marilyn Gaston (b. 1939), an American physician
- Michael Gaston, an American actor
- William Gaston, jurist and United States Representative from North Carolina
- William Gaston (Massachusetts), 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