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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.
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 booking combining both derivations as "strong choice".
Gus may refer to:
People
Given name
- Gus Cannon (1883-1979), American blues musician
- 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 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
- Gus Johnson (sportscaster) (born 1967), American sports announcer
- Gus Kahn (1886-1941), songwriter, lyricist and musician
- Gus Kelly (1877-1951), Irish cricketer
- Gus MacPherson, manager of St Mirren F.C.
- 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, Uruguayan footballer
- Gus Suhr (1906-2004), American Major League Baseball player
- Gus Weyhing (1866-1955), American baseball pitcher
- Gus Williams (vaudeville) (1848–1915), American comedian and songwriter
- Gus Williams (outfielder) (1888–1964), German-American 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
- Gus Black, singer-songwriter Anthony Penaloza, formerly known simply as Gus
- Gus G or Gus Gus, Greek heavy metal guitarist Kostas Karamitroudis (born 1980)
Fictional characters
- Gus McCrae, main character in the Lonesome Dove Western novel and TV miniseries
- Gus Duncz, a top gay character from the Mission Hill.
- Gus Goose, Donald Duck's second cousin
- Gus, one of two mice sidekicks of Cinderella in Disney's 1950 animated film
- Gus the Theatre Cat, in the musical Cats
- Gus Aitoro, in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light
- Gus Fring, in the TV series Breaking Bad
- Gus Griswald, one of T.J.'s friends in Disney's Recess
- Gus Smith, in the BBC soap opera Eastenders
- Gus (Psych), in USA Network's TV series Psych
- Gus the groundhog, "spokesgroundhog" for the Pennsylvania Lottery's instant scratch-off lottery games
- Gus, from the TV series Robotboy
- Gus Hedges, from the TV series Drop the Dead Donkey
- Gus, the fireman in the TV series Leave It to Beaver
- Gus Carmichael, an 11-year-old boy on the British children's TV series Tracy Beaker Returns
- Augustus "Gus" Waters, from the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Gus Honeybun, a rabbit who was a mascot for ITV franchises Westward & TSW.
Other
- Gus (polar bear), at the Central Park Zoo in New York City
- GUS the eagle, mascot of Georgia Southern University
- Główny Urząd Statystyczny (Central Statistical Office, Poland)
- GUS reporter system, a genetic modification used to study cell biology, particularly of plants