Gaston

Gaston is a male French name. It may also refer to:

Places:

  • Gaston, California
  • Gaston, Oregon
  • Gaston, South Carolina
  • Gaston County, North Carolina
  • A variant spelling of Gastun, present-day Bagras, a Crusader castle in Turkey

People:

  • Cito Gaston, former Major League Baseball player and manager
  • 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
  • Gaston, comte d'Eu, French prince and military commander
  • Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale, French nobleman
  • 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
  • Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French nobleman
  • 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, 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
  • Gheorghe Gaston Marin, Romanian politician
  • Jean Gaston Darboux, French mathematician

Animals:

  • Gaston (seal), a famous seal that escaped Prague Zoo during the flood 2002

Fiction:

  • Gaston (comics), Belgian comic strip by André Franquin featuring Gaston Lagaffe
  • Gaston, 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

Other:

  • Gaston (climbing), the climbing technique named after Gaston Rébuffat
  • Gaston College, a community college in North Carolina
  • Hurricane Gaston
  • Tropical Storm Gaston (2010)