Gaston

Gaston

Gaston may refer to:

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
* Gaston School, a school near Gadsden Alabama

People

* Cito Gaston, former Major League Baseball player and current 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

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"

Other

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


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