Gault (surname)

Notable people with the surname Gault are: ;In politics *

Andrew Hamilton Gault Andrew Hamilton Gault (18 August 1882 – 28 November 1958) was a Canadian Army officer and British politician. At his own expense, he raised the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the last privately raised regiment in the British Emp ...

(1882–1958), Canadian army officer and MP in the UK parliament *

Daniel Gault Daniel M. C. Gault (May 8, 1842 – April 20, 1912) was a newspaperman, educator and politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Iowa, he immigrated to the Oregon Territory with his family as a child where he became a teacher in sever ...

(1842–1912), Oregon politician *

Matthew Hamilton Gault The Hon. Matthew Hamilton Gault M.P., J.P. (18 July 1822 – 1 June 1887) was an Irish-Canadian financier and politician. In 1865, he founded Sun Life Financial at Montreal, Canada East. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in ...

(1822–1887), Canadian politician ;In sport * David Gault (born 1976), Australian footballer * Don Gault (born 1946), American football player * Ernie Gault (1889–1980), English footballer *

Georges Gault Georges Gault was a tennis player competing for France. He finished runner-up to Max Decugis in the singles final of the Amateur French Championships The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros ( ...

, French tennis player *

Michael Gault Michael Gault (born 15 April 1983) is a Northern Irish football former player who is currently manager of Linfield F.C. Swifts. He previously managed Ballymacash Rangers from 2019-20. Club career Born in Lisburn, Gault began his senior career ...

(born 1983), Northern Ireland football player * Mick Gault, English competitive shooter *

Willie Gault Willie James Gault (born September 5, 1960) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons with the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Raiders. Considered one of the f ...

(born 1960), American football player ;In other fields * Alma Elizabeth Gault (1891–1981), American nursing administrator * Annabel Gault (born 1952), British artist *

Andrew Frederick Gault Andrew Frederick Gault (14 April 1833 – 7 July 1903) was an Ulster-born Canadian merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist known as the Cotton King of Canada. Born in Strabane, Ireland, Gault was the youngest son of Leslie Gault, an Anglo-Iris ...

(1833–1903), Ulster-born Canadian merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist * Henri Gault (1929–2000), co-founder of

Gault Millau Gault et Millau is a French restaurant guide. It was founded by two restaurant critics, Henri Gault and Christian Millau in 1965. Points system Gault Millau rates on a scale of 1 to 20, with 20 being the highest. Restaurants given below 10 points ...

restaurant guides * Sir James Frederick Gault (1902–1977), British brigadier and military assistant to General Dwight Eisenhower *

John Gault John Gault was an American entrepreneur and inventor who created the encased postage stamp. Gault used these encased postage stamps as a means to solve a coin shortage during the American Civil War, Civil War as well as ultimately profit from thei ...

, American entrepreneur and inventor *

Steven Gault Steven Gault (born 1973) is a Canadian outlaw biker and police informer who played a key role in the Ontario Provincial Police's (OPP) Project Tandem operation against the Hells Angels between 2005 and 2006. Informer Gault was born in North Bay ...

, Canadian biker and police informer *

Stanley Gault Stanley Carleton Gault (January 6, 1926 – June 29, 2016) was an American businessman. Early life and education He was born on January 6, 1926, in Wooster, Ohio, to Clyde and Asenath Gault. He graduated from the College of Wooster in 1948 with ...

(born 1926), CEO of Rubbermaid *

Thomas Gault Sir Thomas Munro Gault (, 31 October 1938 – 19 May 2015) was a New Zealand jurist. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom as well as a non-permanent judge of the Court o ...

(1938–2015), New Zealand judge *

William Campbell Gault William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was an American writer. He wrote under his own name, and as Roney Scott and Will Duke, among other pseudonyms. He is probably best remembered for his sports fiction, particularly the young-readers' novels he be ...

(1910–1995), American novelist ;Fictional people * Lucy Gault, principal character in William Trevor's novel ''

The Story of Lucy Gault ''The Story of Lucy Gault'' is a novel written by William Trevor in 2002. The book is divided into three sections: the childhood, middle age and older times of the girl, Lucy. The story takes place in Ireland during the transition to the 21st cent ...

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Captain Gault ''Captain Gault'' is a fictional sea captain created by English writer William Hope Hodgson. Many of the Captain Gault stories were collected in the book ''Captain Gault, Being the Exceedingly Private Log of a Sea-Captain'', published in 1917. Note ...

, an English sea captain in stories by William Hope Hodgson * Captain Gault, one of the

Characters of Lost The characters from the American drama television series ''Lost'' were created by Damon Lindelof and J. J. Abrams. The series follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet from the fic ...

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