Gussie is a shortened version of the
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...
s Augustus, Augusta, Gustave and others.
Gussie or Gussy may refer to:
People
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Edward Augustus Bowles
Edward Augustus (Gus or Gussie) Bowles (14 May 1865 – 7 May 1954) was a British horticulturalist, plantsman and garden writer. He developed an important garden at Myddelton House, his lifelong home at Bulls Cross in Enfield, Middles ...
(1865–1954), British horticulturalist, botanist and writer
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Gussie Busch
August Anheuser "Gussie" Busch Jr. (March 28, 1899 – September 29, 1989) was an American brewing magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch Companies into the largest brewery in the world by 1957 as company chairman from 1946 to 1975.Holian, Ti ...
(1899–1989), American brewing magnate
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Augusta Clark
Augusta "Gussie" Clark (March 5, 1932 – October 13, 2013) was an American librarian, lawyer and politician. Clark was elected to an at-large seat on the Philadelphia City Council in 1979, becoming the second African-American woman to serve ...
(1932–2013), African-American librarian, lawyer and politician
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Gussie Clarke (born 1953), Jamaican reggae music producer
*Caroline Augusta "Gussie" Clowry (1845–1897), pen name
G. Estabrook, composer and singer
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Gussie Davis
Gussie Lord Davis (December 3, 1863 – October 18, 1899) was an American songwriter born in Dayton, Ohio. Davis was one of America's earliest successful African-American music artists, the first black songwriter to become famous on Tin Pan Alley ...
(1863–1899), African-American songwriter
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Gussy Holl
Auguste Marie Christine Holl (22 February 1888 – 16 July 1966) was a German actress and singer. Holl was briefly a silent film star during the early Weimar Republic, appearing in productions such as F. W. Murnau's ''Desire'' (1921). As of 2021 ...
(1888–1966), German actress and singer
*Gussy or
Gussie Moran
Gertrude Augusta "Gussie" Moran (September 8, 1923 – January 16, 2013) was an American tennis player who was active in the late 1940s and 1950s. Her highest US national tennis ranking was 4th. She was born in Santa Monica, California and died i ...
(1923–2013), American tennis player
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Gussie Mueller
Gustave "Gussie" Mueller (April 17, 1890 – December 16, 1965) was an early jazz clarinetist.
The New Orleans, Louisiana-born Mueller was a top clarinetist with Papa Jack Laine's bands in New Orleans before going to Chicago, Illinois with ...
(1890–1965), American jazz clarinetist
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Gussie Nell Davis Gussie Nell Davis (November 4, 1906 – December 21, 1993) was an American teacher best known as the founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes, who in September 1940 became the first all-girls drill team to perform on a college football field with ...
(1909–1993), American teacher who founded the Kilgore College Rangerettes
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Gussie Ryan
Augustine "Gussie" Ryan (born 1966) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a left wing-forward for the Limerick
Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of ...
(born 1966), Irish retired hurler
Fictional characters
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Gussie Fink-Nottle
Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle is a recurring fictional character in the ''Jeeves'' novels of comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a country member of the Drones Club. He wears horn-rimmed s ...
, in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse
See also
* ''Gussie Telfair'', a merchant steamship built in 1862, formerly
USS ''Gertrude''
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Gus (disambiguation)
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