Gustavus is the

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ised form of the male

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Gustav Gustav, Gustaf or Gustave may refer to: *Gustav (name), a male given name of Old Swedish origin Art, entertainment, and media * ''Primeval'' (film), a 2007 American horror film * ''Gustav'' (film series), a Hungarian series of animated short cart ...

or Gustaf, of likely Old Swedish origin, used mainly in

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, possibly meaning "staff of the Geats or

Goths The Goths ( got, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰, translit=''Gutþiuda''; la, Gothi, grc-gre, Γότθοι, Gótthoi) were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe ...

or gods", possibly derived from the

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elements ("Geats"), / ("Goths") or ("gods"), and ("staff"). Another etymology speculates that the name may be of Medieval Slavic origin, from the name ''Gostislav'', a compound word for "glorious guest", from the Medieval Slavic words ("guest") and ("glory") and was adopted by migrating groups north and west into

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and

. This name has been borne by eight

Kings of Sweden This is a list of Swedish kings, queens, regents and viceroys of the Kalmar Union. History The earliest record of what is generally considered to be a Swedish king appears in Tacitus' work '' Germania'', c. 100 AD (the king of the Suiones). Ho ...

, including the 16th-century

Gustav Vasa Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm ('' Riksför ...

and the current king, Carl XVI Gustaf. It is a common name for Swedish monarchs since the reign of Gustav Vasa. The name has entered other languages as well. In French it is ; in

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and

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it is '' Gustavo''. A side form of the name in Swedish is '' Gösta''. The name in

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is , while in Icelandic it is written or . {{Infobox given name , name = Gustavus , image= Attributed to Jacob Hoefnagel - Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden 1611-1632 - Google Art Project.jpg , imagesize= , caption= Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden , pronunciation = , gender = Male , meaning = "gods staff" or "famous guest" , region = , name day = , origin = Germanic or Slavic , related names =

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* Gustavus Abeel (1801–1887), American pastor, missionary, and writer * Gustavus Adolphus (1594–1632), King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632 **

Gustavus Adolphus Day Gustavus Adolphus Day ( sv, Gustav Adolfsdagen; fi, Kustaa Aadolfin päivä; et, Gustav Adolfi päev) is celebrated in Sweden, Finland, and Estonia on 6 November in memory of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Observing the day became popular a ...

, celebrating the king **

Gustavus Adolphus pastry Gustavus Adolphus pastry ( sv, Gustav Adolfsbakelse) is a pastry traditionally eaten every 6 November in Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus Day, the death day of King Gustavus Adolphus the Great. It is especially popular in Gothenburg, a city founded by ...

, named for the king ** Gustavus Adolphus College, named for the king * Gustavus Adolphus of the Palatinate (1632–1641), last son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine * Gustavus Aird (1813–1898), Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland * Gustavus M. Blech (1870–1949), Russian-born American physician, surgeon, and medical educator * Gustavus Miller Bower (1790–1864), U.S. Representative from Missouri *

Gustavus Brander Gustavus Brander FRS (172021 January 1787), an English naturalist who came from a Swedish family, was born in London in 1720. He was brought up as a merchant, in which capacity he achieved success and became a director of the Bank of England. H ...

(1720–1787), English naturalist * Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818–1866), Irish stage actor * Gustavus Richard Brown (1747–1804), friend of George Washington, physician, and botanist *

Gustavus Conyngham Gustavus Conyngham (about 1747 – 27 November 1819) was an Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer. As a commissioned captain fighting the British in the American Revolutionary War, he captur ...

(1747–1819), Irish-born American merchant sea captain * Gustavus Wynne Cook (1867–1940), American banker, businessman, and amateur astronomer * Gustavus Coulson (1879–1901), British Army officer and English recipient of the Victoria Cross *

Gustavus Cox Gustavus Cox (30 May 1870 – 9 September 1958) was a Barbadian cricketer. He played in eighteen first-class cricket, first-class matches for the Barbados national cricket team, Barbados cricket team from 1893 to 1905. See also * List of Bar ...

(1870–1958), Barbadian cricketer * Gustavus De Russy (1818–1891), U.S. Army career officer and American Civil War general *

Gustavus Cheyney Doane Gustavus Cheyney Doane (May 29, 1840 – May 5, 1892) was a U.S. Army Cavalry Captain, explorer, inventor and Civil War soldier who played a prominent role in the exploration of Yellowstone as a member of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expeditio ...

(1840–1892), U.S. Army Cavalry Captain, explorer, and inventor * Gustavus Esselen (1888–1952), American chemist * Gustavus A. Finkelnburg (1837–1908), United States representative from Missouri and federal judge * Gustavus Fowke (1880–1946), English army officer and first-class cricketer *

Gustavus Fox Gustavus Vasa Fox (June 13, 1821 – October 29, 1883) was an officer of the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War, and as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. Life and career Fox was born at Saugus, Ma ...

(1821–1883), U.S. Navy officer * Gustavus Richard Glenn (1848–1939), American academic * Gustavus Green (1865–1964), British engineer and contributor to the design of early aircraft engines

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* Gustavus Hamilton (disambiguation), various people * Gustavus Handcock (1693–1751), Irish politician * Gustavus Adolphus Henry Sr. (1804–1880), American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Tennessee * Gustavus Hesselius (1682–1755), Swedish-American painter * Gustavus Hines (1809–1873), American missionary *

Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1923) was a chemist and natural philosopher most widely known for his findings on periodic laws within the chemical elements. Life Hinrichs was born in 1836 in Lunden in the Duchy of Hol ...

(1836–1923), chemist and natural philosopher *Gustavus Holmes, builder of the Gustavus Holmes House * Gustavus Hume (1730–1812), president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland * Gustavus Hume (British Army officer) (1826–1891), British Army soldier in the Crimean War * Gustavus Katterfelto (c. 1743–1799), Prussian conjurer, scientific lecturer, and quack * Gustavus Kelly (1901–1980), Irish cricketer *

Gustavus Town Kirby Gustavus Town Kirby (January 22, 1874 - February 28, 1956) was the president of the Amateur Athletic Union from 1911 to 1913. He was on every United States Olympic Committee from 1896 to 1956. He was chairman of the advisory committee for the ...

(1874–1956), American sports administrator who was president of the Amateur Athletic Union * Gustavus Loomis (1789–1872), U.S. Army officer * Gustavus Hindman Miller (1857–1929), prominent Tennessee merchant, manufacturer, financier, capitalist farmer, author * Gustavus Murray (1831–1887), British obstetrician * Gustavus Myers (1872–1942), American journalist and historian **

Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, earlier known as the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights or The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America or several other such variations, was an A ...

, named for the journalist **

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards were literary awards given out each year between 1985 and 2008 by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. (Both the awards and the center sometimes had different variations on ...

, named for the journalist *

Gustavus Adolphus Neumann Gustavus Adolphus Neumann was born on May 20, 1807 in Görlitz on the Neisse River, Saxony. Neumann has been labeled "one of the ablest German-American editors" of his time. His editorials dealt with, among other topics, the Americanization of t ...

(1807−1886), German-born American newspaper publisher * Gustavus A. Northcott (1861–1938), Republican President of the West Virginia Senate * Gustavus Reinhold Nyländer (1776–1825), German Lutheran missionary and linguist who worked in Sierra Leone

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* Gustavus Orr (1819–1887), early proponent of the public education system of the U.S. state of Georgia *Gustavus Pike (fl. 1880s), builder of the Gustavus and Sarah T. Pike House *Gustavus G. Prescott, Charleston merchant and builder of the Gustavus G. Prescott House * Gustavus Poznanski (1804–1879), South Carolina cantor and religious leader *

Gustavus Schmidt Gustavus Schmidt (16 June 1795 – 20 September 1877) was an American lawyer and lecturer on Civil Law at the University of Louisiana. He was the author of a number of law books and also founded the predecessor of the School of Law at Tulane U ...

(1795–1877), American lawyer and lecturer on Civil Law at the University of Louisiana *

Gustavus Scott Gustavus Scott (1753 – December 25, 1800) was an American lawyer who served in several legislative capacities in Maryland during and after the American Revolutionary War, as well as farmed in Fairfax County, Virginia, and served as on ...

(1753–1800), American lawyer who served in legislative capacities in Maryland in the American Revolutionary War *

Gustavus H. Scott Gustavus Hall Scott (13 June 1812 – 23 March 1882) was an officer in the United States Navy who served in the Second Seminole War and the American Civil War. He rose to the rank of rear admiral and late in his career was commander-in-chief of ...

(1812–1882), U.S. Navy officer * Gustavus Sessinghaus (1838–1887), U.S. Representative from Missouri * Gustavus Sidenberg (1843–1915), Jewish-American manufacturer and financier *

Gustavus Simmons Gustavus J. Simmons (born 1930) is a retired cryptographer and former manager of the applied mathematics Department and Senior Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. He worked primarily with authentication theory, developing cryptographic techni ...

(born 1930), American cryptographer * Gustavus Smith (disambiguation), various people *

Gustavus Sniper Gustavus Sniper (June 11, 1836 – March 29, 1894) was a Grand Duchy of Baden-born Union (American Civil War), Union Brevet (military)#American Civil War, brevet brigadier general during the period of the American Civil War. He received his ap ...

(1836–1894), German-born Union Army brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War * Gustavus Swan (1787–1860), Ohio lawyer and banker *

Gustavus Franklin Swift Gustavus Franklin Swift, Sr. (June 24, 1839 – March 29, 1903) was an American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death. He is credited with t ...

(1839–1903), American business executive *

Gustavus Talbot Gustavus Arthur Talbot (24 December 1848 – 16 October 1920) was a British member of parliament and a Coalition Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemel Hempstead from 1918 until his death in 1920. Talbot was bor ...

(1848–1920), British member of parliament and a Coalition Conservative politician * Gustavus Trask (1836–1914), governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor * Gustavus von Tempsky (1828–1868), Prussian adventurer, artist, newspaper correspondent, and soldier * Gustavus Waffelaert (1847–1931), 22nd bishop of Bruges in Belgium *

Gustavus Waltz Gustavus Waltz (fl. 1732–1759) was a German bass opera singer. Basing himself in England from 1732, he collaborated with Handel from 1733 when he appeared in ''La Semiramide riconosciuta'', an opera pasticcio. Like Handel, Waltz took Britis ...

(fl. 1732–1759), German bass opera singer * Gustavus Athol Waterhouse (1877–1950), Australian entomologist *

Gustavus Blin Wright Gustavus Blin Wright (June 22, 1830 – April 8, 1898) was a pioneer roadbuilder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada. His biggest achievement was building the Old Cariboo Road to the Cariboo gold fields, from Lillooet to Fort Alexandria, ...

(1830–1898), Canadian pioneer roadbuilder and entrepreneur