Gaston is a masculine

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of French origin and a surname. The name "Gaston" may refer to:

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Gaston I, Count of Foix Gaston I of Foix or Gaston VIII of Foix-Béarn (1287 – Maubuisson, 13 December 1315) was the 9th Count of Foix, the 22nd Viscount of Béarn and Co-Prince of Andorra. Biography He was a son of Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix and Margaret ...

(1287–1315) *

Gaston II, Count of Foix Gaston II of Foix-Béarn (1308 – September 1343), son of Gaston I of Foix-Béarn and Jeanne of Artois, was the 10th Count of Foix.Roland Viader, ''L'Andorre du IXe au XIVe siècle: montagne, féodalité et communautés'', (Presses du Universitair ...

(1308–1343) *

Gaston III, Count of Foix Gaston Fébus (also spelt Phoebus) (30 April 1331 – 1391) was the eleventh count of Foix (as Gaston III) and twenty-fourth viscount of Béarn (as Gaston X) from 1343 until his death. Early life Gaston was born either in Orthez or Foix, the e ...

(1331–1391) *

Gaston IV, Count of Foix Gaston IV (27 November 1422 – 25 or 28 July 1472) was the sovereign Viscount of Béarn and the Count of Foix and Bigorre in France from 1436 to 1472. He also held the viscounties of Marsan, Castelbon, Nébouzan, Villemeur and Lautrec and was ...

(1422–1472) * Gaston I, Viscount of Béarn (died circa 980) *

Gaston II, Viscount of Béarn Gaston II Centule (circa 951 – 1012) was the Viscount of Béarn from 996 to his death. He succeeded his father Centule III after the latter's assassination at the hands of Lupus the Strong, Lord of Serres. Gaston granted the village of Asson ...

(circa 951 – 1012) *

Gaston III, Viscount of Béarn Gaston III (died on or before 1045) was the Viscount of Béarn in association with his father Centule IV. His mother was Angela of Oloron. Despite the fact that he predeceased his father, Pierre de Marca proposed the hypothesis that he was associa ...

(died on or before 1045) *

Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn Gaston IV (died 1131) was viscount of Béarn from 1090 to 1131. He was called ''le Croisé––''the Crusader––because of his participation in the First Crusade as part of the army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles. (cf. also Spanish Wikipedia, Gas ...

(died 1131) * Gaston V, Viscount of Béarn (died 1170) *

Gaston VI, Viscount of Béarn Gaston VI (1173–1214), called the Good, was the Viscount of Béarn, Gabardan, and Brulhois from 1173. He was also Count of Bigorre and Viscount of Marsan through his marriage in 1196 to Petronilla, Countess of Bigorre, Petronilla, the daughter of ...

(1173–1214) *

Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn Gaston VII de Montcada ( la, Guasto de Biarde) (1225 – 26 April 1290), called ''Froissard'', was the twentieth Viscount of Béarn from 1229. He was the son and heir of Guillermo II de Montcada and of Garsenda, daughter of Alfonso II of Provence ...

(1225–1290) * Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana (1444–1470) * Gaston, Count of Marsan (1721–1743) * Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608–1660), French nobleman *

Gaston Bachelard Gaston Bachelard (; ; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of ''epistemological obstacle'' and '' epis ...

(1884–1962), French philosopher *

Gaston Balande Gaston Balande (born 1880 in Madrid, died 1971 in Paris), was a French painter and illustrator . Biography Gaston Balande learnt to draw by copying the prints and chromolithographs he saw on the market stalls at Saujon where he lived. He cle ...

(1880–1971), French painter and illustrator *

Gaston Browne Gaston Alfonso Browne (born 9 February 1967) is the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He has been its leader since 2014. Before entering politics, he was a banker and businessman. Early life Browne wa ...

(born 1967), Antiguan politician and Prime Minister *

Gaston Caperton William Gaston Caperton III (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician who served as the 31st Governor of West Virginia from 1989 to 1997. He was president of the College Board, which administers the nationally recognized SAT and AP te ...

(born 1940), American politician *

Gaston Chevrolet Gaston Chevrolet (4 October 1892 – 25 November 1920) was a French racecar driver and automobile manufacturer. Early life Born near Beaune, in the Côte-d'Or region of France where his Swiss parents had emigrated to a few years earlier, he w ...

(1892–1920), French racecar driver and automobile manufacturer *

Gaston Cornereau Gaston Cornereau (31 August 1888 – 5 July 1944) was a French fencer. He placed fourth in the individual épée competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1888 births 1944 deaths French male épée fen ...

(1888–1944), French fencer *

Gaston Couté Gaston Couté (23 September 1880 – 28 June 1911) was a French poet and singer, known for his pacifist and anarchist texts. Biography Couté was the son of a miller and went to the lycée Pothier in Orléans, but left before taking the bac ...

(1880–1911), French poet and singer * Gaston d'Orléans (1842–1922), French prince and military commander *

Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale Gaston de Foix (1448 – 25 March 1500), Earl of Kendal and Count of Benauges, was a French nobleman in the last decades of the Middle Ages. He was a cadet member of the important Foix family in Southern France. He was a son of John de Foix, 1st ...

(1448–1500), French nobleman *

Gastón de Peralta Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin and a surname. The name "Gaston" may refer to: People First name *Gaston I, Count of Foix (1287–1315) * Gaston II, Count of Foix (1308–1343) *Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391) * Gasto ...

(1510–1587), Spanish nobleman *

Gaston Defferre Gaston Defferre (14 September 1910 – 7 May 1986) was a French Socialist politician. He served as mayor of Marseille for 33 years until his death in 1986. He was minister for overseas territories in Guy Mollet’s socialist government in 1956� ...

(1910–1986), French politician *

Gaston Doumergue Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue (; 1 August 1863 in Aigues-Vives, Gard18 June 1937 in Aigues-Vives) was a French politician of the Third Republic. He served as President of France from 13 June 1924 to 13 June 1931. Biography Doumergue cam ...

(1863–1937), French politician and President *

Gastón Etlis Gastón Etlis (born 4 November 1974) is a former tennis player from Argentina. The right-hander won four career titles in doubles, and reached his highest ATP rankings of World No. 114 in singles May 2000 and World No. 17 in doubles in January ...

(born 1974), Argentinian tennis player *

Gaston Eyskens Gaston François Marie, viscount Eyskens (1 April 1905 – 3 January 1988) was a Christian democratic politician and prime minister of Belgium. He was also an economist and member of the Belgian Christian Social Party (CVP-PSC). He served thr ...

(1905–1988), Belgian politician and Prime Minister *

Gaston Flosse Gaston Flosse (born 24 June 1931) is a French politician who has been President of French Polynesia on five separate occasions. He is currently a member of the Senate of France and has been a French junior minister under Jacques Chirac. He receiv ...

(born 1931), French Polynesian politician and President *

Gaston Gallimard Gaston Gallimard (; 18 January 1881 – 25 December 1975) was a French publisher. He founded ''La Nouvelle Revue Française'' in 1908, together with André Gide and Jean Schlumberger. In 1911 the trio established La Nouvelle Revue Française. I ...

(1881–1975), French publisher *

Gastón Gaudio Gastón Norberto Gaudio (; born 9 December 1978) is an Argentine retired tennis player. He won eight singles titles and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 5 in April 2005. Gaudio's most significant title win came at the 2004 ...

(born 1978), Argentinian tennis player *

Gaston Glock Gaston Glock (born 19 July 1929) is an Austrian engineer and businessman who is the founder of the company Glock, who are best known for developing the Glock pistol in 1981. Manufacturing Glock began as a manufacturer of curtain rods in the 1960 ...

(born 1929), Austrian engineer *

Gaston Gradis Gaston Gradis (7 May 1889 – 15 January 1968) was a French businessman and explorer. He came from a wealthy family of Bordeaux shipowners. After serving as an artillery captain in World War I, he became the head of various transport and trading b ...

(1889–1968), French businessman and explorer *

Gaston Julia Gaston Maurice Julia (3 February 1893 – 19 March 1978) was a French Algerian mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set. His works were popularized by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot; the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are ...

(1893–1978), French mathematician *

Gaston Leroux Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel '' The Phantom of the Opera'' (french: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, ...

(1868–1927), French writer * Gaston Monnerville (1897–1991), French politician *

Gaston Michel Gaston Michel (1856 – November 1921) was a French silent film actor. He starred in some 40 films between 1913 and his death in 1921. He died in November 1921, in Lisbon, Portugal. Selected filmography * ''Les Vampires'' (1915) * ''Judex ...

(1856–1921), French actor *

Gaston Palewski Gaston Palewski (20 March 1901 – 3 September 1984), French politician, was a close associate of Charles de Gaulle during and after World War II. He is also remembered as the lover of the English novelist Nancy Mitford, and appears in a fiction ...

(1901–1984), French politician *

Gaston Paris Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (; 9 August 1839 – 5 March 1903) was a French literary historian, philologist, and scholar specialized in Romance studies and medieval French literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, 19 ...

(1839–1903), French writer *

Gastón Ramírez Gastón Exequiel Ramírez Pereyra (; born 2 December 1990) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for club Virtus Entella. He had spells in Uruguay with Peñarol and in Italy with Bologna before moving into ...

(born 1990), Uruguayan footballer *

Gaston Rébuffat Gaston Rébuffat (; 7 May 1921, Marseille – 31 May 1985, Paris) was a French alpinist, mountain guide, and author. He is well known as a member of the first expedition to summit Annapurna 1 in 1950 and the first man to climb all six of the ...

(1921–1985), French alpinist *Gaston Salmon (1878–1917), Belgian Olympic champion fencer *Gastón Solnicki (born 1978), Argentine film director *Gaston Thorn (1928–2007), Luxembourg politician and Prime Minister *Gaston Tong Sang (born 1949), French Polynesian politician and President

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*A. G. Gaston (1892–1996), American businessman *Bill Gaston (born 1953), Canadian writer *Cito Gaston (born 1944), American baseball player and manager *Fannie Gaston-Johansson (born 1938), American professor of nursing *Hugo Gaston (born 2000), French tennis player *Iñaki Gastón (born 1963), Spanish cyclist *Joe Gaston (born 1926), British politician *Joseph P. Gaston (1833–1913), American railroad executive *Justin Gaston (born 1988), American singer-songwriter and actor *Lloyd Gaston (1929–2006), Canadian theologian and professor *Mack C. Gaston (born 1940), Admiral United States Navy, First Black Admiral NTC Great Lakes, member of the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History *Marilyn Gaston (born 1939), American physician *Michael Gaston (born 1962), American actor *Nicola Gaston (born 1980), New Zealand scientist *Victor Gaston (born 1943), American politician *William Gaston (1778–1844), American politician and jurist *William Gaston (Massachusetts politician) (1820–1894), American politician *William H. Gaston (1840–1927), American landowner *Yves Gaston (1806–1863), French-Filipino businessman

Fictional

*Gaston Lagaffe, fictional character in the Gaston (comics), ''Gaston'' comics by André Franquin *Gaston, fictional character in Colette's 1944 novella ''Gigi (novella), Gigi'' *Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), Gaston, the main antagonist in the 1991 film ''Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), Beauty and the Beast'' and its Beauty and the Beast (2017 film), 2017 remake *Gaston the Ladybird, a fictional character in Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom *Gaston, one of the main characters from the ''Alphonse and Gaston'' comic strip *Gaston, a rabbit villager in the video game series ''Animal Crossing''

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