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Gasser can mean: * Gasser (manga), a fictional character also known as Heppokomaru *
Gasser (car) A gasser is a type of hot rod car originally used for drag racing. This style of custom car build originated in United States in the late 1950s and continued until the early 1970s. In the days before Pro Stock, the A/Gas cars were the fastest sto ...
, a certain style of hot rod * Hungarian or Montenegrin Gasser pistols, e.g.:
Gasser M1870 The Gasser M1870 was a revolver chambered for 11.3×36mmR and was adopted by the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry in 1870. It was an open-frame model, with the barrel unit attached to the frame by a screw beneath the cylinder arbor. The arbor pin was sc ...
* Someone who or something that gasses in its various meanings ** e.g. see The Mad Gasser of Mattoon * Someone with red hair or who has bleached and straightened his hair to an orange reddish tint using gasoline. ** Used in the 1940 novel ''
Native Son ''Native Son'' (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing f ...
'' by Richard Wright and ''Durango Street'' (1976) by Frank Bonham


People

* Adolf Gasser (1903–1985), Swiss historian *
Elsa Gasser Elsa Felicya Gasser-Pfau (6 June 1896 – 25 August 1967) was a Polish-born Swiss economist. After earning a PhD in Zürich in 1921, she settled in the city working as a journalist for the ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung''. From the early 1930s, she beca ...
(1896–1967), Polish-born Swiss economist * Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888–1963), American physiologist * Hans Gasser (1817-1868), Austrian painter and sculptor * (1723–1765), Austrian anatomist * Joseph Gasser von Valhorn (1816–1900), Austrian sculptor, brother of Hans *
Josh Gasser Joshua Patrick Gasser (born February 13, 1992) is a former American basketball player who last played with Löwen Braunschweig of Germany's Basketball Bundesliga. Gasser played college basketball for the Wisconsin Badgers. Gasser is one of only ...
(born 1992), American basketball player * Lucien Gasser (1897-1939), French World War I flying ace *
Mark Gasser Mark Gasser (born 6 July 1972) is a British concert pianist. Career Gasser was born in Sheffield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1972 to Austrian and Scottish parents. He studied with John Humphreys at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, ...
(born 1972), British concert pianist *
Nolan Gasser Nolan Ira Gasser (born November 10, 1964) is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist. He was the chief musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc. and the architect of the Music Genome Project, the proprietary musical analysis system that un ...
(born 1964), American composer, pianist, musicologist * Sandra Gasser (born 1962), retired Swiss track and field athlete * Susan M. Gasser, Swiss biologist


See also

* Surnames of South Tyrolean origin Surnames of Austrian origin German toponymic surnames {{disambig, surname