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Gustav Burton
Gustav (Gus) Burton, British racing driver born 2002 in Southend, Essex; competes in Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, with a 2026 debut win at Norisring.
Gustav de Vries
Gustav de Vries (1866–1934) was a Dutch mathematician and Haarlem schoolteacher whose 1894 doctoral thesis gave explicit form to the Korteweg–de Vries equation, later central to soliton theory.
Gustav E. Lienhard
Gustav E. Lienhard (1938–2026) was an American biochemist and longtime Dartmouth professor who traced how insulin signals cells to take up glucose via the transporter GLUT4.
Gustav Ehrhart
Gustav Ehrhart (1894–1971) was a German chemist who led I.G. Farben's pharmaceutical-scientific laboratories and, with Max Bockmühl, achieved the first synthesis of methadone, a heroin-substitute analgesic.
Gustav Embden
Gustav Embden (1874–1933) was a German physiological chemist who, as professor at the University of Frankfurt from 1914, developed liver perfusion and proposed the first coherent scheme for glycolysis, the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway.
Gustav Falke
Gustav Falke (1853–1916) was a German poet and writer from Lübeck, a leading poet-impressionist whose lyric verse, Hamburg novels, and children's books were set to music by composers including Richard Strauss and Arnold Schönberg.
Gustav Flatow
Gustav Felix Flatow (1875–1945), German Jewish gymnast, won 1896 Olympic gold in team parallel bars and team horizontal bar; placed =102 at Paris 1900; died in Theresienstadt.
Gustav Freij
Gustav Freij (Karl Gustav Herbert Freij, 1922–1973), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler of IK Sparta, Malmö; Olympic gold 1948, silver 1952, bronze 1960 at 67 kg, world champion 1953, creator of the Sparta style.
Gustav Frenssen
Gustav Frenssen (1863–1945) was a German novelist and former Lutheran pastor whose Dithmarschen peasant novels, especially Jörn Uhl (1901), made him one of Germany's most-read writers.
Gustav Freytag
Gustav Freytag (1816–1895), German novelist, dramatist, and journalist of Die Grenzboten; author of Soll und Haben, Die Journalisten, Die Ahnen, and Die Technik des Dramas, source of Freytag's pyramid.
Gustav Friedrich von Oehler
Gustav Friedrich von Oehler (1812–1872) was a German Lutheran theologian, ordinary professor of Old Testament theology at Tübingen from 1852, known for his posthumous Theologie des Alten Testaments.
Gustav Fritsch
Gustav Theodor Fritsch (1838–1927) was a German anatomist and anthropologist who, with Eduard Hitzig, published the first experimental demonstration in 1870 that electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex produces movement.
Gustav Goelitz
Gustav Goelitz (1845–1901) was a German immigrant candy maker who founded a confectionery in Belleville, Illinois, in 1869, the business that became the Jelly Belly Candy Company.
Gustav Hasford
Gustav Hasford (1947-1993), American novelist and Marine combat correspondent; wrote The Short-Timers (1979), basis of Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, plus The Phantom Blooper and A Gypsy Good Time; shared an Oscar nomination for the screenplay.
Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902–1982) was a German-Dutch geologist and vertebrate paleontologist who discovered key Homo erectus fossils at Sangiran, Java, and named Gigantopithecus blacki.
Gustav Heinrich Tammann
Gustav Heinrich Tammann (1861–1938) was a Baltic German physical chemist and metallurgist at Göttingen, counted among the founders of metallography and the science of metals.
Gustav Herglotz
Gustav Herglotz (1881–1953) was a German mathematician and astronomer, professor at Leipzig and Göttingen, known for the Herglotz–Wiechert seismic inversion, relativity, and the Herglotz representation theorem.
Gustav Hertz
Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck for experiments confirming discrete atomic energy levels.
Gustav Holst
Gustav Holst (Gustavus Theodore von Holst, 1874-1934), British composer from Cheltenham, taught at St Paul's Girls' School and Morley College; his astrological seven-movement suite The Planets (1914-16) overshadows his Sanskrit-texted, folk-influenced output.
Gustav III
Gustav III (1746–1792), King of Sweden 1771–1792; staged the 1772 'Swedish Revolution' ending the Age of Liberty, passed the Union and Security Act 1789, won Svensksund 1790, and was shot by Anckarström at the Stockholm Opera masquerade on 16 March 1792.
Gustav Jirikowski
Gustav Jirikowski is a neuroanatomist and neuroendocrinologist whose 1992 experiment at Scripps reversed diabetes insipidus in rats with injected vasopressin mRNA, cited by the 2023 Nobel Assembly.
Gustav Killian
Gustav Killian (1860–1921) was a German laryngologist who performed the first bronchoscopy in 1897, removing a bone from a patient's bronchus, and is called the father of bronchoscopy.
Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824 to 1887) was a German physicist whose circuit laws govern electrical networks, and who with Robert Bunsen founded spectrum analysis and discovered caesium and rubidium.
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), Austrian symbolist painter and first president of the Vienna Secession; known for the golden phase works The Kiss and the Beethoven Frieze and the University of Vienna Faculty Paintings scandal.
Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer (1870–1919), German-Jewish anarchist writer and editor of Der Sozialist, theorist of communal libertarian socialism, founder of the Sozialistischer Bund, and People's Commissioner in the 1919 Munich council republic, murdered after its suppression.
Gustav Leopold Plitt
Gustav Leopold Plitt (1836–1880) was a German Lutheran church historian and professor of theology at Erlangen, known for his two-volume Einleitung in die Augustana and a popular Luther biography.
Gustav Lexau
Gustav Lexau, German swimmer and water polo player, won gold in the 200 m team swimming at the 1900 Paris Olympics with Deutscher Schwimm Verband Berlin and placed fifth in water polo with Germany.
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Austrian composer and conductor of ten symphonies and major song cycles; Vienna Court Opera director 1897–1907, New York Philharmonic conductor, posthumous mid-1960s revival led by Leonard Bernstein.
Gustav Meyrink
Gustav Meyrink, born Gustav Meyer, was an Austrian writer and former banker best known for the occult novel Der Golem (1915), set in Prague's former Jewish ghetto.
Gustav Mie
Gustav Mie was a German physicist who in 1908 published the exact solution for light scattering by spheres, taught at Greifswald, Halle, and Freiburg, and retired in 1935.