All articles starting with G

Gustav Noske

Gustav Noske (1868–1946), German SPD politician and first Reichswehr minister of the Weimar Republic; the 'bloodhound' who suppressed the 1919–20 left-wing uprisings with Freikorps, resigned after the Kapp Putsch, later Oberpräsident of Hannover.

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Gustav Nossal

Gustav Nossal, born 1931, is an Austrian-born Australian immunologist who showed that one immune cell produces one antibody and directed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne from 1965 to 1996.

Gustav Schafer

Gustav Schäfer (Gustav August Schäfer), German rower (1906–1991), 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist in single sculls, first German Olympic sculling champion; 1934 European champion; later German Olympic Society co-founder.

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Gustav Schonfeld

Gustav Schonfeld (1934–2011) was a Czechoslovakia-born American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, internationally known for research on apolipoprotein B, cholesterol, and heart disease prevention.

Gustav Schuft

Gustav Schuft (Fritz Richard Gustav Schuft, 1876–1948), German gymnast from Berlin; won two team gold medals (parallel bars, horizontal bar) for Germany at the 1896 Athens Olympics, unplaced individually.

Gustav Schwab

Gustav Schwab, full name Gustav Benjamin Schwab, was a German writer, pastor, and Stuttgart Gymnasium teacher known for his retelling of Greek myths, Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Alterthums.

Gustav Schwarzenegger

Gustav Schwarzenegger (17 August 1907 – 13 December 1972), Austrian police chief and Gendarmerie commander at Thal, father of Arnold Schwarzenegger; Nazi Party applicant of 1938, SA member from May 1939, and Feldgendarmerie master sergeant in the Wehrmacht, with no war crimes found against him.

Gustav Stickley

Gustav Stickley (1858–1942) was an American furniture designer and publisher who led the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States, known for his Craftsman oak furniture.

Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929), German statesman, DVP founder and leader, Weimar chancellor August–November 1923 and foreign minister 1923–1929; architect of Locarno, League of Nations entry, and 1926 Nobel Peace Prize with Briand.

Gustav Suits

Gustav Suits (1883–1956) was an Estonian poet and scholar who led the Noor-Eesti movement, wrote the symbolist collection Tuulemaa (1913), and became the first professor of Estonian literature, dying in exile in Stockholm.

Gustav Sundbärg

Gustav Sundbärg (1857–1914) was a Swedish statistician and actuary at the central bureau of statistics, the first professor of statistics at Uppsala University, whose revised counts remain the basis of Swedish official statistics.

Gustav Thaulow

Gustav Thaulow (1875–1942) was a Norwegian engineer and sailor who won Olympic gold in the 12-meter class aboard the yacht Magda IX at the 1912 Stockholm Games.

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born (1921–2018) was a British pharmacologist who invented the platelet aggregometer, discovered that ADP makes platelets aggregate, and helped establish aspirin for preventing heart attacks and strokes.

Gustav von Hüfner

Gustav von Hüfner (1840–1908) was a German chemist, professor of organic and physiological chemistry at Tübingen from 1875, remembered for determining hemoglobin's oxygen-binding capacity, the Hüfner number.

Gustav von Sydow

Gustav von Sydow is a Swedish venture capital investor and serial founder, a Partner at EQT Ventures in New York since 2024 after co-founding the advertising-data startup Burt.

Gustav Wagner

Gustav Franz Wagner (1911–1980), Austrian SS-Oberscharführer, deputy commandant and quartermaster of Sobibor death camp, absent during the 1943 uprising; fled to Brazil, identified 1978 by survivor Szmajzner, extradition denied by Brazilian courts, died officially by suicide in 1980, never tried.

Gustav Warneck

Gustav Warneck (1834–1910) was a German Protestant theologian who founded missiology as an academic discipline, holding Germany's first professorship for the field at the University of Halle from 1896.

Gustav Weder

Gustav Weder (Gusti), born 1961 in Diepoldsau, is a retired Swiss bobsleigh pilot, double Olympic two-man gold medalist (1992, 1994) with Donat Acklin, five-time world champion, and later a Swiss HR executive with a Göttingen Ph.D.

Gustav Wied

Gustav Wied, full name Gustav Johannes Wied, was a Danish author and dramatist (1858 to 1914) whose satire attacked the church, the nobility, and bourgeois morality.

Gustav Wilhelm Schimmelpenning

Gustav Wilhelm Schimmelpenning (1928–2009) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who described Schimmelpenning syndrome, also called Feuerstein-Mims syndrome, in 1957 and directed university clinics at Kiel from 1971 to 1994.

Gustav Zander

Gustav Zander (1835–1920) was a Swedish physician who developed mechanotherapy, treating disease and injury with adjustable exercise machines, and opened his first institute in Stockholm in the 1860s.

Gustav-Heinemann-Friedenspreis für Kinder- und Jugendbücher

The Gustav-Heinemann-Friedenspreis für Kinder- und Jugendbücher, or Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for Children's and Young Adult Books, is an annual German prize for books promoting peace and civil courage.

Gustave (crocodile)

Gustave is a large Nile crocodile of the Rusizi River delta and Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, estimated at about 6 m and blamed for dozens to about 300 deaths since 1987; his size and toll are disputed.

Gustave Bémont

Gustave Bémont was a French chemist and head of experimental studies at ESPCI Paris, remembered as co-signatory with Pierre and Marie Curie of the 1898 note announcing radium.

Gustave Caillebotte

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) was a French Impressionist painter, collector, and patron, known for Paris Street; Rainy Day and The Floor Scrapers, and for the Caillebotte bequest that forms the core of the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist collection.

Gustave Choquet

Gustave Choquet (1915–2006) was a French mathematician who created capacity theory and the Choquet integral, and proved the integral representation theorem for compact convex sets, publishing more than 160 articles.

Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), French painter and leader of Realism; born Ornans, died La Tour-de-Peilz. Known for A Burial at Ornans, the 1855 Pavilion of Realism, palette-knife impasto, and imprisonment after the 1871 Paris Commune.

Gustave Doré

Gustave Doré, full name Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré, was a French illustrator, painter, and sculptor (1832–1883), famed for illustrated editions of Dante, Cervantes, and Milton.

Gustave Eiffel

Gustave Eiffel, born Alexandre Gustave Bonickhausen, was a French civil engineer famous for the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Paris World's Fair, and the Statue of Liberty's inner structure.