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Gustavo Nunes

Gustavo Nunes (Gustavo Nunes Fernandes Gomes), Brazilian winger born 2005, Grêmio academy product sold to Brentford in August 2024 for €12m plus 20% sell-on; later loaned to Swansea City.

Gustavo Palacios

Gustavo F. Palacios is an Argentine virologist and molecular epidemiologist, Professor of Microbiology at Mount Sinai since 2021, known for pathogen discovery during outbreaks, including a new transplant-transmitted arenavirus.

Gustavo Petro

Gustavo Petro (Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego), Colombian economist, ex-M-19 guerrilla, senator, and Bogotá mayor, was president 2022-2026, Colombia's first leftist head of state; known for Total Peace, fossil-fuel phase-out pledges, and severed Israel ties.

Gustavo Rivas-Mijares

Gustavo Rivas-Mijares (1922–2014) was a Venezuelan civil engineer specializing in water supply, sewerage, and wastewater treatment, who taught at the Central University of Venezuela and led IVIC.

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was a Colombian general who seized power in a 1953 coup and ruled as the country's only twentieth-century military dictator until 1957.

Gustavo Sainz

Gustavo Sainz (Gustavo Sainz Jormor) was a Mexican novelist and essayist of the La Onda movement, best known for his debut novel Gazapo (1965), which sold 34,000 copies in under two years.

Gustavo Santana

Gustavo Santana (Gustavo Domingos Santana), Brazilian forward born 2005 in Santos, plays for São Paulo FC; ex-Santos, São Bernardo, Cuiabá; 2025 Copa do Brasil Sub-20 winner, first pro goal August 2026.

Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla (born 1951) is an Argentine composer, producer, and ronroco player, two-time Oscar winner for Brokeback Mountain and Babel, producer of Café Tacuba and Juanes, and composer of The Last of Us.

Gustavo Thoeni

Gustavo Thoeni (Gustav Thöni), born 1951 in Trafoi, Italy, is a retired alpine ski racer who won four overall World Cups (1971-73, 1975), Olympic giant slalom gold at Sapporo 1972, and five world titles, later coaching Alberto Tomba.

Gustavo Turecki

Gustavo Turecki is a Canadian clinician-scientist who studies the neurobiology of depression and suicide, chairing Psychiatry at McGill and directing the Douglas Research Centre in Montreal.

Gustavs Zemgals

Gustavs Zemgals was a Latvian lawyer and statesman who served as the second President of Latvia from 1927 to 1930, and chaired the 1918 declaration of independence.

Gustavus Adolphus

Gustavus Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf), 1594–1632, king of Sweden from 1611: founder of the Swedish bureaucratic state, victor of Breitenfeld, killed at Lützen, and center of the military revolution debate.

Gustavus Franklin Swift

Gustavus Franklin Swift (1839 to 1903) was an American meat packer who founded Swift & Company in Chicago, pioneering refrigerated railcars and a nationwide fresh-meat distribution system.

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919–2000) was a Polish writer, essayist, and literary critic, a major figure of émigré literature best known for A World Apart, his account of imprisonment in Soviet labor camps.

Guster

Guster is an American alt-rock band formed in 1991 at Tufts University as Gus, from Massachusetts; founders Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, and Brian Rosenworcel, plus Luke Reynolds, have released nine albums including Lost and Gone Forever and Ooh La La.

Gustilo open fracture classification

Gustilo-Anderson classification: the standard 1976, 1984-modified grading of open fractures into Types I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IIIC by wound size, soft tissue damage, contamination, and vascular injury, guiding antibiotics and debridement.

Gusto (company)

Gusto, founded in 2011 as ZenPayroll and rebranded in 2015, is a San Francisco company providing payroll, benefits, and human resources software used by more than 500,000 small businesses.

GUSTO study

GUSTO (Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes) is Singapore's largest birth cohort study, recruiting about 1,450 pregnant women from 2009 to 2010 at KKH and NUH and following mother-child pairs to study early-life origins of metabolic and neurodevelopmental health.

Gusttavo Lima

Gusttavo Lima, stage name of Nivaldo Batista Lima, is a Brazilian sertanejo singer and businessman born in 1989 whose 2011 hit "Balada" made him famous in Brazil and abroad.

Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu

The Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (琉球王国のグスク及び関連遺産群) is a World Heritage property of nine sites on Okinawa Island, Japan, inscribed in 2000.

Gusztav Kettesy

Gusztav Kettesy (Kettesi Gusztáv, born Kreiker, 1929-2003), Hungarian swimmer; first world and European record holder in the 400 m individual medley (5:38.7 and 5:32.1, 1953, unofficial), 1952 Olympian, 12-time Hungarian champion.

Gusztav Szepesi

Gusztav Szepesi (Szedunka), Hungarian football defender, 1939–1987. Olympic gold medalist at Tokyo 1964 with Hungary; 5 caps; marked Garrincha in Hungary's 3:1 win over Brazil at the 1966 World Cup; long career with Tatabányai Bányász.

Gut Genug

Gut Genug is a 2026 German song by KitschKrieg, Blumengarten, and Shirin David. It reached No. 1 in Germany and became a viral phenomenon on TikTok.

Gut microbes

Gut microbes: the bacteria, archaea, viruses, and fungi of the gastrointestinal tract, over 3,000 human gut bacterial species, involved in digestion, immunity, obesity, IBD, diabetes, and studied via sequencing and HMA animal models.

Gut microbiota

Gut microbiota (gut flora, gut microbiome): the roughly 50-trillion-member microbial community of the human intestine, encoding about 3.3 million genes, producing SCFAs and other metabolites, studied via the NIH Human Microbiome Project, and targeted by FDA-approved fecal microbiota therapies for C. difficile.

Gut–brain axis

Gut–brain axis (microbiota–gut–brain axis): bidirectional communication network linking the central and enteric nervous systems and gut microbiota via vagal, HPA-axis, immune, and metabolite signaling; studied in IBS and neuropsychiatric disease.

Gutai Art Association

The Gutai Art Association (具体美術協会, Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai) was a Japanese avant-garde artist group founded around painter Jiro Yoshihara in Ashiya in 1954, known for radical experiments with materials.

Gutalax

Gutalax is a Czech goregrind band from Křemže formed in 2009, led by vocalist Maty, known for toilet-humor lyrics, pig-squeal vocals, and albums Shit Beast, Shit Happens!, and The Shitpendables.

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (GZSZ) is Germany's first daily soap opera, airing on RTL weekdays at 19:40 since 11 May 1992, adapted from Australia's The Restless Years, produced by UFA Serial Drama in Potsdam-Babelsberg, and set in a fictional Berlin neighborhood.

Gutenberg Bible

The Gutenberg Bible, also called the 42-line or Mazarin Bible, is the first substantial book printed in Europe from movable metal type, produced by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz around 1455.