Gaston

Gaston is a male French name. It may also refer to:

Places:

• Gaston, California
• Gaston, Oregon
• Gaston, South Carolina
• Gaston County, North Carolina
• A variant spelling of Gastun, present-day Bagras, a Crusader castle in Turkey

People:

• Cito Gaston, former Major League Baseball player and manager
• William Gaston, jurist and United States Representative from North Carolina
• William Gaston (Massachusetts), 19th century Governor of Massachusetts
• William H. Gaston, one of the founders of Dallas, Texas, and a Confederate soldier
• Yves Leopold Germain Gaston, 19th century French sugar baron in the Philippines
• Gaston, comte d'Eu, French prince and military commander
• Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale, French nobleman
• Gastón de Peralta, marqués de Falces, viceroy of New Spain
• Gaston Defferre, French politician and publisher
• Gaston Doumergue, French politician, President of France 1924-31
• Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French nobleman
• Gastón Etlis, Argentinian tennis player
• Gaston Flosse, four-time President of French Polynesia
• Gastón Gaudio, Argentinian tennis player
• Gaston Glock, creator of Glock pistols
• Gaston Julia, French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set
• Gaston Leroux, French writer and author of The Phantom of the Opera
• Gaston Michel, French silent film actor
• Gaston Rébuffat, French alpinist
• Gaston Salmon, Belgian Olympic champion épée fencer
• Gaston Thorn, Luxembourgian politician, a former Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1974-79) and President of the European Commission (1981-85)
• Gaston Tong Sang, current President of French Polynesia
• Gheorghe Gaston Marin, Romanian politician
• Jean Gaston Darboux, French mathematician

Animals:

• Gaston (seal), a famous seal that escaped Prague Zoo during the flood 2002

In fiction:

• Gaston (comics), Belgian comic strip by André Franquin featuring Gaston Lagaffe
• Gaston, character in Colette's 1944 novella Gigi
• Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), the name of the hunter and villain in Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast

Other:

• Gaston (climbing), the climbing technique named after Gaston Rébuffat
• Gaston College, a community college in North Carolina
• Hurricane Gaston
• Tropical Storm Gaston (2010)