Gaster (surname)
Gaster is a German surname. The Dictionary of American Family Names (2003) suggests that it may be a derivation from Gast "guest". There were 918 entries in the US white pages for this name as of 2013, the largest number (221 entries) in North Carolina.[1] In Germany, there were 95 entries as of 2008.[2]
Notable bearers of the name include:
- Jack Gaster (1907–2007), British communist solicitor and politician. son of Moses Gaster
- Jean-Paul Gaster (born 1971), American drummer
- Michael Gaster, British aerospace engineer
- Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Romanian-born British rabbi and scholar
- Ronald Gaster, U.S. born Ophthalmologist; expert in refractive surgery
- Theodor Gaster (1906–1992), British-born American Biblical scholar, son of Moses Gaster
References
This page lists people with the surname Gaster.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.