GUS
Encyclopedia
GUS or Gus may refer to one of the following.
Gus is a masculine name, or diminutive for Augustine, Augustus
, Angus
or August
, and other names (e.g., Ghassan, Gustav(e/o), Constantine).
GUS as an initialism may refer to:
Gus is a masculine name, or diminutive for Augustine, Augustus
Augustus
Augustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the Roman Republican until 45 BC, and the Julian...
, Angus
Angus (disambiguation)
-Places:Canada* Angus, Ontario, community in Essa, Ontario* East Angus, QuebecScotland* Angus, a council area* Angus * Angus United States* Angus Township, Polk County, Minnesota...
or August
August (disambiguation)
August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.August may also refer to:-Given name:*August *August , American pornographic actress...
, and other names (e.g., Ghassan, Gustav(e/o), Constantine).
- Gus AdamsGus AdamsGregory Daren "Gus" Adams is a Canadian former ice hockey winger who played in the National Hockey League from 1984 to 2001.- Playing career :...
, American ice hockey player - Gus BellGus BellDavid Russell "Gus" Bell, Jr. was an American center and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates , Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs , New York Mets and Milwaukee Braves...
, American baseball player - Gus BlackGus BlackGus Black is an American singer-songwriter/producer from Los Angeles. He signed to Almo Sounds, a subsidiary of A&M Records, and released two albums on the label, 1996's Gus and 1999's Word of Mouth Parade. He covered Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" for the Scream soundtrack...
, a singer-songwriter formerly known simply as Gus - Gus CannonGus CannonGus Cannon was an American blues musician, who helped to popularize jug bands in the 1920s and 1930s. There is doubt about his birth year; his tombstone gives the date as 1874....
, American blues musician - Gus FrerotteGus FrerotteGustave Joseph "Gus" Frerotte is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tulsa....
, American football player - Gus Goose, Donald Duck's second cousin who first appeared in the Disney short Donald's Cousin GusDonald's Cousin GusDonald's Cousin Gus is a 1939 Walt Disney cartoon in which Donald Duck is visited by his gluttonous cousin, Gus Goose, who proceeds to eat Donald out of house and home...
. - Virgil "Gus" GrissomGus GrissomVirgil Ivan Grissom , , better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot...
, Mercury/Gemini/Apollo astronaut, killed in 1967 in the Apollo 1Apollo 1Apollo 1 was scheduled to be the first manned mission of the Apollo manned lunar landing program, with a target launch date of February 21, 1967. A cabin fire during a launch pad test on January 27 at Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral killed all three crew members: Command Pilot Virgil "Gus"...
fire - Gus "The Great Dane" HansenGus HansenGustav "Gus" Hansen is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament...
, professional Danish poker player - Gus Johnson (basketball)Gus Johnson (basketball)Gus Johnson was a professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association . He spent nine seasons with the Baltimore Bullets, and a final season split between the Phoenix Suns and the Indiana Pacers of the ABA...
, American basketball player - Gus Johnson (jazz musician)Gus Johnson (jazz musician)Gus Johnson was the drummer in various jazz bands, including that of Jay McShann for many years. In the 1960s he played for saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and accompanied singer Ella Fitzgerald in her 1960 concert in Berlin...
, American jazz drummer - Gus Johnson (sportscaster)Gus Johnson (sportscaster)Augustus Cornelius "Gus" Johnson, Jr. is an American sportscaster. Formerly employed by CBS Sports, he currently calls play-by-play for Fox Sports, Showtime, the Big Ten Network and EA Sports.-Education:...
, American sports announcer - Gus MacPhersonGus MacPhersonAngus Ian MacPherson is a Scottish former football player and manager. MacPherson played for Kilmarnock for over a decade, making over 350 league appearances. After retiring as a player in 2003, he became manager of St. Mirren, a position he held until May 2010. MacPherson took St...
, manager of St Mirren F.C. - Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer
- Gus Van SantGus Van SantGus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. He is a two time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk, both of which were also nominated for Best Picture, and won the...
, American film director, photographer, musician, and author - Gus (1976 film), a Disney film of the 1970s
- Gus (2011 film)Gus (2011 film)Gus is an animated short film produced in Brisbane, Australia. It is written, directed, animated and produced by Andrew Martin. It won the Animation Prize at the Blue Mountains Film Festival, the Best Direction Award at the FirstGlance FilmFest Philadelphia, and the Best Animation Award at the...
, an animated short film - GUS the eagle, mascot of Georgia Southern UniversityGeorgia Southern UniversityGeorgia Southern University is a national public university located on a campus in Statesboro, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1906, it is part of the University System of Georgia and is the largest center of higher education in the southern half of Georgia offering 117 academic majors in a comprehensive...
in Statesboro, GAGeorgia (U.S. state)Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788... - Gus, one of the Hitchhiking Ghosts in the Disney attraction, The Haunted Mansion.
- Gus'sGus'sGus's cafe is a well-known cafe located in Civic, Canberra, Australia. It opened in 1969 and later became the first outdoor pavement cafe in Canberra. It is one of the oldest and best known cafes in Canberra and one of the first European-style cafes in Australia...
, a cafe in CanberraCanberraCanberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... - Gus's PretzelsGus's PretzelsGus' Pretzels is a pretzel bakery and snack counter in the Benton Park neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It opened in 1920, located at 1820 Arsenal Street near the Anheuser-Busch brewery. Gus' is a third generation family business. They hand-make pretzels in an open kitchen near...
, a pretzel maker in St Louis, MissouriMissouriMissouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
, USA - GusterGusterGuster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 1991, the group is known for its live performances and humor, founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel came about to begin practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford,...
, an alternative rock band formerly known as Gus - Burton GusterBurton GusterBurton "Gus" Guster is a fictional character on the USA Network television comedy Psych played by American actor Dulé Hill. He functions as the straight man for Shawn Spencer's antics, and provides sobering advice, steady support, and friendship...
, also known as Gus, a popular character in USA Network's hit tv-series PsychPsychPsych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. It stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts... - Gus, a playable character in the Crazy TaxiCrazy TaxiCrazy Taxi is a sandbox racing video game developed by Hitmaker and published by Sega. It is the first game in the Crazy Taxi series. The game was first released in arcades in 1999 and was ported to the Dreamcast in 2000. Subsequently, it was ported to the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube by...
series of arcade games. - Gus, a character from the TV series RobotboyRobotboyRobotboy is a British animated television series which is produced by French production company Alphanim with TV Channels France 3 and Cartoon Network as well as Luxanimation...
- Gus RiverGus RiverGus is a river in Vladimir and Ryazan Oblasts, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Oka River.The length of Gus River is .The names of several inhabited localities locating along the river's bank are derived from the river's name ....
- Gus Hedges, a character from the TV series Drop the Dead DonkeyDrop the Dead Donkey- Major characters :* Gus Hedges — The unctuous Chief Executive of the company, and yes-man to Sir Roysten Merchant. A management stereotype, complete with clichés and clumsy metaphors, he swiftly transforms GlobeLink from a serious news network to a ratings-chasing tabloid channel...
- Gus, the fireman from the TV series Leave It to BeaverLeave It to BeaverLeave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive but often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood...
- Gus the Theatre Cat, a character in the musical CatsCats (musical)Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...
- Gus (beatmaker/music producer from Greece)
GUS as an initialism may refer to:
- Gravis UltrasoundGravis UltrasoundGravis UltraSound or GUS is a sound card for the IBM PC compatible system platform, made by Canada-based Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd...
, a sound cardSound cardA sound card is an internal computer expansion card that facilitates the input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under control of computer programs. The term sound card is also applied to external audio interfaces that use software to generate sound, as opposed to using hardware...
for PCsIBM PC compatibleIBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to... - GUS plcGUS (retailer)GUS plc was a FTSE 100 retailing group based in the United Kingdom. GUS is an abbreviation of Great Universal Stores, the company's former name before 2001...
, a British retailing company and former owners of ArgosArgosArgos is a city and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 11 kilometres from Nafplion, which was its historic harbour...
, HomebaseHomebaseHomebase is a British home improvement store and garden centre, with 350 stores across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is well known by its green and orange colour scheme. Together with its sister company Argos , it forms part of Home Retail Group. Homebase recorded sales figures...
and ExperianExperianExperian plc, formerly known as CCN Systems, is a global credit information group with operations in 36 countries. The company employs 15,500 people with corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and operational headquarters in Nottingham, England and Costa Mesa, California, US... - Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Central Statistical OfficeCentral Statistical Office, PolandCentral Statistical Office is Poland's chief government executive agency charged with collecting and publishing statistics related to the country's economy, population and society, at both national and local levels...
, the national statistics office in PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... - Gul Ursani SchoolGul Ursani SchoolThe Gul Ursani School is situated at Qasimabad, Hyderabad, Sindh. It is a Sindhi Medium School established by Osar Foundation . The school is named after Gul Khatoon Ursani, the late mother of Mr...
, Qasimabad, Hyderabad, Sindh. - Gulder Ultimate SearchGulder Ultimate SearchGulder Ultimate Search is a Nigerian reality television series, created and sponsored by Nigerian Breweries. The first season premiered in 2004.The 2008 edition is currently aired by NTA, Nigeria.-Death of contestant:...
, a Nigerian reality show. - beta-glucuronidase, a lysosomalLysosomethumb|350px|Schematic of typical animal cell, showing subcellular components. [[Organelle]]s: [[nucleoli]] [[cell nucleus|nucleus]] [[ribosomes]] [[vesicle |vesicle]] rough [[endoplasmic reticulum]]...
enzyme - GUS reporter systemGUS reporter systemThe GUS reporter system is a reporter gene system, particularly useful in plant molecular biology. Several kinds of GUS reporter gene assay are actually available, depending on the substrate used...
(also: GUS Staining, GUS Assay) a molecular biologyMolecular biologyMolecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...
technique - Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten, the Commonwealth of Independent StatesCommonwealth of Independent StatesThe Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union....
, a modern-day political entity consisting of 11 former Soviet Union Republics - Groupes urbains de sécuritéGroupes urbains de sécuritéGroupes urbains de sécurité is a defunct Moroccan special police unit which dealt with urban matters basing on "rapid intervention approach".-Background:...
, a Moroccan police unit.