List of Famous people named Gavin

Gavin Wood is a British computer programmer, co-founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot. He invented Solidity and wrote the Yellow Paper specifying the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Wood served as the Ethereum Foundation's first chief technology officer. After leaving Ethereum in 2016, he co-founded Parity Technologies, which develops core infrastructure for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Zcash and Polkadot.

Gavin Richard Harrison is an English musician. He is best known for playing with the progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree, King Crimson and The Pineapple Thief. Harrison's drumming has received many awards from music publications and earned praise from other musicians.

Gavin Steel Strang is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 1970 until 2010. He served as a minister in the 1974–79 Labour government under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, as well as in the Cabinet under Tony Blair. By the time of his retirement at the 2010 general election, he was the longest serving Scottish MP.

Gavin O'Connor is an Irish actor who has had roles in TV series such as Charlie, The Tudors, Single Handed and films including Dorothy Mills (2008), The Front Line (2006), Headrush (2003) and This Is My Father (1998), This Must Be The Place (2011) and Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008).