List of Famous people named Gustav

Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century. In 2016, a BBC Music Magazine survey of 151 conductors ranked three of his symphonies in the top ten symphonies of all time.

Gustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman who served as chancellor in 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929, during the Weimar Republic.

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objects d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.

Gustav Schröder was a German sea captain who in 1939 attempted to save 937 German Jews, who were passengers on his ship, MS St. Louis, from the Nazis.

Gustav Knuth was a German film actor. He appeared in 128 films between 1935 and 1982 and starred in the TV series Alle meine Tiere. He was married to the actress Elisabeth Lennartz.

Gustav Schwarzenegger was an Austrian police chief, postal inspector and a military police officer. He was the father of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Gustav Noske was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the first Minister of Defence (Reichswehrminister) of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske has been a controversial figure because although he was a member of the socialist movement, he used army and paramilitary forces to bloodily suppress the socialist/communist uprisings of 1919.

Gustav Kleikamp was a German naval officer, and a Vizeadmiral in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.

German supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Germany who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 59 German supercentenarians, being 49 residents and 10 emigrants. There are currently at least 6 Germans known to be alive over age 110. The oldest of them is Josefine Ollmann, born 11 November 1908, aged 112 years, 227 days and living in Schleswig-Holstein. Augusta Holtz, an emigrant to the United States, remains the oldest German citizen whose age has been validated: she lived 115 years and 79 days, from 1871 to 1986.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner for his work on inelastic electron collisions in gases, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.