List of Famous people named Gustave

Similar names: Gustav, Gustavo, Gusztav. Here are some famous Gustaves:

Gustave Eiffel

Alexandre Gustave Bonickhausen dit Eiffel
First Name Gustave
Born on December 15, 1832
Died on December 27, 1923 (aged 91)

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit viaduct. He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty in New York. After his retirement from engineering, Eiffel focused on research into meteorology and aerodynamics, making significant contributions in both fields.

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Gustave Flaubert

First Name Gustave
Died on May 8, 1880
Born in France, Normandy

Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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Gustave de Kervern

First Name Gustave
Born in Mauritius

Gustave Kervern, also known as Gustave de Kervern and Gustave K/Vern, is a French actor, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with Benoît Delépine.

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Gustave Caillebotte

First Name Gustave
Born on August 19, 1848
Died on February 21, 1894 (aged 45)

Gustave Caillebotte was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an art form.

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Gustave Courbet

First Name Gustave
Born on June 10, 1819
Died on December 31, 1877 (aged 58)

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.

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Gustave Whitehead

First Name Gustave
Born on January 1, 1874
Died on October 10, 1927 (aged 53)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Gustave Albin Whitehead was an aviation pioneer who emigrated from Germany to the United States where he designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines between 1897 and 1915. Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in 1901 and 1902, predating the first flights by the Wright Brothers in 1903.

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Gustave F. Perna

First Name Gustave
Born on April 15, 1960 (age 63)

Gustave F. Perna is a United States Army four-star general who serves as the chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed. As chief operating officer, he oversees the logistics in the United States federal government's search for a vaccine to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Senate confirmed his nomination as chief operating officer on July 2, 2020, and he assumed the office shortly after.

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Gustave Verbeek

Gustave Verbeck
First Name Gustave
Born on August 29, 1867
Died on December 5, 1937 (aged 70)

Gustave Verbeek was a Dutch-American illustrator and cartoonist, best known for his newspaper cartoons in the early 1900s featuring an inventive use of word play and visual storytelling tricks.

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Gustave Fraipont

First Name Gustave
Born on May 9, 1849
Died on April 29, 1923 (aged 73)

Gustave Fraipont was a painter, sculptor, illustrator and poster-designer. Born in Belgium, he later became a naturalised French citizen.

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Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré
First Name Gustave
Died on January 23, 1883
Born in France, Grand Est

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving.

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