Gustavo is the Latinate form of a Germanic male given name with respective prevalence in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.

It is derived from Gustav /ˈɡʊstɑːv/, also spelled Gustaf, a Swedish name, likely from Slavic Gostislav.

People with the name

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Drama, film and television

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  • Gustavo Alatriste, Mexican actor, director, and producer of films, married to Silvia Pinal
  • Gustavo Aguerre (born 1953), Argentine artist, curator, writer, and theatre designer
  • Gustavo Sorola, American actor, podcast host, and co-founder of the American company, Rooster Teeth

Engineering, religion and science

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  • Gustavo Colonnetti (1886–1968), Italian mathematician and engineer
  • Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino (born 1928), Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology at the University of Notre Dame
  • Gustavo Tamayo, Colombian ophthalmologist
  • Gustavo Marín, Chilean-French economist and sociologist
  • Gustavo Scuseria (born 1956), Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Professor of Materials Science & NanoEngineering at Rice University

Music

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Military and politics

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Sports

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Writing

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Other professions

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Fictional characters

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See also

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