Gaster (surname)
This article is about the surname. For other uses, see Gaster (disambiguation).
Gaster is a German surname. The Dictionary of American Family Names (2003) suggests that it may be a derivation from Gast "guest". There were 918 entries in the US white pages for this name as of 2013, the largest number (221 entries) in North Carolina.[1] In Germany, there were 95 entries as of 2008.[2]
Notable bearers of the name include:
- Jack Gaster (1907–2007), British communist solicitor and politician. son of Moses Gaster
- Jean-Paul Gaster (born 1971), American drummer
- Michael Gaster, British aerospace engineer
- Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Romanian-born British rabbi and scholar
- Theodor Gaster (1906–1992), British-born American Biblical scholar, son of Moses Gaster
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