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People with the name Gaunt

  • Elizabeth Gaunt
    Elizabeth Gaunt
    Elizabeth Gaunt , was an English woman sentenced to death for treason after having been convicted for involvement in the Rye House Plot. She was the last woman to have been executed for a political crime in England....

     (d. 1685), convicted traitor
  • John of Gaunt (1340-1399), English prince
  • Jon Gaunt
    Jon Gaunt
    Jonathan Charles Gaunt , is an English radio talk show presenter, TV Personality, newspaper columnist, social commentator and spokesman....

     (born 1961), British radio presenter and newspaper columnist, late 20th and early 21st century
  • Maurice de Gaunt
    Maurice de Gaunt
    Maurice de Gaunt was the founder of Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire, England. He began the construction circa 1225 without royal licence, and completed the project in 1229 with the granting of a licence for the final crenellation. Beverston Castle was further enlarged in the mid...

     (fl. 1225), founder of Beverston Castle
  • Nathan Gaunt
    Nathan Gaunt
    Nathan Gaunt is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter. His debut EP, Nothingwomb, was released in 1999. His style is an eclectic mix of rock, pop, blues, and folk. Along with vocals, Gaunt plays a variety of instruments including the guitar and piano.-Early life:Gaunt was born in Darwin,...

     (living), an Australian singer-songwriter
  • Ernest Gaunt
    Ernest Gaunt
    Admiral Sir Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt KBE , a native of Australia, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the Western Approaches.-Naval career:...

     (1865-1940), British admiral
  • Guy Gaunt
    Guy Gaunt
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     (1870-1953), British admiral

Fictional characters

  • Gaunt is a playable character from the video game Quake III Arena
    Quake III Arena
    Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly...

    's expansion pack Quake 3 Team Arena
  • Leland Gaunt, the antagonist in the Stephen King
    Stephen King
    Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

     novel, Needful Things
    Needful Things
    Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by American author Stephen King. According to the cover, it is "The Last Castle Rock Story." However, the town later served as the setting for the short story "It Grows on You," published in King's 1993 collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes which, according to...

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  • The House of Gaunt, a wizard family in the Harry Potter
    Harry Potter
    Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

    book series
  • Nightgaunt
    Nightgaunt
    Nightgaunts are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos and is also part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. The creatures appear in the poem "Night-Gaunts" and the novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, both by Lovecraft...

    , a fictional race created by H. P. Lovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft
    Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

  • In Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science fantasy universe. Warhammer 40,000 was created by Rick Priestley in 1987 as the futuristic companion to Warhammer Fantasy Battle, sharing many game mechanics...

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    • The Gaunt's Ghosts
      Gaunt's Ghosts
      Gaunt's Ghosts is a series of novels written by Dan Abnett. It is a military science fiction series set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe....

      book series
      • Ibram Gaunt, an Imperial Guard officer and main character of the above series
      • Gaunt's Ghosts, the colloquial name for the Tanith First-and-Only regiment
    • Gaunt, term used to describe two Tyranid units; Termagaunts and Hormagaunts
  • Edward Gaunt, a character from Robert Holdstock
    Robert Holdstock
    Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction....

    's book, Lavondyss
    Lavondyss
    Lavondyss also titled Lavondyss: Journey to an Unknown Region is the second fantasy novel of the Mythago Wood series written by Robert Holdstock. Lavondyss was originally published in 1988...

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  • John Gaunt, eponymous protagonist of Grimjack
    GrimJack
    Grimjack is the main character of a comic book originally published by First Comics. John Ostrander and Timothy Truman are credited as co-creators of the character, although Ostrander had been developing Grimjack with artist Lenin Delsol before Truman's arrival on the project...


Other

  • Gaunt's formula, a mathematical formula dealing with associated Legendre polynomials
  • Gaunt (band)
    Gaunt (band)
    Gaunt was a pop punk band formed in Columbus, Ohio, in 1991. The original lineup formed from the ashes of the short-lived and punkadelic Black Juju, and consisted of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Jerry Wick, bassist Eric Barth and drummer Jeff Regensburger...

    , a punk rock band from Ohio
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