Gau or GAU may refer to:

People

Gaugericus Saint Gaugericus, in French Saint Géry (also known as Gorik, Gau; in Walloon, Djèri) ( 550 – August 11, 619) was a bishop of Cambrai, France. Biography He was born to Roman parents, Gaudentius and Austadiola, at ''Eposium'' (present ...

(–626), Bishop of Cambrai * Gau Ming-Ho (born 1949), Taiwanese mountaineer *

Franz Christian Gau Franz Christian Gau (15 June 1790, in Cologne – January 1854, in Paris) was a French architect and archaeologist of German descent. In 1809 he entered the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and in 1815 visited Italy and Sicily. In 1817 he went t ...

(1790–1854), German architect and archaeologist * James Gau (born 1957), Papua New Guinean politician * Michael Gau, Taiwanese political office-holder * Susan Shur-Fen Gau (born 1962), Taiwanese psychiatrist

Places

Gäu In the south German language (of the Alemannic-speaking area, or in Switzerland), a ''gäu'' landscape (''gäulandschaft'') refers to an area of open, level countryside. These regions typically have fertile soils resulting from depositions of loess ...

, name of the South German loess landscapes * ''Gau'' (territory), German term for a shire (regional administration) * An

Administrative division of Nazi Germany The ''Gaue'' (singular: ''Gau'') were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The ''Gaue'' were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional districts in Weimar Germany based on the territorial changes after the Fir ...

Gäu (Baden-Württemberg) The '' gäu'' landscapes of Baden-Württemberg are sparsely wooded cultural landscapes that have evolved on the South German Scarplands between the Black Forest, the Stromberg and Heuchelberg in the west, and the Swabian Jura and Swabian Keuper ...

, a region in the southwest German state of Baden-Württemberg *

Gaū, Iran Gu (, also Romanized as Gū; also known as Gao, Gaow, Gaū, Gāv, and Gāveh) is a village in Kambel-e Soleyman Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Isl ...

, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province * Gäu District, district of Solothurn, Switzerland *

Gau Island Gau (, also known as Ngau in English) is an island belonging to Fiji's Lomaiviti archipelago. Located at 18.00° S and 179.30 °E, it covers an area of , with a total shoreline that measures long, making it the fifth largest island in the Fijian ...

, an island in Fiji * Gau Airport *

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport , or Guwahati Airport, is an international airport serving the List of cities in Assam, largest city of Assam and the capital of the state within it, Guwahati and Dispur, in India. It is the pri ...

(IATA code: GAU), in Guwahati, Assam, India

Schools

Georgetown American University Georgetown American University is a private healthcare-oriented university in Georgetown, Guyana established in 2013. The first students enrolled in June 2014, and their first graduation was 2018. Accreditation GAU is registered with the Nation ...

, in Guyana *

Girne American University Girne American University () is the first private university in Northern Cyprus. The university was founded in 1985 by Serhat Akpınar with the name of University College of Northern Cyprus (UCNC) as an affiliated campus of Southeastern Univers ...

, in Northern Cyprus *

Gujarat Ayurved University Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda (ITRA) Jamnagar, Gujarat, India which was founded in 1967. It has a joint campus with, an Institute of National Importance, established in 2020. History In 1940, the erstwhile royal family of Na ...

, in India *

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ...

(German: '), in Germany

Other uses

* Gau (''Final Fantasy VI''), a character in ''Final Fantasy VI'' * GAU, a codon for the amino acid

aspartic acid Aspartic acid (symbol Asp or D; the ionic form is known as aspartate), is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. The L-isomer of aspartic acid is one of the 22 proteinogenic amino acids, i.e., the building blocks of protei ...

Gouais blanc Gouais blanc () or Weißer Heunisch () is a white grape variety that is seldom grown today but is important as the ancestor of many traditional French and German grape varieties. The name ''Gouais'' derives from the old French adjective ‘ ...

, a French wine grape *

Enfariné noir Enfariné noir (or Gouais noir) is a red French wine grape variety that is grown predominantly in the Jura wine region of eastern France. Despite being known under the synonym ''Gouais noir'' in the Aisne, Aube, Marne, Meuse and Seine-et-Marne d ...

, a French wine grape *

General Assistance Unemployable The Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is Washington's social services Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. A ...

, a Washington state unemployment program * Kondekor, a variety of the

Ollari language The Ollari language (also known as Pottangi Ollar Gadaba, Ollar Gadaba, Ollaro, Hallari, Allar, Hollar Gadbas) is a Central Dravidian language. A closely related variety is Kondekor (also known as Gadaba, San Gadaba, Gadba, Sano, Kondekar, Kond ...

with ISO 639-3 code ''gau'' * Gau, a Cantonese vulgar word * '' Glavnoe Artilleriyskoe Upravlenie'', a division of the Russian military that played a significant role in the

history of radar The history of radar (where radar stands for ''radio detection and ranging'') started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. This possibility was suggested in ...

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