Gösta is a male given name, a variant of
Gustav.
Notable people with the name include:
People
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Gösta Alexandersson (1905–1988), Swedish actor
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Gösta Åsbrink (1881–1966), Swedish gymnast and modern pentathlete
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Gösta Andersson (skier) (1918–1979), Swedish cross-country skier
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Gösta Andersson (wrestler) (1917–1975), Swedish wrestler
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Gösta Bagge
Gösta Adolfsson Bagge (27 May 1882 – 3 January 1951) was a Sweden, Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at Stockholm University. A conservative politics, politician, he became a member of the Swedish parliament ...
(1882–1951), Swedish professor of economics and conservative politician
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Gösta Bengtsson (1897–1984), Swedish sailor
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Gösta Bernhard (1910–1986), Swedish actor, film director and screenwriter
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Gösta Bladin (1894–1972), Swedish track and field athlete
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Gösta Bohman (1911–1997), Swedish politician and the leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party
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Gösta Brodin (1908–1979), Swedish sailor
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Gösta Carlsson (1906–1992), Swedish road racing cyclist
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Gösta Cederlund
Gösta Cederlund, ''Gustaf ("Gösta") Edvard Cederlund'', (6 March 1888 – 4 December 1980) was a Sweden, Swedish actor and film director. He was a popular character actor from the 1930s to the 1950s.
He married to actress Anna-Lisa Ryding s ...
(1888–1980), Swedish actor and film director
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Gösta Danielsson (1912–1978), Swedish chess master
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Gösta Ehrensvärd
Vice Admiral Count Gösta Carl Albert Ehrensvärd (10 February 1885 – 2 November 1973) was a senior Swedish Navy officer. Ehrensvärd hailed from a distinguished naval lineage, being the son of Admiral Count Carl August Ehrensvärd. His famil ...
(1885–1973), Swedish vice admiral
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Gösta Ekman d.y. (junior), (1939–2017), Swedish actor
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Gösta Ekman (senior), Sr. (1890–1938), Swedish actor
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Gösta Engzell
Gösta Engzell (14 February 1897 – 7 March 1997) was a Swedish jurist and diplomat who is known for his activities to rescue Jews during World War II. He was the ambassador of Sweden to Finland between 1954 and 1963 and served in other diplomat ...
(1897–1997), Swedish jurist and diplomat
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Gösta Eriksson (born 1931), Swedish rower
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Gösta Eriksson (rowing) (1900–1970), Swedish rower
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Gösta Frändfors (1915–1973), Swedish wrestler
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Gösta Gärdin (1923–2015), Swedish Army officer and modern pentathlete, Olympic medalist
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Gösta Grip (1904–1998), Swedish actor
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Gösta Gustafson (1886–1963), Swedish actor
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Gösta Hallberg (1891–1978), Swedish athlete
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Gösta Hökmark (1920–1993), Swedish major general
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Gösta Holmér (1891–1983), Swedish decathlete
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Gösta Knutsson (1908–1973), Swedish radio producer and children's writer
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Gösta Krantz (1925–2008), Swedish actor and revue artist
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Gösta Larsson (1931–2006), the first recipient ever of a dental implant
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Gösta Hjalmar Liljequist
Gösta Hjalmar Liljequist (1914–1995) was a Swedish meteorologist.
In Sweden, radio broadcast weather forecasts begun in 1926, and, starting in 1941, Liljequist was one of the recurrent meteorologists appearing in Swedish radio for many years ...
(1914–1995), Swedish meteorologist
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Gösta Lilliehöök (disambiguation), several people
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Gösta Löfgren (1923–2006), Swedish footballer
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Gösta Löfgren (footballer, born 1891)
Karl Gösta Herbert "Lövet" Löfgren (29 August 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a Swedish association football player who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. Between 1951 and 1961, he p ...
(1891–1932), Finnish footballer
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Gösta Lundqvist (1892–1944), Swedish sailor
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Gösta Lundqvist (geologist)
Gösta Lundqvist (March 24, 1894 – June 30, 1967) was a Swedish geologist. Lundqvist's research was mainly focused on the Quaternary soils, but he was also a pioneer in limnology.
Biography
Adolf Gösta Lundqvist was born in Hedvig Eleonora ...
(1894–1967), Swedish geologist
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Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Magnus Gustaf "Gösta" Mittag-Leffler (16 March 1846 – 7 July 1927) was a Sweden, Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions that today is called complex analysis. He founded the pre ...
(1846–1927), Swedish mathematician
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Gösta Netzén (1908–1984), Swedish journalist and politician
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Gösta "Snoddas" Nordgren (1926–1981), Swedish entertainer (singer, actor)
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Gösta Nystroem (1890–1966), Swedish composer
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Gösta Odqvist (1913–2005), Swedish Air Force lieutenant general
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Gösta Olson (1883–1966), Swedish gymnast
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Gösta Persson (1904–1991), Swedish freestyle swimmer and water polo player
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Gösta Pettersson (born 1940), Swedish former professional road racing cyclist
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Gösta Prüzelius (1922–2000), Swedish actor
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Gösta Raquette (1896–1922), Swedish modern pentathlete
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Gösta Salén (1922–2002), Swedish sailor
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Gösta Sandahl, Swedish figure skater
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Gösta Sandberg, (1932–2006), Swedish footballer and icehockey player
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Gösta Sjöberg (1896–1968), Swedish diver
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Gösta Skoglund (1903–1988), Swedish politician
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Gösta Stoltz
Gösta Stoltz (May 9, 1904 – July 25, 1963) was a Swedish chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster. Stoltz won the Swedish championships at Halmstad 1951, Hålland 1952, and Örebro 1953. He was awarded the International Master title in 1950, and t ...
(1904–1963), Swedish chess grandmaster
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Gösta Sundqvist (1957–2003), famous Finnish musician and radio personality
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Gösta Törner (1895–1971), Swedish gymnast
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Gösta Werner
Gösta Werner (15 May 1908 – 20 July 2009) was a Swedish film director. He was married to Kaj Björkdahl. He primarily made his mark on European cinema during the 1940s. During the 1970s, Werner was first associate professor at Stockholm Unive ...
(1908–2009), Swedish film director
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Gösta Winbergh (1943–2002), Swedish tenor
*Gösta, nickname of Jostein Hakestad (born 1981), Norwegian podcaster and stand-up comedian
Fictional characters
*the title character of ''
Gösta Berling's Saga'', Selma Lagerlöf's 1891 first novel, and ''
The Saga of Gosta Berling'', a 1924 film adaptation
Notes
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Swedish masculine given names
Masculine given names