Gott
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Gott is a German language
word meaning god
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Gott is an Icelandic
and Swedish
word meaning good
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Gott is the surname of:
Gott may also refer to:
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
word meaning god
God
God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
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Gott is an Icelandic
Icelandic language
Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...
and Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
word meaning good
Good
Good may refer to:* Good and evil - The distinction between positive and negative entities* Good - Objects produced for market* Form of the Good - Plato's macrocosmic view of goodness in living* Good...
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Gott is the surname of:
- Samuel GottSamuel GottSamuel Gott was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England between 1645 and 1648 and between 1660 and 1661....
(1614–1671), MP for Winchelsea - Benjamin GottBenjamin GottBenjamin Gott was one of the leading figures in the industrial revolution, in the field of textiles. His factory at Armley Mills, Armley, Leeds, was once the largest factory in the world and is now home to the Armley Mills Industrial Museum.Gott was born in Calverley, Pudsey in West Yorkshire,...
(1762–1840), British textile manufacturer - Daniel GottDaniel GottDaniel Gott was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Hebron, near New London, Connecticut, Gott attended the public schools.At the age of sixteen taught school.He moved to Pompey, New York, in 1817.He studied law....
(1794–1864), U.S. Representative from New York - John William GottJohn William GottJohn William Gott was the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy. A trouser salesman from Bradford, he led the Freethought Socialist League.In 1911, Gott was sentenced to four months in jail for publishing attacks on Christianity...
(1866–1922), the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy - William GottWilliam GottLieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott CB, CBE, DSO and bar, MC , nicknamed "Strafer", was a British Army officer during both the First and Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general when serving in the British Eighth Army.-Military career:Educated at Harrow School he was...
(1897–1942), known as "Strafer", British General of the Second World War in the Middle East - Richard GottRichard GottRichard Willoughby Gott is a British journalist and historian, who has written extensively on Latin America...
(born 1938), British journalist and historian - Karel GottKarel GottKarel Gott is a Czech Schlager singer, and an amateur painter. He is considered as the most successful male singer in former Czechoslovakia and currently in the Czech Republic; he has being voted the Most Favorite Male Singer in the annual national pool Český slavík in total thirty-six times...
(born 1939), Czech singer - J. Richard GottJ. Richard GottJohn Richard Gott III is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. He is known for developing and advocating two cosmological theories with the flavor of science fiction: Time travel and the Doomsday argument.- Exotic matter time travel theories :Paul Davies's bestseller How...
(born 1947), U.S. astrophysicist - Larry GottLarry GottLarry Gott is an English musician, primarily of the Mancunian band, James. He is also a designer.-Music:...
(born 1957), British musician - Jim GottJim GottJames William Gott , is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the major leagues from 1982-1995.Fourth round pick, June draft, of St. Louis Cardinals in 1977....
(born 1959), U.S. baseball player
Gott may also refer to:
- Gott, Shetland, a village in the Shetland IslandsShetland IslandsShetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain. The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total...
- GottschalksGottschalksGottschalks was a middle-tier American department store that operated 58 department stores and three specialty apparel stores in six western states ; some locations ran as Harris-Gottschalks stores...
, whose stock symbol on the Pink Sheets was GOTT but now is GOTTQ