Famous People with Name Gustaf

Gustaf J. Carlsson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Gustaf J. Carlsson: was an Swedish football (soccer) player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Swedish team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament.

Gustaf Johan Billberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Gustaf Johan Billberg: a Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist.

Gustaf Erik Pasch            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Gustaf Erik Pasch: was a Swedish inventor and professor of chemistry at Karolinska institute in Stockholm and inventor of the safety match. He was born in Norrköping, the son of a carpenter. He enrolled at Uppsala University in 1806 and graduated with a masters degree in 1821. Pasch is mostly known for the safety match, but he was also involved with making waterproof concrete for the Göta Canal, manufacture of bank notes and growing of silk worms.[1] He married Augusta Fredrika Vilhelmina Berg in 1827.[2]The safety matches were mainly the work of two Swedish chemists; Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who invented the modern chemical notation, discovered that the dangerous white phosphorus in matches could be replaced with the more benign red phosphorus, but wasn't able to produce a match reliable enough for everyday use. Gustaf Erik Pasch, a student of Berzelius,

Gustaf Nyholm            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Gustaf Nyholm: was a Swedish chess master.In 1907 he took 6th in Copenhagen (6th Nordic-ch, Paul Leonhardt won). In 1909 he took 2nd, behind Joel Fridlizius, in Göteborg (7th Nordic-ch, B tournament). In 1912 he took 11th in Stockholm (8th Nordic-ch, Alexander Alekhine

Gustaf Adolf Tenggren            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Gustaf Adolf Tenggren: was a Swedish illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.