Gavin Wanganeen is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), and also for the Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).A Brownlow Medal winner and Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Wanganeen was appointed Port Adelaide's inaugural captain upon entry into the AFL in 1997 and is the first Indigenous Australian footballer to win the Brownlow Medal and reach the 300-game milestone at senior VFL/AFL level. Since retirement, Wanganeen has taken up painting. He is a descendant of the Kokatha people, a Western Desert people of South Australia, an inheritance he has explored in his art work since retirement. He has had two solo exhibitions and was an ambassador for the Adelaide Fringe in 2019.
Gavin Tonge is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler and has represented the West Indies cricket team in One Day International and Test cricket, as well as playing first-class cricket for Antigua and Leeward Islands.
Gavin Packard (1964 – 2012) was an Indian actor of Irish American descent, noted for the villainous roles he portrayed in many Bollywood films of the 1990s like Sadak, Mohra, Tadipaar and Chamatkar. He had also acted in several Malayalam films like Aayushkalam, Season, Aanaval Mothiram and Aryan.
Gavin Escobar (1991 – 2022) was an American football tight end who played for five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and a season in the Alliance of American Football (AAF). He played for the Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Ravens from 2013 to 2017, after having played college football for the San Diego State Aztecs.
Sir Gavin de Beer, FRS (1899 – 1972), was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book Embryos and Ancestors. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and a winner of the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.
I really can’t believe, reading through this, no one has mentioned the British comedy series “Gavin and Stacey”. When I think of the name Gavin all I think of is the Male eponymous protagonist in it.
Gavin James is an Irish singer-songwriter. In March 2013 and March 2016, he won the Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year award. James was born in Dublin and grew up in a household surrounded by music. James' dad would play Cat Stevens, Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan whilst his sister Emma sang and toured with a musical in Ireland. James' great-grandparents were opera singers and his grandfather was a stand-up comedian and whistler.
Gavin McInnes is a British-Canadian writer, actor, comedian, and conservative commentator currently living in the USA.
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Gavin Free, English slow-motion cinematographer and creator of the Slow-Mo Guys YouTube channel. He currently works as a personality with Rooster Teeth in Austin TX.
I really like this name, although it reminds me of the recent tragedy of Sherri, Gavin and Garrett Coleman who's father killed them in their own beds.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Gavin MacLeod, the Captain on The Love Boat. He was also on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I could never name my son Gavin because I'd constantly have The Love Boat theme song running through my head. "Love, exciting and new... Come aboard... We're expecting you..."
The singer of the modern rock group Bush is named Gavin Rossdale. (He is currently married to Gwen Stefani of No Doubt.)
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Gavin is the name of one of the knights of the round table. It's a somewhat common name and one of the people who share this name is the singer "Gavin Degraw."
A Brownlow Medal winner and Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Wanganeen was appointed Port Adelaide's inaugural captain upon entry into the AFL in 1997 and is the first Indigenous Australian footballer to win the Brownlow Medal and reach the 300-game milestone at senior VFL/AFL level. Since retirement, Wanganeen has taken up painting. He is a descendant of the Kokatha people, a Western Desert people of South Australia, an inheritance he has explored in his art work since retirement. He has had two solo exhibitions and was an ambassador for the Adelaide Fringe in 2019.