Gump
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Gump or Gumps may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Forrest Gump, an American romantic comedy-drama film based on a novel by Winston Groom
- The Gump, a fictional character from the Oz series of books
- The Gumps, a popular comic strip (1917-1959) by Sidney Smith
- The Gumps (radio) (1931-1937), a radio sitcom based on the comic strip
- "Gump", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the album Bad Hair Day
- Gump, a 1991 album by Sons of Freedom
- Gump, an elf in Legend (1985 film)
Other uses
[edit]- Apache Gump, an open source continuous integration system
- Gump's, a luxury American home furnishings and décor retailer founded in 1861
- WGMP, a radio station licensed to Montgomery, Alabama, branded as "104.9 The Gump"
- Guiana United Muslim Party, a former political party in Guyana
- GUMPS, a widely used acronym used by airplane pilots as a check-list
- Gump (died 2014), the last known Christmas Island forest skink
People
[edit]- David Ariail (1910–2001), American college football player nicknamed "Gump"
- Guy Cantrell (1904–1961), American Major League Baseball pitcher nicknamed "Gump"
- Gump Worsley (1929–2007), National Hockey League goaltender, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Carissa Gump (born 1983), American weightlifter
- Scott Gump (born 1965), American golfer
- Frederick Gump (c. 1897-?), 19-year-old kidnapped, sexually assaulted and beaten by Harry Kendall Thaw, the latter better known for fatally shooting Stanford White
- Gump brothers, German murder suspects
See also
[edit]- Johannes Gumpp (born 1626), Austrian painter