Gau or GAU may refer to: People Gaugericus (–626), Bishop of Cambrai Gau Ming-Ho (born 1949), Chinese mountaineer Franz Christian Gau (1790–1854), German architect and archaeologist James Gau (born 1957), Papua New Guinean politician Michael Gau, Taiwanese political office-holder Susan Shur-Fen Gau (born 1962), Taiwanese psychiatrist Places Gäu, name of the South German loess landscapes Gau (territory), German term for a shire (regional administration) An Administrative division of Nazi Germany Gäu (Baden-Württemberg), a region in the southwest German state of Baden-Württemberg Gaū, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province Gäu District, district of Solothurn, Switzerland Gau Island, an island in Fiji Gau Airport Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (IATA code: GAU), in Guwahati, Assam, India Schools Georgetown American University, in Guyana Girne American University, in Northern Cyprus Gujarat Ayurved University, in India University of Göttingen (German: ), in Germany Other uses Gau (Final Fantasy VI), a character in Final Fantasy VI GAU, a codon for the amino acid aspartic acid Gouais blanc, a French wine grape Enfariné noir, a French wine grape General Assistance Unemployable, a Washington state unemployment program Kondekor, a variety of the Ollari language with ISO 639-3 code gau Gau, a Cantonese vulgar word Glavnoe Artilleriyskoe Upravlenie, a division of the Russian military that played a significant role in the history of radar See also Gau Mata, a sacred cow in Hinduism