What is "angus"

masc. proper name, Scottish, related to Irish Aonghus, a compound that may be rendered in English as "one choice." Also the name of a county in Scotland, hence a breed of cattle (1842) associated with that region.

Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross. Main industries include agriculture and fishing. Global pharmaceuticals company GSK has a significant presence in Montrose in the north of the county.

Angus was historically a county, known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928. It remains a registration county and a lieutenancy area. In 1975 its administrative functions were transferred to the council district of the Tayside Region, and in 1995 further reform resulted in the establishment of the unitary Angus Council.

Angus is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Patrick Read Johnson and written by Jill Gordon. The majority of it was filmed in Owatonna, Minnesota at the Owatonna Senior High School. It stars Charlie Talbert and James Van Der Beek in their first film roles, as well as Chris Owen, Ariana Richards, and Academy Award winners George C. Scott, Kathy Bates, and Rita Moreno. The film is based on the short story A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune by Chris Crutcher, which is collected in his book Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories.

Angus is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system.

It was created for the 1997 general election, largely replacing East Angus. As a result of boundary changes for the 2005 general election, boundaries are now quite different from those of the Angus Scottish Parliament constituency, which was created in 1999.

The constituency is dominated by farmland, and includes the towns of Arbroath, Montrose, Brechin and Forfar.

Angus is a traditional province of Scotland and modern council area.

Aengus is an Irish god.

Angus may also refer to:

Angus was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it was one of nine constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

From the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, Angus was expanded and ultimatey split into two separate constituencies; Angus North and Mearns and Angus South

Angus is a masculine given name in English. It is an Anglicised form of the Irish and Scottish Gaelic Aonghas, which is composed of Celtic elements meaning "one", and "choice". A variant spelling of the Scottish Gaelic name is Aonghus. The Irish form of the Scottish Gaelic name is Aengus. A pet form of the given name Angus is Angie, pronounced "an-ghee", which represents the Scottish Gaelic Angaidh. A short form of the given name Angus is Gus, which may be lengthened to Gussie. The feminine form of Angus is Angusina.

The earliest form of the given name Angus, and its cognates, occurs in Adomnán's Vita Columbae (English: "Life of Columba") as Oinogusius, Oinogussius. This name likely refers to a Pictish king whose name is recorded variously as Onnust, Hungus. According to historian Alex Woolf, the early Gaelic form of the name, Oengus, was borrowed from the British Pictish Onuist, which appears in British as Ungust. Woolf noted that these names are all derived from the Celtic *Oinogustos. Linguist John Kneen derived this name from two Celtic elements the following way: *Oino-gustos, meaning "one-choice". Woolf also stated that between about AD 350 and AD 660, the Insular Celtic dialects underwent changes which included the loss of the final syllables and unstressed vowels, which affected *Oinogustos thus: *Oinogustos.

Angus is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Brooke Angus, American beauty contestant
• Charlie Angus (born 1962), Canadian politician
• Colin Angus (explorer), Canadian author and explorer
• Colin Angus (musician) (born 1961), British musician
• W. David Angus (born 1937), Canadian politician
• Derek Angus (born 1938), New Zealand politician
• Geoff Angus (born 1948), Australian football player
• George Angus, Australian football player
• Graeme Angus (born 1971), English cricketer
• Harry James Angus (born 1982), Australian musician
• Henry Angus (1891–1991), Canadian lawyer
• Ian Angus (disambiguation), multiple people
• Iain Angus (born 1947), Canadian politician
• Jack Angus (disambiguation), multiple people
• James Stout Angus, Scottish writer
• John Angus (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kristi Angus (born 1971), Canadian actress
• Michael R. Angus (1930–2010), British businessman
• Nikitta Angus (born 1988), British musician
• Peggy Angus (1904–1993), British artist
• Richard B. Angus (1831–1922), Canadian railroad financier
• Rita Angus (1908–1970), New Zealand painter
• Ron Angus (born 1956), Canadian judo champion and coach
• Samuel Angus (1881–1943), Australian theologian
• Samuel F. Angus, American baseball executive
• Stevland Angus (born 1980), English football player
• Terry Angus (born 1966), English football player
• Tom Angus (1934–1988), English cricketer
• William Angus (disambiguation), multiple people
• Winfield Angus, American football coach