Gaines

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Gaines is the name of two towns in the United States:

• Gaines, New York
• Gaines, Michigan, Village of

And two townships:

• Gaines Township, Genesee County, Michigan, a civil township in which the above village is located
• Gaines Township, Kent County, Michigan, a charter township

Gaines is also the family name of:

• Brian R. Gaines (born 1938(?)) British systems scientist and engineer.
• Charles Gaines (author), Pumping Iron, Stay Hungry
• Charles Gaines, Ft. Worth, Texas fire chief
• David Gaines (composer), a musician and composer
• David Gaines (basketball player), a retired American professional basketball player
• David Gaines (race car driver), a NASCAR Limited Sportsman Division race car driver
• Edmund P. Gaines (1777–1849), United States Army officer, brother of George Strother Gaines
• Ernest J. Gaines (born 1933), African American author
• George Gaines (set decorator), Academy Award winner for Best Art Direction
• George Strother Gaines (1784–1873), American leader in the Mississippi Territory, brother of Edmund P. Gaines
• Jacques Gaines, Canadian singer, lead singer of Soul Attorneys
• Max Gaines (died 1947), pioneering American comic book publisher, father of William Gaines
• Reece Gaines (born 1981), American professional basketball player
• Roy Gaines (born 1937), American blues guitarist
• Steve Gaines (1949–1977), American musician, guitarist and songwriter for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
• William Gaines (1922–1992), American publisher of EC Comics, founder of Mad magazine
• William Gaines (professor), Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and professor of journalism