Gus Meins (March 6, 1893 – August 1, 1940), born Gustave Peter Ludwig Luley, was an American film director.

[1] In the 1920s, Meins directed a number of silent short subjects film series for Universal Pictures, including the Buster Brown comedies.

Meins was found dead in his car on August 4, reportedly having committed suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide days earlier.

[3] Bizarrely, the circumstances of his death in a car from suffocation were reminiscent of the demise five years earlier of comedian Thelma Todd, whom he had frequently directed.

[1] His son Douglas Meins (1918–1987) appeared in at least seven Republic and Warner films in the late 1930s and early 1940s; he then served in the U.S. Army Corps during World War II.