Gerald (given name)

Gerald is an English and German language masculine given name. The name also exists in French with the accent Gérald.

For name origin, see Gerald. For other uses, see Gerald (disambiguation).

People with the name include:

Politicians

• Gerald Boland, Ireland's longest-serving Minister for Justice.
• Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States
• Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, Lord Chancellor from 1964 to 1970
• Gerald Häfner, German MEP
• Gerald Klug, Austrian politician
• Gerald Lascelles (disambiguation), multiple people
• William Gerald "Jr." Morgan, a process engineer
• Gerald Nabarro, wealthy and florid British Conservative politician of the 1950s and 60s with a high public profile*
• Gerald S. McGowan, US Ambassador to Portugal
• Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, a British diplomat, soldier, and architect

Sports

• Gerald Asamoah, a Ghanaian-born German football (soccer) player
• Gerald Beverly, American basketball player
• Gerald Brown (American football), an American football coach
• Gerald Christian (born 1991), American football player & Mr. Irrelevant
• Gerald Davies, Welsh Rugby player
• Gerald Dockery, American football player
• Gerald Everett, American football player
• Gerald Green, an American NBA player
• Gerald Humphries, an English cricketer
• Gerald Laird, a baseball player
• Gerald Madkins (born 1969), American basketball player and executive
• Gerald Melzer, an Austrian tennis player
• Gerald Sensabaugh, an American football player
• Gerald Sherry, an American football player
• Gerald Wallace, an American NBA player
• Gerald Willis III (born 1995), American football player

Entertainment

• Gerald Anderson, a Filipino American actor
• Gerald Casale, a vocalist, bass guitar & synthesizer player, and a founding member of the band Devo
• Gerry Cinnamon (born Gerald Crosbie, 1985), Scottish musician
• Gerald Finzi, a British composer
• Gerald Harper (born 1929), English actor
• Gerald Haslam, an American author of books such as The Other California
• Gerald Alexander Held, German actor
• Gerald Levert (1966–2006), American R&B singer and songwriter
• Gerald Masters, a songwriter and musician
• Gérald Neveu (1921-1960), French poet
• Gerald Vizenor, a novelist, poet and critic
• Gerald "Tommy" Tomlinson, guitarist inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
• Gerald Gillum, an American rapper known as "G-Eazy".

Other fields

• Gerald Birks, a Canadian fighter ace in World War I
• Gerald W. Brown, a whistle-blower who revealed fire protection deficiencies in the US and Canadian nuclear industry
• Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times
• Gerald Cohen, a professor of social and political theory at Oxford university
• Gerald Durrell, a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter
• Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard, British aristocrat
• Gerald Murphy, the heir to the family who owned Mark Cross Company
• Gerald Ratner, former retail tycoon responsible for one of the most famous errors in corporate history
• Gerald Mayo, filed a lawsuit against Satan and his servants in United States District Court
• Gerald Sparrow (1903-1988), British lawyer, judge and travel writer
• Gerald Templer, British Army officer and military commander
• Gerald Zamponi, Canadian academic

Fictional characters

• Gerald Tippett, a character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
• Gerald Robotnik, a character from Sonic Adventures II
• Gerald Broflovski, a character from South Park
• Gerald Martin Johanssen, a character from Hey Arnold!
• Gerald, a character from the show Sid the Science Kid, whose favorite light comes from fireworks
• Gerald, a sea lion from the film Finding Dory
• Gerald McBoing Boing
• Gerald, a character from Little Lotta comics and Harvey Street Kids