Gerald (given name)

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

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

People with the name include:

Politicians

• Gerald Boland, Ireland's longest-serving Minister for Justice
• Gerald Ford, 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), several people
• Gerald Nabarro, British Conservative politician
• Gerald S. McGowan, US Ambassador to Portugal
• Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, British diplomat, soldier, and architect

Sports

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

Entertainment

• Gerald Anderson (born 1989), Filipino American actor
• Gerald Casale, vocalist, bass guitar & synthesizer player, Devo
• Gerry Cinnamon (born Gerald Crosbie, 1985), Scottish musician
• Gerald Finzi, British composer
• Gerald Harper (born 1929), English actor
• Gerald Haslam, American author The Other California
• Gerald Alexander Held, German actor
• Gerald Levert (1966–2006), American R&B singer and songwriter
• Gerald Masters, songwriter and musician
• Gérald Neveu (1921-1960), French poet
• Gerald Vizenor, novelist, poet and critic
• Gerald Gillum, American rapper known as "G-Eazy"

Other fields

• Gerald Birks, Canadian World War I fighter ace
• Gerald W. Brown, 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, professor of social and political theory at Oxford university
• Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter
• Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard, British aristocrat
• Gerald Murphy, American heir
• Gerald Ratner, British retail tycoon
• Gerald Mayo, filed a lawsuit against Satan and his servants in US District Court
• Gerald Shur (1933-2020), American lawyer, and the founder of the US Federal Witness Protection Program
• 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
• Gerald, a sea lion from the film Finding Dory
• Gerald McBoing Boing
• Gerald, a character from Little Lotta comics and Harvey Street Kids