Gerald (given name)

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

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

People with the name include:

Politicians

• 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
• 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 Davies, Welsh Rugby player
• Gerald Dockery, American football player
• Gerald Green, an American NBA player
• Gerald Humphries, an English cricketer
• Gerald Laird, a baseball player
• Gerald Melzer, an Austrian tennis player
• Gerald Sensabaugh, an American football player
• Gerald Sherry, an American football player
• Gerald Wallace, an American NBA player

Entertainment

• Gerald Anderson, a Filipino American actor
• Gerald Casale, a vocalist, bass guitar & synthesizer player, and a founding member of the band Devo
• Gerald Finzi, a British composer
• Gerald Harper (born 1929), English actor
• Gerald Haslam, an American author of books such as The Other California
• Gerald Levert, a late R&B singer
• 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
• 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 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 sealion from the film Finding Dory