Gerald (given name)

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

Gerald is an English 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, the younger son of the 6th Earl of Harewood and Princess Mary
• 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 Brown (American football), an American football coach
• Gerald Dockery, American football player
• Gerald Laird, a baseball player
• Gerald Wallace, an American NBA player
• Gerald Green, an American NBA player
• Gerald Humphries, an English cricketer
• Gerald Sensabaugh, an American football player
• Gerald Sherry, an 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
• Gerald Finzi, a British composer
• 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
• Gerald Vizenor, a novelist, poet and critic

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
• 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

Fictional characters

• Gerald Tippett, a character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
• Gerald Robotnik, a character from Sonic Adventures II