Gerald (given name)
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, 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, 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 player
- Gerald Beverly, American basketball player
- Gerald Brown, an American football coach
- Gerald Christian, 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, 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, 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, Scottish musician
- Gerald Finzi, a British composer
- Gerald Harper, English actor
- Gerald Haslam, an American author of books such as The Other California
- Gerald Alexander Held, German actor
- Gerald Levert, American R&B singer and songwriter
- Gerald Masters, a songwriter and musician
- Gérald Neveu, 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, 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, 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