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Gerald is a
masculine
Germanic given name meaning "rule of the spear" from the prefix ger- ("spear") and suffix -wald ("rule"). Variants include the
English given name
Jerrold , the
feminine
nickname
Jeri and the
Welsh language Gerallt and
Irish language Gearalt. Gerald is less common as a
surname . The name is also found in French as
Gérald .
Geraldine is the feminine equivalent.
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Given name
People with the name Gerald include:
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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 Van Woerkom , American former member of the
Michigan Legislature in both the
House and
Senate
Gerald "Boomer" Wright , American politician
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 "Dusty" Hannahs (born 1993), American basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Gerald Humphries , English cricketer
Gerald Laird , American 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 (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 Fried (1928–2023), American 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
Gerald McRaney (b. 1947), American actor
Gérald Neveu (1921-1960), French poet
Jerry Stiller (1927-2020), American actor and comedian and the father of
Ben Stiller .
Gerald Vizenor , novelist, poet and critic
Gerald Gillum , American rapper known as "G-Eazy"
Gerald Wiley, a pseudonym used by British comic actor and writer
Ronnie Barker (1929-2005)
Other fields
Gerald Ash , electrical engineer
Gerald Birks , Canadian World War I fighter ace
Gerald Bull , Canadian aerospace/artillery engineer
Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times
Gerald Cohen (1941–2009), Canadian professor of social and political theory at Oxford University, known as G. A. Cohen
Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter
Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard , British aristocrat
Gerald Friedland , American academic
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 C. Thomas , United States Marine Corpsgeneral who served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
Gerald Zamponi , Canadian academic
Fictional characters
Gerald Tippett , a character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
Gerald Robotnik , a character from Sonic Adventure 2
Gerald Broflovski , a character from South Park
Gerald Martin Johanssen , a character from Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!
Gerald, a anthropomorphic sea lion in the 2016 animated sequel film
Finding Dory
Gerald McCloy, protagonist in 1950 short film
Gerald McBoing-Boing
Gerald, a character from
Little Lotta comics and
Harvey Street Kids
Gerald O'Hara,
Scarlett O'Hara 's father in the film
Gone with the Wind
Gerald, real name of Gator, a character from
Thomas and Friends .
Surname
See also
References