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Gerald Heikes

Gerald Heikes is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Alaska's November 2026 election, a retired teacher and drywall contractor from Palmer who ran for U.S. House in 2024.

Gerald Henry Rendall

Gerald Henry Rendall (1851–1945) was an Anglican clergyman and classical, biblical, and Shakespearean scholar who served as first Principal of University College, Liverpool, and as Head Master of Charterhouse from 1897 to 1911.

Gerald Hocker

Gerald Hocker is an American Republican politician who served in the Delaware House from 2002 to 2012 and has represented the 20th Senate District since 2012, leading the Senate's Republican minority since 2018.

Gerald I. Shulman

Gerald I. Shulman is an American physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who pioneered magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study glucose and fat metabolism in living humans.

Gerald J. Gleich

Gerald J. Gleich is an American allergist and immunologist known for his research on eosinophils and for Gleich's syndrome, named after him; he led laboratories at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Utah.

Gerald J. Lieberman

Gerald J. Lieberman (1925–1999) was an American industrial engineer and statistician, a Stanford professor known for sampling inspection and reliability research and for the standard textbook Introduction to Operations Research.

Gerald J. Meyer

Gerald J. Meyer is an American chemist at UNC-Chapel Hill known for research on electron transfer in dye-sensitized solar cells and director of the DOE solar hub CHASE since 2020.

Gerald J. Pappert

Gerald J. Pappert, born 1963, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2014, appointed by Barack Obama, who previously served as Pennsylvania attorney general.

Gerald J. Wasserburg

Gerald J. Wasserburg (1927–2016) was an American isotope geochemist at Caltech whose isotopic measurements of meteorites and lunar samples established a time scale for the early solar system.

Gerald Jay Sussman

Gerald Jay Sussman is an MIT computer scientist who co-invented the Scheme programming language in 1975 and coauthored Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, the "Wizard Book."

Gerald Jerry Fishman

Gerald Jerry Fishman, known as Jerry Fishman, is an American NASA astrophysicist born in 1943 who led the BATSE gamma-ray burst experiment and shared the 2011 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

Gerald Joyce

Gerald F. Joyce is an American biochemist and origin-of-life researcher who is President of the Salk Institute, known for in vitro evolution and the first DNA enzymes.

Gerald Klatskin

Gerald Klatskin (1910–1986) was an American hepatologist at Yale School of Medicine known for the Klatskin tumor, a bile duct cancer at the hepatic duct bifurcation.

Gerald Klerman

Gerald L. Klerman (1928–1992), American psychiatrist, co-developer of interpersonal psychotherapy with Myrna Weissman, designer of the NIMH TDCRP, ADAMHA administrator 1977–1980, and coiner of "neo-Kraepelinian".

Gerald L. Andriole

Gerald L. Andriole is an American urologic oncologist who led the PLCO prostate cancer screening trial and the REDUCE prevention trial, and was chief of urologic surgery at Washington University.

Gerald L. Hazelbauer

Gerald L. Hazelbauer is an American biochemist known for his research on bacterial chemotaxis in E. coli and a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri.

Gerald L. Kulcinski

Gerald L. Kulcinski is an American nuclear engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, director of its Fusion Technology Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.

Gerald L. Logue

Gerald L. Logue was an American hematologist and professor of medicine who led the University at Buffalo's hematology division from 1982 until his death in 2015, aged 73.

Gerald L. Mandell

Gerald Lee Mandell (1936–2023) was an American infectious diseases physician-scientist at the University of Virginia who founded its infectious diseases division and edited the specialty's standard textbook.

Gerald Levert

Gerald Levert (1966-2006), American R&B singer-songwriter and son of O'Jays frontman Eddie Levert; led the trio LeVert ("Casanova"), the supergroup LSG with Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill ("My Body"), and won a posthumous 2008 Grammy for "In My Songs."

Gerald Litwack

Gerald Litwack (1929–2023) was an American biochemist known for the 1971 ligandin discovery and for editing Vitamins and Hormones; he last taught at Texas A&M Health Science Center.

Gerald M. Edelman

Gerald M. Edelman (1929–2014) was an American immunologist and neuroscientist who determined the chemical structure of antibodies, sharing the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gerald M. Pohost

Gerald M. Pohost is an American physician-scientist in nuclear cardiology and cardiovascular MRI, known for pioneering thallium-201 imaging of ischemia and a professor at USC since 2001.

Gerald M. Reaven

Gerald M. Reaven, also known as G. M. Reaven, was an American physician-scientist at Stanford who established insulin resistance's role in disease and coined Syndrome X.

Gerald Mahan

Gerald Mahan (1937–2021) was an American condensed matter physicist who predicted the x-ray edge singularity, shaped thermoelectrics theory, and wrote the graduate textbook Many-Particle Physics.

Gerald Malloy

Gerald Malloy is an American politician and retired United States Army officer who won the August 2026 Republican primary for Vermont's at-large U.S. House seat and will face incumbent Becca Balint.

Gerald Maurice Clemence

Gerald Maurice Clemence (1908–1974) was an American astronomer in celestial mechanics who worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory and Yale, best known for his theory of the motion of Mars.

Gerald McClellan

Gerald McClellan, "The G-Man", American middleweight world champion (WBO 1991, WBC 1993), 31-3 with 20 first-round KOs, permanently blinded and disabled by brain injury in his 1995 loss to Nigel Benn.

Gerald McCoy

Gerald McCoy Jr. (born 1988), NFL defensive tackle drafted third overall by Tampa Bay in 2010; six straight Pro Bowls (2012-17), 2013 first-team All-Pro, 59.5 career sacks; retired April 2023, now an NFL Network analyst.

Gerald McRaney

Gerald Lee McRaney (born 1947, Collins, Mississippi) is an American TV and film actor, star of Simon & Simon, Major Dad, and Promised Land, later a character actor in Deadwood and House of Cards, and 2017 Emmy winner for This Is Us.