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Gerald Meerschaert

Gerald "GM3" Meerschaert III (born 1987, Racine, Wisconsin) is a retired American UFC middleweight, pro record 37-23, holding the UFC middleweight record of 11 submission wins; retired October 2026 after 60 pro fights.

Oct 20, 2026

Gerald Morken

Gerald Mörken, born 1959 in Dortmund, is a retired West German breaststroke swimmer; he set the 100 m breaststroke world record (1:02.86) at the 1977 European Championships, won three European golds, two World Championship bronzes, and placed fourth in the medley relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

Oct 22, 2026

Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane is an Australian novelist born in Melbourne in 1939, known for The Plains and Border Districts and acclaimed abroad as a Nobel Prize contender.

Gerald N. Grob

Gerald N. Grob (1931–2015) was an American historian of medicine and psychiatry at Rutgers who pioneered the history of mental illness care in the United States.

Gerald N. Wogan

Gerald N. Wogan (1930–2021) was an MIT toxicologist who established aflatoxin, a mold-produced food contaminant, as a cause of liver cancer and shaped FDA aflatoxin limits.

Gerald Nadler

Gerald Nadler (1924–2014) was an American industrial engineer, professor and chair of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California, and coauthor of the 1989 book Breakthrough Thinking.

Gerald Neugebauer

Gerry Neugebauer (1932–2014) was a German-born American physicist and astronomer at Caltech who founded infrared astronomy, led the Two-Micron Sky Survey and the IRAS mission, and directed Palomar Observatory.

Oct 10, 2026

Gerald of Wales

Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald de Barry, c. 1146–1223) was a Norman-Welsh churchman and Latin writer, archdeacon of Brecon, best known for the Topographia Hibernica and his works on Wales.

Gerald P. Rodnan

Gerald P. Rodnan (1927–1983) was an American physician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, the leading authority of his era on scleroderma and originator of the Rodnan skin score.

Gerald Paul Dinneen

Gerald Paul Dinneen was an American electrical engineer and mathematician who directed MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 1977, then served as a US Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981.

Gerald Pearson

Gerald Pearson (1905–1987) was an American solid-state physicist at Bell Labs who co-invented the first practical silicon solar cell in 1954, then taught electrical engineering at Stanford.

Gerald Penn (computational linguist)

Gerald Penn is a computational linguist and professor of computer science at the University of Toronto since 2001, known for work in natural language processing and mathematical linguistics.

Gerald Pizzuto

Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr., Idaho death-row prisoner convicted in 1986 of the 1985 murders of Berta and Del Herndon; his 4-3 clemency recommendation was rejected by Governor Little, upheld on appeal, with ongoing execution-method litigation.

Gerald Posner

Gerald Posner (born 1954) is an American investigative journalist and former lawyer, author of Mengele, Case Closed (1994 Pulitzer History finalist), Killing the Dream, God's Bankers, and PHARMA; he resigned from the Daily Beast in 2010 after plagiarism findings.

Gerald R. Crabtree

Gerald R. Crabtree is a Stanford professor of pathology and developmental biology, a National Academy of Sciences member known for the calcineurin–NFAT pathway, BAF chromatin remodeling complexes in cancer, and chemically induced proximity.

Gerald R. Fink

Gerald R. Fink is an American yeast geneticist and founding member of the Whitehead Institute who first showed DNA can be taken up by yeast, making it a model eukaryote.

Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier

The Gerald R. Ford class, or CVN-21, is a class of nuclear-powered US Navy supercarriers, successor to the Nimitz class, with lead ship commissioned in 2017.

Gerald R. Smith

Gerald R. Smith is an American molecular biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who studies DNA repair by homologous recombination in E. coli and fission yeast.

Gerald Ratner

Gerald Ratner is a British jewelry retailer who built the Ratners Group into the UK's dominant jewelry chain, then lost about £500 million after a 1991 speech.

Gerald Rubin

Gerald M. Rubin is an American Drosophila geneticist and neurobiologist who co-developed P-element transgenesis, led the fly genome project, and drove mapping of the fly brain connectome.

Gerald S. Berenson

Gerald S. Berenson (1922–2018) was an American cardiologist at Tulane and LSU who founded the Bogalusa Heart Study, a biracial cohort showing atherosclerosis begins in childhood.

Gerald S. Shadel

Gerald S. Shadel is an American molecular biologist and Salk Institute professor known for showing that mitochondrial DNA released under stress acts as an antiviral signal.

Gerald Salen

Gerald Salen (1935–2020) was an American gastroenterologist and lipid metabolism researcher in New Jersey who defined cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, sitosterolemia, and Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, and pioneered chenodeoxycholic acid treatment.

Gerald Scarfe

Gerald Scarfe (born 1 June 1936, London) is an English political cartoonist and designer, Sunday Times cartoonist for 50 years, known for Pink Floyd's The Wall art, Disney's Hercules, and Yes Minister titles.

Gerald Schatten

Gerald Schatten (born 1949) is an American reproductive and developmental biologist at the University of Pittsburgh known for showing that the sperm supplies the centrosome at fertilization.

Gerald Schiffman

Gerald Schiffman, published as G. Schiffman, is an immunologist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn known for his work on antibody responses to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines.

Gerald Schubert

Gerald Schubert (1939–2025) was an American geophysicist and planetary scientist who spent his career at UCLA, modeled planetary interiors and atmospheres, and served on missions from Apollo to Juno.

Gerald Schwank

Gerald Schwank is a Swiss professor at the University of Zurich's Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology who develops CRISPR genome-editing tools to correct disease-causing mutations.

Gerald T. Keusch

Gerald T. Keusch, born 1938, is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist who directed the NIH Fogarty International Center and studied Shiga toxins and bacterial diarrheal disease.