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Gerald T. Orlob

Gerald T. Orlob (1924–2013) was an American environmental engineer and UC Davis professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for water quality modeling.

Gerald T. Perkoff

Gerald T. Perkoff (1926–2011) was an American physician and health services researcher, a University of Missouri professor elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1978.

Gerald Tait

Gerald Tait (Thomas Gerald Tait, 1866-1938) was a Scottish sailor and Girvan solicitor who won 1908 Olympic gold in the 12-metre class as crew of Hera, racing for the Royal Clyde Yacht Club.

Gerald Templer

Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer (1898–1979) was a British Army officer who led the campaign against the Malayan Emergency from 1952 and coined "hearts and minds".

Gérald Tenenbaum

Gérald Tenenbaum, born 1952 in Nancy, is a French mathematician specializing in analytic and probabilistic number theory, known for work on divisors, friable integers, and his standard graduate textbook.

Gerald Tinker

Gerald Tinker (born 1951, Miami) is an American sprinter and NFL wide receiver who won 1972 Munich Olympic gold in the 4x100m relay, running third leg on the 38.19 world-record US team, then played for the Falcons and Packers.

Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor, born 1934 in Minneapolis, is an Anishinaabe writer and professor emeritus at Berkeley who has written over 40 books and coined the concept of survivance.

Gerald W. Dorn

Gerald W. Dorn, also known as Gerald W. Dorn II, is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies how genes affect heart failure drug response.

Gerald W. Hart

Gerald W. Hart is an American glycobiologist who discovered O-GlcNAcylation in 1983 and led biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins before joining the University of Georgia.

Gerald W. Smetana

Gerald W. Smetana is an American general internist and Harvard Medical School professor known for preoperative pulmonary risk stratification, including a 1999 NEJM review and a 2006 ACP systematic review.

Gerald W. Zamponi

Gerald Zamponi is a neuroscientist at the University of Calgary whose research on voltage-gated calcium channels and chronic pain made him a Royal Society of Canada Fellow.

Gerald Wallace

Gerald Wallace (born 1982, Sylacauga, Alabama) is a retired NBA forward, 2001 draft pick 25th overall by Sacramento, 2010 All-Star and All-Defensive First Team with Charlotte Bobcats, steals leader in 2006.

Gerald Washington (boxer)

Gerald "El Gallo Negro" Washington, American heavyweight boxer born 1982 in San Jose; Navy veteran and USC football player who turned pro at 30, went 18-0-1, and lost a 2017 WBC title fight to Deontay Wilder by fifth-round TKO.

Gerald Weissmann

Gerald Weissmann (1930–2019) was an Austrian-born American physician-scientist at New York University who codiscovered and named liposomes, advanced lysosome research, and founded its rheumatology division.

Gerald Yass

Gerald Yass was a certified public accountant and business executive who helped his son Jeffrey Yass start Susquehanna International Group in 1987, working there until his death at 94 in 2024.

Gerald's Game

Gerald's Game is Stephen King's 1992 psychological horror novel (Viking) about Jessie Burlingame, handcuffed to a bed after her husband dies during a sex game; companion to Dolores Claiborne, adapted by Mike Flanagan for Netflix in 2017.

Gerald's Game (film)

Gerald's Game (2017) is Mike Flanagan's Netflix psychological horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1992 novel, starring Carla Gugino as Jessie, handcuffed to a bed after her husband dies during a sex game; 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Geraldine Brooks (born 1955) is the Australian-American author and former Wall Street Journal correspondent who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for March; her novels include Year of Wonders, People of the Book, and Horse (2022), based on the racehorse Lexington. Not the Vancouver psychologist Geraldine S. Brooks.

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin, born 1944 in Santa Monica, is an American actress, eldest child of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill. Known for Doctor Zhivago, her Carlos Saura films including Cría cuervos, Nashville, and playing her grandmother in Chaplin (1992).

Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Anne Ferraro (1935–2011), Queens congresswoman and prosecutor, was the first woman nominated for U.S. vice president by a major party, Walter Mondale's 1984 Democratic running mate and the first Italian American on a major ticket.

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913-2005) was an Irish-born actress and stage director, Oscar-nominated as Isabella in Wuthering Heights (1939), later a Broadway O'Neill interpreter, Handel Medallion-winning Everyman theater founder, and Arthur (1981) grandmother.

Geraldine Hakewill

Geraldine Hakewill (born 1987, Paris) is an Australian actor, producer, and singer-songwriter, a WAAPA graduate known as Chelsea Babbage in Wanted, Peregrine Fisher in Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries, and the voice of grown-up Bluey.

Geraldine Hamilton

Geraldine A. Hamilton is a British cell biologist and toxicologist who formerly served as President and Chief Scientific Officer of Emulate, Inc., the Boston company commercializing human Organs-on-Chips.

Geraldine Heaney

Geraldine Heaney (born 1967, Lurgan, Northern Ireland) is an Irish-born Canadian ice hockey defenceman; seven World Championship golds, 1998 Olympic silver, 2002 Olympic gold, IIHF and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee.

Geraldine James

Geraldine James, OBE, English actress born 1950 in Maidenhead; known for The Jewel in the Crown, Band of Gold, Gandhi, Sherlock Holmes, Anne with an E, and the 2026 stage premiere of 45 Years.

Geraldine Jones (character)

Geraldine Jones, Flip Wilson's drag alter ego on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and The Flip Wilson Show (NBC, 1970-74), a sassy Black woman character famous for "The devil made me do it" and "What you see is what you get."

Geraldine L. Richmond

Geraldine L. Richmond is an American physical chemist at the University of Oregon known for laser studies of water surfaces, who served as Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy from 2021 to 2025.

Geraldine McEwan

Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown, 1932–2015), British stage and television actress; BAFTA winner for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and ITV's Miss Marple (2004–2009), distinct from actress Angela McEwan.

Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page (1924–1987), American Method actress born in Kirksville, Missouri; Tennessee Williams heroine in Summer and Smoke and Sweet Bird of Youth; eight Oscar nominations, winning Best Actress for The Trip to Bountiful at the 1986 ceremony.

Géraldine Seydoux

Géraldine Seydoux is a French-born American developmental biologist at Johns Hopkins and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, known for showing that transcriptional repression establishes the germline.