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Gerard Butler filmography

Gerard Butler filmography: Scottish actor's screen career from Mrs. Brown (1997) through 300, the How to Train Your Dragon voice role, the Has Fallen series, and mid-budget action thrillers to Greenland 2: Migration (2026).

Gérard C. Bond

Gérard C. Bond was an American marine geologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who identified the recurring North Atlantic climate cycles now called Bond events.

Gerard C. Grosveld

Gerard C. Grosveld, also known as Gerard Grosveld, is a molecular hematologist at St. Jude known for mapping the bcr-abl fusion in chronic myeloid leukemia.

Gérard Cornuéjols

Gérard Cornuéjols is an operations researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, known for integer programming, lift-and-project cutting planes, and the 2000 Fulkerson Prize.

Gerard David

Gerard David was a Netherlandish painter, born about 1455 in Oudewater and died in 1523 in Bruges, where he led the city's school after Memling died in 1494.

Gerard De Geer

Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer (1858–1943) was a Swedish geologist who founded varve chronology, counting annual glacial sediment layers to build the Swedish Time Scale, a roughly 13,000-year chronology of Scandinavia's last deglaciation.

Gerard de Kruijff

Gerard Pieter de Kruijff (1890–1968), Dutch hussar colonel and Olympic eventing rider; two team golds (Paris 1924, Amsterdam 1928) and individual silver on Va-t-en; promoted the Italian 'enlightened seat'.

Gérard de Nerval

Gérard de Nerval, pen name of Gérard Labrunie, was a French writer (1808–1855) whose late works, including Sylvie, Les Chimères, and Aurélia, explore the boundary between dream and reality.

Gérard de Vaucouleurs

Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918–1995) was a French-born astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the de Vaucouleurs law, a revised galaxy classification, and the Local Supercluster.

Gérard de Villefort

Gérard de Villefort, fictional magistrate in Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo); deputy crown prosecutor of Marseille who condemns Edmond Dantès to protect his Bonapartist father's secret, rises to king's prosecutor in Paris, and is driven mad by the Count's revenge.

Gerard Debreu

Gérard Debreu (1921–2004) was a French-born American mathematical economist at UC Berkeley who won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on general equilibrium theory.

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu (Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu), French actor born 1948 in Châteauroux, star of over 200 films including Les Valseuses and Cyrano de Bergerac; two Césars, 1991 Oscar nomination; convicted of sexual assault in 2025, appealing.

Gerard Deulofeu

Gerard Deulofeu Lázaro (born 1994, Riudarenes), Spanish winger, La Masia product; Barcelona, Everton, Milan, Watford, Udinese; 4 Spain caps; career ended by knee injury, retired January 2025.

Gerard E. Francisco

Gerard E. Francisco is an American physiatrist who chairs physical medicine and rehabilitation at UTHealth Houston, leads TIRR Memorial Hermann, and studies recovery after neurologic injury.

Gerard E. Lynch

Gerard E. Lynch, born 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the Second Circuit, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009.

Gérard Eberl

Gérard Eberl is a French-based immunologist, professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris since 2014, known for research on how gut microbiota regulate immune responses.

Gerard Evan

Gerard Evan is a British cancer biologist who studies the Myc oncogene and p53, and pioneered mice in which cancer genes can be reversibly toggled.

Gerard F. Fox

Gerard F. Fox (1923–2008) was an American civil engineer who designed long-span bridges at HNTB, including the Dames Point Bridge, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Gerard F. Gilmore

Gerard F. Gilmore, known as Gerry Gilmore, is a British galactic astronomer at Cambridge who identified the Milky Way's thick disc and helped lead the Gaia mission.

Gérard Férey

Gérard Férey (1941–2017) was a French inorganic chemist and CNRS research director who pioneered metal-organic frameworks, designing the MIL family of porous materials for gas storage.

Gérard Friedlander

Gérard Friedlander, born in Paris in 1952, is a French physician-scientist in renal physiology known for work on kidney phosphate transport and chronic kidney disease.

Gerard Gallant

Gerard Gallant (Spud), born 1963 in Summerside, PEI, Canadian NHL left winger (615 games, 480 points) and head coach of Columbus, Florida, Vegas, and the Rangers; won the 2018 Jack Adams Award.

Gerard Gordeau

Gerard Gordeau, Dutch savate and karate champion from The Hague, won the first UFC bout by knocking out Teila Tuli at UFC 1 (Nov 12, 1993), then lost the final to Royce Gracie; pro MMA record 2-2.

Gerard Gropaiz

Gerard Gropaiz (Gérard André Gropaiz, 1943–2012), French freestyle swimmer for Racing Club de France; 1960 and 1964 Olympian, 1962 European 4×100 m relay champion, world record 3:42.5 in that relay.

Gerard Guy Medioni

Gerard Guy Medioni is a French-American computer vision scientist, a USC professor emeritus and Amazon vice president elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Gérard Houllier

Gérard Houllier (1947-2020), French football manager; Liverpool manager 1998-2004 winning the 2000-01 League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup treble; former France coach, PSG and Lyon title winner, later Aston Villa and Red Bull football director.

Gerard J. Criner

Gerard J. Criner is an American pulmonologist, founding chair of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at Temple University, known for leading COPD trials including STATCOPE and benralizumab studies.

Gerard J. Foschini

Gerard J. Foschini (1940–2023) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who created BLAST, the layered space-time theory behind MIMO wireless, and won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

Gerard J. Holzmann

Gerard J. Holzmann is a computer scientist best known for designing the Spin model checker for concurrent and distributed software; he led reliable-software research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Gerard J. Milburn

Gerard J. Milburn is an Australian theoretical physicist at the University of Queensland known for quantum measurement theory and the 2001 KLM scheme for optical quantum computing.