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Gerard Jan Voss
Gerard Jan Voss, also known as Gerardus Joannes Vossius, was a Dutch Reformed theologian and classical scholar, born in 1577, dismissed from Leiden for Remonstrant sympathies, and first rector of the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam.
Gerard John Schaefer
Gerard John Schaefer Jr. (1946–1995), the "Killer Cop" and "Hangman," was a Martin County, Florida deputy sheriff convicted in 1973 of murdering Susan Place and Georgia Jessup, suspected in over twenty killings, and stabbed to death in prison.
Gerard K. O'Neill
Gerard K. O'Neill, also known as Gerard Kitchen O'Neill, was an American experimental physicist at Princeton University who invented the storage-ring principle behind modern particle colliders.
Gerard Karsenty
Gerard Karsenty is a physician-scientist who chairs Genetics and Development at Columbia University, known for establishing that bone is an endocrine organ via osteocalcin, which regulates glucose homeostasis, male fertility, and cognition.
Gerard Kearns
Gerard Kearns (born 1984) is an English actor from Mossley, Greater Manchester, known for Ian Gallagher in Shameless (2004–2010), Looking for Eric, The Last Kingdom, Chernobyl, and The Essex Serpent.
Gerard Kemkers
Gerard Kemkers (Geert Gerrit Kemkers, born 1967, Groningen) is a Dutch speed skater who won 5000 m bronze at the 1988 Calgary Olympics and later coached Sven Kramer and Ireen Wüst, infamously causing Kramer's 2010 Vancouver disqualification.
Gerard Kuiper
Gerard Peter Kuiper was a Dutch-born American astronomer and founder of modern planetary science, known for discovering Titan's atmosphere and the Kuiper Belt.](about 20 words)
Gerard Lake
Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake (जेरार्ड लेक), was a British general and commander-in-chief in India who captured Delhi and Agra from the Marathas in 1803.
Gerard Lemos, Baron Lemos
Gerard Lemos, Baron Lemos of Thornton Heath (born 1958) is a British Labour life peer, social policy writer, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, formerly Government Whip, Faith Minister, and chair of English Heritage and HMPPS.
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, known as William, was a French-American businessman who chaired the Louis Dreyfus commodities group from 1969 and was the father of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Gerard M. Faeth
Gerard M. Faeth (1936-2005) was an American combustion and multiphase-flow engineer, the Arthur B. Modine Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Michigan, known for spray combustion and spacecraft fire safety research.
Gérard M. London
Gérard M. London is a French nephrology researcher at Hôpital Manhès, Fleury-Mérogis, known for establishing arterial stiffness as an independent predictor of mortality in dialysis patients.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins, also known as Gerard Hopkins, was an English poet and Jesuit priest who invented sprung rhythm; his poems, collected by Robert Bridges in 1918, reshaped modern poetry.
Gerard Marcel Abel Baillely
Gerard Marcel Abel Baillely is a French-trained industrial chemist who led Procter & Gamble research and development and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Gerard Martin
Gerard Martin is a name shared by several unrelated notable people, including an Australian politician for Bathurst, a pediatric cardiologist at Children's National Hospital, and a neuroscientist.
Gerard Martín (footballer)
Gerard Martín, Spanish defender born 2002 in Esplugues de Llobregat, plays left back and left centre back for FC Barcelona. Signed from Cornellà to Barça Atlètic in 2023, broke out under Hansi Flick, reached 100 games, and holds a €100M release clause to 2028.
Gérard Medioni
Gérard Medioni is a computer vision researcher and USC Professor Emeritus known for tensor voting and for leading the computer vision behind Amazon's Just Walk Out stores.
Gerard Meijer
Gerard Meijer (born 1962) is a Dutch atomic and molecular physicist at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin, known for Stark deceleration and electrostatic trapping of cold molecules.
Gerard Menuhin
Gerard Menuhin (born 1948), British-American writer and film producer, son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin; Holocaust denier, removed from the Menuhin foundations in 2005 and 2007, author of Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil (2015).
Gérard Mourou
Gérard Mourou, born in 1944 in Albertville, France, is a French physicist who invented chirped pulse amplification, enabling petawatt laser pulses, and won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Gérard Mulliez
Gérard Mulliez, born in 1931 in Roubaix, is a French retail entrepreneur who founded the Auchan hypermarket chain in 1961 and leads the Mulliez family holding.
Gerard N. Burrow
Gerard Noel Burrow (1933–2013) was an American endocrinologist and expert on thyroid disease in pregnancy who served as the 14th dean of the Yale School of Medicine.
Gerard of Csanád
Gerard of Csanád (Szent Gellért) was a Venetian-born Benedictine monk, tutor to Prince Emeric, and first bishop of Csanád in Hungary from 1030 until his death in 1046.
Gerard of Ridefort
Gerard of Ridefort was a Fleming who served as Marshal of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and later became Grand Master of the Knights Templar. He advised King Guy of Lusignan.
Gérard Orth
Gérard Orth (1936–2023) was a French virologist and veterinarian at the Institut Pasteur who pioneered HPV cancer research and discovered the first human genes underlying warts.
Gerard Parkin
Gerard Parkin, known informally as Ged Parkin, is an inorganic and organometallic chemist at Columbia University since 1988, known for synthetic models of zinc enzymes and cleaving carbon-carbon bonds.
Gerard Philips
Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips (1858–1942) was a Dutch mechanical engineer who founded Philips & Co. in Eindhoven in 1891, building it into Europe's third-largest lamp maker by 1911.
Gerard Piqué
Gerard Piqué Bernabeu (born 1987, Barcelona) is a Spanish retired centre-back; Barcelona and Manchester United defender, 102 Spain caps, 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 winner, later Kosmos and Kings League entrepreneur.
Gérard Rauzy
Gérard Rauzy (1938–2010) was a French mathematician at the universities of Provence and Aix-Marseille II, known for Rauzy induction, Arnoux–Rauzy sequences, and the Rauzy fractal.
Gerard Rennick
Gerard Rennick (born 1970) is a former Australian Senator for Queensland, LNP 2019-2024 then his own People First party, known for vaccine mandate opposition, TGA clashes, and defeat at the 2025 election.