All articles starting with G

Gerard Rennick People First

Gerard Rennick People First, also styled People First Party, is an Australian party founded by Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick after leaving the LNP in 2024; registered as a Parliamentary party, defeated at the 2025 election, reclassified non-Parliamentary in August 2025.

Gerard Reve

Gerard Reve, born Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, was a Dutch writer counted with Harry Mulisch and Willem Frederik Hermans among the Great Three of postwar Dutch literature.

Gérard Roelfes

Gerard Roelfes is a Dutch chemist and full professor at the University of Groningen, where he directs the Stratingh Institute and is known for DNA-based asymmetric catalysis and designer enzymes with unnatural amino acids.

Oct 10, 2026

Gérard Rousset (adaptive optics specialist)

Gérard Rousset is a French adaptive optics specialist at ONERA who led NAOS, the VLT adaptive optics system cited in the 2020 Nobel Physics background.

Oct 10, 2026

Gerard Schneemann

Gerard Schneemann, also known as Gerhard Schneemann, was a German Jesuit theologian and canonist (1829–1884 or 1885), founder of the Collectio Lacensis and co-founder of Stimmen aus Maria-Laach.

Gerard Sekoto

Gerard Sekoto (1913–1993) was a South African painter and pioneer of urban Black art, known for township scenes and for spending most of his life in exile in Paris.

Sep 20, 2026

Gèrard Socié

Gérard Socié is a French professor of hematology at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, known for research on stem cell transplantation, graft-versus-host disease, and secondary cancers.

Gerard ter Borch

Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681) was a Dutch painter of portraits and genre scenes, based in Deventer, known for small interior pictures of elegant figures and his 1648 Treaty of Münster group portrait.

Gerard van Honthorst

Gerard van Honthorst (Gerrit van Honthorst, 1592-1656), Utrecht Caravaggist nicknamed Gherardo delle Notti for candlelit night scenes; court painter to Charles I, Christian IV, and the Dutch House of Orange.

Gerard van Koten

Gerard van Koten, born 1942 in Haarlem, is a Dutch organometallic chemist, emeritus professor at Utrecht University, known for the NCN-pincer ligand platform used in catalysis.

Gerard van Swieten

Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772) was a Dutch physician who left Leiden for Vienna, became personal physician and trusted councillor to Empress Maria Theresa, and founded the First Vienna Medical School.

Oct 21, 2026

Gerard van Velde

Gerard van Velde (Gerard Pieter Hendrik van Velde), Dutch long-track speed skater born 1971 in Wapenveld; 2002 Olympic 1000 m champion in world-record 1:07.18 after a 1998 clap-skate retirement and comeback; later coach of Michel Mulder and Femke Kok.

Oct 21, 2026

Gerard Vervoort

Gérard Vervoort (born 6 May 1936) is a retired French middle-distance runner, lead-off leg (3:41.8) of France's 4x1500m relay world record 14:49.0 at Saint Maur in 1965 with Nicolas, Jazy, and Wadoux; also 1964 indoor 4x800m record and 1958 French 800m champion.

Gerard W. Elverum

Gerard W. "Jerry" Elverum was an American rocket-propulsion engineer who directed TRW's Apollo Lunar Module descent engine, the throttleable engine that landed astronauts on the Moon.

Gerard Walschap

Gerard Walschap (1898–1989) was a Flemish novelist and critic who renewed the Flemish novel, had a public dispute with the Catholic Church, and received the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren in 1968.

Gerard Way

Gerard Way (born 1977, Summit, New Jersey) is the My Chemical Romance frontman and Eisner Award-winning comic writer of The Umbrella Academy with Gabriel Ba, DC's Young Animal curator, and executive producer of the Netflix adaptation.

Sep 19, 2026

Gérard Wertheimer

Gérard Wertheimer is a French billionaire businessman, born in Paris in 1951, who co-owns the luxury fashion and fragrance house Chanel with his elder brother Alain.

Gerard Wong

Gerard C. L. Wong is a UCLA professor of bioengineering, chemistry, and microbiology who studies bacterial biofilms and antibiotic-resistant infections, known for his 2013 Nature paper on Psl trails.

Gerard, Duke of Lorraine

Gerard, Duke of Lorraine (Gérard d'Alsace, c. 1030–1070), Count of Metz and Châtenois, first hereditary Duke of Upper Lorraine from 1048, founder of the House of Alsace, initiator of Nancy's castle.

Oct 21, 2026

Gerarda

Gerarda is a monotypic homalopsid snake genus (Gray, 1849) whose sole species, Gerarda prevostiana, Gerard's water snake or glossy marsh snake, is a mangrove snake of South and Southeast Asia that eats freshly molted crabs and tears prey apart.

Gerardo Adesso

Gerardo Adesso is a mathematical physicist and Professor at the University of Nottingham since 2016, known for work on quantum entanglement, coherence, and quantum correlations.

Gerardo Barrios

Gerardo Barrios, born José Gerardo Barrios Espinoza, was a Salvadoran general and president of El Salvador from 1859 to 1863 who introduced the first liberal-positivist reforms in Central America.

Gerardo Ceballos

Gerardo Ceballos, also known as Gerardo Ceballos González, is a Mexican ecologist and conservation biologist at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, known for quantifying the ongoing sixth mass extinction.

Gerardo Celasco

Gerardo Celasco, known professionally as Adrian Bellani, is a Salvadoran-American actor born in 1982 who played Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on NBC's Passions and appeared in Moneyball and Devil in Ohio.

Gerardo Diego

Gerardo Diego (1896–1987) was a Spanish poet, critic, and teacher of the Generation of 27; his 1932 anthology defined the group, and he won the 1979 Cervantes Prize shared with Borges.

Gerardo Machado

Gerardo Machado y Morales (1871–1939) was a Cuban general of the independence war who served as president of Cuba from 1925 to 1933, becoming a dictator.

Gerardo Martino

Gerardo Daniel "Tata" Martino, born 1962 in Rosario, is an Argentine football manager and former Newell's Old Boys midfielder. He coached Paraguay (2010 World Cup quarter-finals), FC Barcelona, Argentina, Atlanta United (2018 MLS Cup), and Mexico.