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Gerd Cintl
Gerd Cintl (1938-2017), German rower of RC Germania Düsseldorf, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed four at the 1960 Rome Games with Effertz, Riekemann, Litz, and cox Obst; also 1958 and 1959 German and European champion.
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn who proved the Mordell conjecture, won the Fields Medal in 1986, and received the 2026 Abel Prize.
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer (born 1947) is a German psychologist, ABC group founder at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, known for fast-and-frugal heuristics, ecological rationality, and risk literacy, and for his debate with Kahneman and Tversky's heuristics-and-biases program.
Gerd Hasenfuß
Gerd Hasenfuß, born 1955 in Kehl, is a German cardiologist who led cardiology at Universitätsmedizin Göttingen from 1998 to 2024 and studied calcium handling in heart failure.
Gerd Heidemann
Gerd Heidemann (1931–2024), German Stern reporter and Nazi-era collector who tracked down Konrad Kujau's forged Hitler diaries, triggering the 1983 Stern scandal, a fraud conviction, and a revealed 1953 Stasi link.
Gerd Heusch
Gerd Heusch is a German physician-scientist in cardiology, emeritus professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and president of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences since 2025.
Gerd Janson
Gerd Janson is a German DJ and journalist who co-founded the house and techno label Running Back in 2002 and holds a residency at Frankfurt's Robert Johnson club.
Gerd Jürgens
Gerd Jürgens (born 1949) is a German plant developmental biologist, emeritus Max Planck director in Tübingen, whose genetic screens established how plant embryos build their body axis.
Gerd Kanter
Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower born 1979 in Tallinn; 2008 Olympic champion and 2007 world champion; personal best 73.38 m, third all-time; later coach of Kristjan Čeh and Estonian Olympic Committee vice president.
Gerd Kempermann
Gerd Kempermann (born 1965 in Cologne) is a German neuroscientist at TU Dresden who studies adult hippocampal neurogenesis, known for a 1997 Nature study showing enriched environments grow new neurons.
Gerd Kische
Gerd Kische (born 1951, Teterow) is a German former right-back, Hansa Rostock record international with 63 East German caps, 1976 Olympic football gold medalist and 1974 World Cup player, later Hansa president and manager.
Gerd Leuchs
Gerd Leuchs (born 1950) is a German experimental physicist in quantum optics and the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen.
Gerd Müller
Gerd Müller (Gerhard Müller), "Der Bomber" (1945–2021), German centre-forward for Bayern Munich and West Germany; 365 Bundesliga goals, 68 in 62 caps, 1974 World Cup winner, 1970 Ballon d'Or.
Gerd P. Pfeifer
Gerd P. Pfeifer is a molecular biologist and Professor of Epigenetics at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, known for mapping DNA methylation and tobacco carcinogen damage at single-nucleotide resolution.
Gerd R Burmester
Gerd R. Burmester (Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, born 1953) is a German rheumatologist and clinical immunologist who directed rheumatology at Charité Berlin from 1993 to 2022 and served as president of EULAR from 2015 to 2017.
Gerd Schön
Gerd Schön was a German theoretical physicist who worked on superconductivity, Josephson junctions, and superconducting qubits, holding the Karlsruhe chair from 1991 until his death in 2024.
Gerd Theissen
Gerd Theissen (Gerd Theißen, born 1943, Rheydt) is a German New Testament scholar, Professor Emeritus at Heidelberg, known for the sociology of the Jesus movement (Wanderradikalismus), the criterion of historical plausibility with Dagmar Winter, The Shadow of the Galilean, and his theory of religion as a cultural sign language.
Gerd von Rundstedt
Gerd von Rundstedt, born Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, was a German field marshal who commanded German forces on the Western Front from 1942 to 1945.
Gerd Walz
Gerd Walz, born 1957, is a German nephrologist who led the Renal Division at the University of Freiburg from 1999 to 2026 and studies polycystic kidney disease.
Gerd Weber
Gerd Weber (born 1956, Dresden) is a German former footballer, Dynamo Dresden forward and 1976 Montréal Olympic gold medallist with East Germany, whose career ended in 1981 after a Stasi-uncovered escape attempt.
Gerd Wessig
Gerd Wessig, born 1959 in Lübz, East German high jumper; 1980 Moscow Olympic champion with a 2.36 m world record, the first high jump world record set at an Olympics; later linked to GDR doping documents.
Gerd Wiltfang
Gerd Wiltfang (1946–1997) was a West German show jumper who won Olympic team gold at Munich in 1972 and became individual world champion in 1978 at Aachen.
Gerda Flöckinger
Gerda Flöckinger, born 1927 in Innsbruck, is an Austrian-born jeweler working in London who pioneered British contemporary studio jewelry and showed at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Gerda Gottlieb
Gerda Gottlieb (1916-1992), Austrian Jewish track and field athlete of Wiener AC and Hakoah Wien; set the last FSFI world records in the standing high jump (1.32 m, 1934) and two relay events, then placed second in the 1940 US high jump nationals. Not the Danish painter of the same name.
Gerda Laue
Gerda Laue was a German sprinter who ran for SC Brandenburg Berlin and held FSFI world records in the 10 × 100 m and 3 × 800 m relays.
Gerda Pirch
Gerda Pirch (later Pinski), born 6 December 1910, German sprint hurdler for SC Charlottenburg; German 80 m hurdles champion 1930 and 1931, silver at the 1930 Women's World Games in Prague, German record 12.3 s.
Gerda Taro
Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle, 1910-1937), German-Jewish war photojournalist and inventor of the Robert Capa alias with Capa, covered the Spanish Civil War for Vu, Regards, and Ce Soir, and died at Brunete in July 1937.
Gerda van der Kade Koudijs
Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (1923-2015), Dutch sprinter and long jumper, 1948 Olympic 4x100 m relay gold medalist and 1946 European long jump champion, teammate of Fanny Blankers-Koen.
Gerda Wegener
Gerda Wegener (1885–1940), born Gerda Gottlieb, Danish painter and illustrator of Paris fashion magazines such as La Vie Parisienne and Vogue; wife and portraitist of Lili Elbe; Art Deco erotic art; Arken 2015 retrospective.
Gerda Weissensteiner
Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian luger and bobsleigh pilot born 1969 in Bolzano; Olympic luge gold at Lillehammer 1994 and bobsleigh bronze at Turin 2006, the only Italian with Olympic medals in two winter disciplines.