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Gerry Beckley
Gerry Beckley (Gerald Linford Beckley, born 1952, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter and founding member of soft rock band America, writer of "Sister Golden Hair" and "I Need You," and a solo artist since 1995's Van Go Gan; he retired from touring in 2024 while remaining in the band.
Gerry Bertier
Gerry Bertier (1953-1981) was an American high school football linebacker and Paralympic athlete who led the undefeated 1971 T.C. Williams Titans, later portrayed in the 2000 Disney film Remember the Titans.
Gerry Brownlee
Gerry Brownlee is a New Zealand National Party politician serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives, previously earthquake recovery minister for Christchurch after its earthquakes.
Gerry Cardinale
Gerry Cardinale is an American private equity investor and former Goldman Sachs partner who founded RedBird Capital Partners in 2014, buying AC Milan in 2022 and taking stakes in Fenway Sports Group and other sports franchises.
Gerry Cinnamon
Gerry Cinnamon, stage name of Gerard Crosbie (born 1984, Castlemilk, Glasgow), is an independent Scottish singer-songwriter whose acoustic singalong albums Erratic Cinematic (2017), The Bonny (2020, UK number 1), and Live at Hampden Park (2023) drove stadium-level word-of-mouth success without a label or press.
Gerry Conlon
Gerry Conlon (Gerard Conlon, 1954-2014), Belfast member of the Guildford Four, wrongly convicted in 1975 of the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombings, imprisoned 15 years until the 1989 quashing, father of the Maguire Seven case, later campaigner portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father.
Gerry Connolly
Gerry Connolly (1950-2025), Democratic U.S. representative for Virginia's 11th District from 2009 to 2025, former Fairfax County Board of Supervisors chairman, Oversight ranking member, FITARA sponsor, died of esophageal cancer.
Gerry Cooney
Gerry Cooney, "Gentleman" Gerry Cooney, American heavyweight boxer from Huntington, New York; won first 25 pro fights, knocked out Norton in 54 seconds, lost a famous 1982 title fight to Larry Holmes, later lost to Spinks and Foreman.
Gerry Davey
Gerry Davey (John Gerald Davey, 1914-1977), Canadian-born British ice hockey right wing; 1936 Olympic gold medalist and GB's all-time national-team goal-scoring record holder; British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, 1949.
Gerry Dee
Gerry Dee (Gerard Francis-John Donoghue, born 1968) is a Canadian comedian, actor, and host; a former phys-ed teacher, he created and starred in CBC's Mr. D (2012–2018) and hosts Family Feud Canada since 2019.
Gerry Ford
Gerry Ford is a British-based businessman who founded the Caffè Nero coffee house chain in 1997 and has run it as chairman and chief executive ever since.
Gerry Giacoman Colyer
Gerry Giacoman Colyer is a Mexican technology entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Clara, the corporate spend-management fintech founded in Mexico City in 2020 that became Latin America's fastest unicorn.
Gerry Glackan
Gerry Glackan (Gerald Rudolph Glackan, 1923-1965), Indian field hockey player born in Jabalpur; won gold with India in men's hockey at the 1948 London Olympics; surname once misspelled Glacken.
Gerry Goffin
Gerry Goffin (1939–2014), American Brill Building lyricist and husband-partner of Carole King (music); over 50 Top 40 hits including "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," the first girl-group Hot 100 number one.
Gerry Hutch
Gerard "Gerry" Hutch, known as "The Monk", is an Irish former armed robber described by the Special Criminal Court as head of the Hutch Organised Crime Group.
Gerry Kingen
Gerry Kingen is an American Pacific Northwest restaurateur who bought a Seattle tavern in 1969 and built it into the Red Robin gourmet burger chain, later founding the Salty's waterfront restaurants.
Gerry Marsden
Gerry Marsden (Gerard Marsden, 1942-2021), Liverpool singer who led Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers; first act with three consecutive UK No.1 singles; his "You'll Never Walk Alone" became Liverpool FC's anthem.
Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan (Gerald Joseph Mulligan, 1927–1996) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, and arranger of Birth of the Cool, creator of the pianoless Chet Baker quartet, and leader of the Concert Jazz Band.
Gerry Ouellette
Gerry Ouellette (Joseph Raymond Gerald Ouellette, 1934–1975) was a Canadian marksman from Windsor, Ontario who won 50 m prone gold at the 1956 Olympics with a perfect 600.
Gerry Rafferty
Gerry Rafferty (Gerald Rafferty, 1947–2011), Scottish singer-songwriter of the Humblebums and Stealers Wheel, wrote "Stuck in the Middle with You" and the 1978 soft-rock hit "Baker Street" from the 5-million-selling US No. 1 album City to City.
Gerry Scharfenberger
Gerry Scharfenberger is an American Republican politician, a member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 13th Legislative District since 2020, and a former Middletown mayor.
Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence (Gerald Leonard Spence, 1929–2025) was a Wyoming trial lawyer famous for the Silkwood $10.5M verdict, Ruby Ridge and Imelda Marcos defenses, and for founding the Trial Lawyers College.
Gerry Wright
Gerry Wright, also known as Gerard D. Wright, is a Canadian biochemist at McMaster University who introduced the antibiotic "resistome" concept and won the 2024 Killam Prize.
Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering, also called the gerrymander, is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to favor a party or group. Defined by cracking and packing, named after Elbridge Gerry's 1812 Massachusetts map, and largely unreviewable in federal court since Rucho v. Common Cause (2019).
Gerrymandering in the United States
Gerrymandering in the United States is the manipulation of congressional and legislative district maps to favor a party or group, using cracking and packing. Named for 1812 Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry; federal courts cannot police it after Rucho v. Common Cause (2019).
Gersem
Gersem of Aksum was a king of the Aksumite kingdom in Ethiopia and Eritrea, known almost entirely from his rare late sixth or early seventh century coins.
Gersh Budker
Gersh Budker (Герш Ицкович Будкер, 1918–1977) was a Soviet accelerator physicist who first realized colliding beams, proposed electron cooling, and founded the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk.
Gershgorin circle theorem
The Gershgorin circle theorem is a result in matrix analysis stating that every eigenvalue of a square matrix lies in disks centered at the diagonal entries, published in 1931.
Gershom (גֵּרְשֹׁם)
Gershom (גֵּרְשֹׁם, Gereshom) is the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah in the Hebrew Bible, named for Moses' exile as a stranger in a foreign land.
Gershom Martin
Gershom Martin, who publishes as Jan M. L. Martin, is a Belgian-born computational quantum chemist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the Wn thermochemistry methods.