Gerald

Gerald is a masculine Germanic given name meaning "rule of the spear" from the prefix ger- ("spear") and suffix -wald ("rule"). Variants include the English given name Jerrold, the feminine nickname Jeri and the Welsh language Gerallt and Irish language Gearalt. Gerald is less common as a surname. The name is also found in French as Gérald. Geraldine is the feminine equivalent.

Given name
People with the name Gerald include:

Politicians

 * Gerald Boland, Ireland's longest-serving Minister for Justice
 * Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
 * Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, Lord Chancellor from 1964 to 1970
 * Gerald Häfner, German MEP
 * Gerald Klug, Austrian politician
 * Gerald Lascelles (disambiguation), several people
 * Gerald Nabarro, British Conservative politician
 * Gerald S. McGowan, US Ambassador to Portugal
 * Gerald Van Woerkom, American former member of the Michigan Legislature in both the House and Senate
 * Gerald "Boomer" Wright, American politician
 * Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, British diplomat, soldier, and architect
 * Gerald Michael Gabbard also known as Mike Gabbard.

Sports

 * Gerald Asamoah, Ghanaian-born German football player
 * Gerald Beverly, American basketball player
 * Gerald Brown (American football), American football coach
 * Gerald Christian (born 1991), American football player
 * Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
 * Gerald Dockery, American football player
 * Gerald Everett, American football player
 * Gerald Green, American basketball player
 * Gerald "Dusty" Hannahs (born 1993), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Gerald Humphries, English cricketer
 * Gerald Laird, American baseball player
 * Gerald Madkins (born 1969), American basketball player and executive
 * Gerald Melzer, Austrian tennis player
 * Gerald Sensabaugh, American football player
 * Gerald Sherry, American football player
 * Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
 * Gerald Willis (born 1995), American football player

Entertainment

 * Gerald Anderson (born 1989), Filipino American actor
 * Gerald Butler (writer) (1907–1988), English writer and screenwriter
 * Gerald Casale, vocalist, bass guitar & synthesizer player, Devo
 * Gerry Cinnamon (born Gerald Crosbie, 1985), Scottish musician
 * Gerald Finzi, British composer
 * Gerald Fried (1928–2023), American composer
 * Gerald Harper (born 1929), English actor
 * Gerald Haslam, American author The Other California
 * Gerald Alexander Held, German actor
 * Gerald Levert (1966–2006), American R&B singer and songwriter
 * Gerald Masters, songwriter and musician
 * Gerald McRaney (b. 1947), American actor
 * Gérald Neveu (1921-1960), French poet
 * Jerry Stiller (1927-2020), American actor and comedian and the father of Ben Stiller.
 * Gerald Vizenor, novelist, poet and critic
 * Gerald Gillum, American rapper known as "G-Eazy"
 * Gerald Wiley, a pseudonym used by British comic actor and writer Ronnie Barker (1929-2005)

Other fields

 * Gerald Ash, electrical engineer
 * Gerald Birks, Canadian World War I fighter ace
 * Gerald Bull, Canadian aerospace/artillery engineer
 * Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times
 * Gerald Cohen (1941–2009), Canadian professor of social and political theory at Oxford University, known as G. A. Cohen
 * Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter
 * Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard, British aristocrat
 * Gerald Friedland, American academic
 * Gerald Murphy, American heir
 * Gerald Ratner, British retail tycoon
 * Gerald Mayo, filed a lawsuit against Satan and his servants in US District Court
 * Gerald Shur (1933-2020), American lawyer, and the founder of the US Federal Witness Protection Program
 * Gerald Sparrow (1903–1988), British lawyer, judge and travel writer
 * Gerald Templer, British Army officer and military commander
 * Gerald C. Thomas, United States Marine Corpsgeneral who served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
 * Gerald Zamponi, Canadian academic

Fictional characters

 * Gerald Tippett, a character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
 * Gerald Robotnik, a character from Sonic Adventure 2
 * Gerald Broflovski, a character from South Park
 * Gerald Martin Johanssen, a character from Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!
 * Gerald, an anthropomorphic sea lion in the 2016 animated sequel film Finding Dory
 * Gerald McCloy, protagonist in 1950 short film Gerald McBoing-Boing
 * Gerald, a character from Little Lotta comics and Harvey Street Kids
 * Gerald O'Hara, Scarlett O'Hara's father in the film Gone with the Wind
 * Gerald, real name of Gator, a character from Thomas and Friends.

Surname

 * Matt Gerald, American actor and screenwriter