Gerhard

Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to:

Given name

 * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate
 * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark
 * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1983), German World War II flying ace
 * Gerhard Berger (born 1959), Austrian racing driver
 * Gerhard Boldt (1918–1981), German soldier and writer
 * Gerhard de Beer (born 1994), South African football player
 * Gerhard Diephuis (1817–1892), Dutch jurist
 * Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964), German pathologist and bacteriologist and Nobel Laureate
 * Gerhard Dorn (c.1530–1584), Flemish philosopher, translator, alchemist, physician and bibliophile
 * Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), German physicist and Nobel Laureate
 * Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987), German World War I flying ace
 * Gerhard Flesch (1909–1948), German Nazi Gestapo and SS officer executed for war crimes
 * Gerhard Gentzen (1909–1945), German mathematician and logician
 * Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912), Norwegian physician who found the cause of leprosy
 * Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999), German-Canadian physicist and chemist and Nobel Laureate
 * Gerhard Hochschild (1915–2010), German-American mathematician
 * Gerhard Klimeck (born 1966), German-American scientist
 * Gerhard Lang (1924-2016), German botanist
 * Gerhard Lenski (1924–2015), American sociologist of German descent
 * Gerhard Mayer (born 1980), Austrian discus thrower
 * Gerhard Mitter (1935–1969), German racing driver
 * Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705–1783), German historian and ethnologist
 * Gerd Müller, (1945–2021), German football striker
 * Gerhard Ludwig Müller (born 1947), German cardinal
 * Gerhard Munthe (1849–1929), Norwegian painter and illustrator
 * Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997), aircraft engine designer and executive
 * Gerhard Noodt (1647–1725), Dutch jurist
 * Gerhard Jan Palthe (1681–1767), Dutch painter and portraitist
 * Gerhard Potma (1967–2006), Dutch competitive sailor
 * Gerhard Präsent (born 1957), Austrian composer
 * Gerhard Richter (born 1932), German expressionist painter
 * Gerhard Ritter (1888–1967), German nationalist-conservative historian
 * Gerhard Rohlfs (1892–1986), German linguist
 * Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), German general
 * Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894–1945), German general during World War II
 * Gerhard Schröder (born 1944), German SDP politician, Chancellor of Germany 1998-2005
 * Gerhard Schröder (CDU) (1910–1989), German CDU politician, Foreign Minister and Minister of Defence
 * Gerhard Schwedes (born 1938), American football player
 * Gerhard von Schwerin (1899–1980), German general during World War II
 * Gerhard Sommer (1921–2019), German soldier during World War II accused of war crimes
 * Gerhard Sommer (pilot) (1919–1944), German World War II flying ace
 * Gerhard Strindlund (1890–1957), Swedish politician
 * Gerhard Tausche (born 1957), German archivist and author
 * Gerhard Wack (born 1945), German politician
 * Gerhard Wolf (1896–1971), German diplomat who saved many Jews from the World War II Holocaust
 * Gerhard Zandberg (born 1983), South African swimmer

Surname

 * Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867), German archaeologist
 * Johann Gerhard (1582–1637), German religious leader
 * Karl Gerhard (1891–1964), Swedish revue-writer and performer
 * Keegan Gerhard (born 1960), German pastry chef
 * Peter Gerhard (1920–2006), American historical geographer
 * Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970), Spanish Catalan composer
 * Till Gerhard (born 1971), German painter
 * Mark Gerhard, CEO of Jagex

Pseudonym or professional name

 * Gerhard (cartoonist) (born 1959), Canadian illustrator and cartoonist