Ger or GER may refer to:

Healthcare and science

Gastroesophageal reflux Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is one of the upper gastrointestinal chronic diseases where stomach content persistently and regularly flows up into the esophagus, resulting in symptoms and/ ...

Granular endoplasmic reticulum The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is, in essence, the transportation system of the eukaryotic cell, and has many other important functions such as protein folding. It is a type of organelle made up of two subunits – rough endoplasmic reticulum ( ...

Language and writing

Ger (rune) Ger or GER may refer to: Healthcare and science * Gastroesophageal reflux * Granular endoplasmic reticulum Language and writing * Ger (rune), of the Anglo-Saxon futhark * German language *Gerund People * Ger (Hasidic dynasty) * Ger toshav, the b ...

, of the Anglo-Saxon futhark *

German language German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Ita ...

Gerund In linguistics, a gerund ( abbreviated ) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, one that functions as a noun. In English, it has the properties of both verb and noun, such as being modifiable ...

People

Ger (Hasidic dynasty) Ger (Yiddish: גער, also Gur, adj. Gerrer) is a Polish Hasidic dynasty originating from the town of Góra Kalwaria, Poland, where it was founded by Yitzchak Meir Alter (1798–1866), known as the "Chiddushei HaRim". Ger is a branch of Peshis ...

Ger toshav ''Ger toshav'' ( he, גר תושב, ''ger'': "foreigner" or "alien" + ''toshav'': "resident", lit. "resident alien") is a halakhic term used in Judaism to designate the legal status of a Gentile (non-Jew) living in the Land of Israel who does ...

, the biblical term for a ''resident alien'' *

Convert to Judaism Conversion to Judaism ( he, גיור, ''giyur'') is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion and become members of the Jewish ethnoreligious community. It thus resembles both conversion to other religions and naturalization. "Th ...

Given name or nickname

Ger Blok Ger Blok (16 October 1939 – 19 December 2016) was a Dutch football manager. Managerial career Blok was born in Amsterdam and supported Blauw-Wit as a child. Before becoming a manager, he was employed as a teacher in Bilthoven. At the age of ...

(1939–2016), Dutch football manager * Ger Brennan, Irish Gaelic footballer *

Ger Canning Ger Canning is an Irish sports commentator with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Career Ger Canning was born in Cork on 10 May 1951. He was a secondary school teacher at South Presentation school in Cork City when he began his broadcasting ca ...

(born 1951), Irish sports commentator *

Ger Challa Gerrit "Ger" Challa (born 18 December 1928) is a Dutch chemist. He was professor of chemistry and polymer technology at the University of Groningen from 1965 to 1993. Challa was born in Amsterdam. He studied chemistry between 1946 and 1953. He wor ...

(born 1928), Dutch chemist *

Ger Connolly Gerard C. Connolly (born 16 April 1937) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A farmer and auctioneer, Connolly was first elected to the 19th Dáil as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Laois–Offaly constituency on his first attempt at the 1 ...

(born 1937), Irish politician *

Ger Cunningham Gerard Cunningham (born 30 August 1961) is an Irish hurling manager and former player who played for Cork Senior Championship club St Finbarr's. He played for the Cork senior hurling team for 20 years, during which time he lined out as a goalk ...

(born 1961), Irish hurler *

Ger Duany Ger Duany (born 1978 in Akobo, Greater Upper Nile in South Sudan) is an actor. He is a self-described “village boy”. Early life Duany was born in Akobo (then part of Sudan) on November 9, 1978. He had his first experience of war at the ...

(born 1978), South Sudanese actor and model *

Ger Egan Ger Egan (born 1990/1991) is a Gaelic footballer who plays for Tyrrellspass and at senior level for the Westmeath county team. His uncle Joe Hyland was a goalkeeper for Tyrrellspass, who was part of the team that won the 1999 Westmeath Senio ...

(born 1990/1991), Westmeath Gaelic footballer *

Ger van Elk Ger van Elk (9 March 1941 – 17 August 2014) was a Dutch artist who created sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work has been described as being both conceptual art and arte povera. Between 1959 and 1988 he lived and wo ...

(1941–2014), Dutch artist *

Ger Feeney Ger Feeney ( 1954 – 10 October 2010) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the Mayo county team. Personal life Feeney was a native of Cortoon, Ballintubber, and studied at Ballinafad College. He was a highly regarded GAA player in th ...

(–2010), Irish Gaelic footballer *

Ger Farragher Ger Farragher (born 10 June 1983) is an Irish sportsman. He played in the forward line on the Galway senior hurling team. He plays his club hurling with Castlegar. Farragher was born in Galway in 1983 and has had much success in the game of ...

(born 1983), Irish hurler *

Ger Henderson Ger Henderson (born 5 May 1954) is a former Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Ger Henderson was born in Johnstown, County Kilkenny in 1954. He was educated loc ...

(born 1954), Irish hurler *

Ger Houlahan Gerard "Ger" Houlahan is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Armagh county team from 1984 to 2000. He won two Ulster Senior Football Championship medals with the county and also won an All Star award. Houlaha ...

, Irish Gaelic footballer * Ger Lagendijk (1941–2010), Dutch footballer *

Ger Loughnane Gerard "Ger" Loughnane (born 27 January 1953) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a right wing-back for the Clare senior team. Born in Feakle, County Clare, Loughnane first played competitive hurling whilst at school in St. Flannan's Coll ...

(born 1953), Irish hurler *

Ger Lynch Ger Lynch (born 10 December 1958) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a wing back at senior level for the Kerry county team. Lynch made his first appearance for the team during the 1982 championship and became a regular player ...

(born 1958), Irish Gaelic footballer *

Ger Manley Ger Manley (born 13 January 1968) is an Irish former hurler and Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with Inniscarra, Midleton and Muskerry and was also a member of the Cork senior hurling team. Playing career Manley first played Gaeli ...

(born 1968), Irish hurler * Ger Maycock (1970–2006), Irish artist *

Ger McDonnell Gerard McDonnell (20 January 1971 – 2 August 2008), mountaineer and engineer, was the first Irishman to reach the summit of K2, the second- highest mountain on Earth, in August 2008. He lost his life along with 10 other mountaineers following ...

(1971–2008), Irish mountaineer *

Ger O'Driscoll (disambiguation) Ger O'Driscoll may refer to: * Ger O'Driscoll (Gaelic footballer) Ger O'Driscoll was a Gaelic footballer from Valentia Island, County Kerry County Kerry ( gle, Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Reg ...

Ger Reddin Ger Reddin (born 14 January 1988 in Castletown, County Laois, Castletown, County Laois, Republic of Ireland, Ireland) is an Irish people, Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Castletown GAA, Castletown and has been a member ...

(born 1988), Irish hurler *

Ger Reidy Ger Reidy (Irish: Gearóid Ó Riada), is a GAA goalkeeper currently playing for Castleisland Desmonds and Kerry. He made his intercounty debut in the National League fixture vs. Donegal in Austin Stack Park, Tralee. He went on to play in 3 f ...

(born 1986), Irish Gaelic footballer *

Ger Robinson Ger Robinson (born 9 June 1982 in Dunboyne) is an Irish football striker, who last played for Kildare County in the League of Ireland. He is also involved in Gaelic football and has managed the Meath under-20 county team. Biography Robinson w ...

(born 1982), Irish association footballer *

Ger Ryan Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress, whose credits include '' Queer as Folk'', ''Family'', '' The War of the Buttons'', '' The Van'', ''Moll Flanders'', ''Intermission'' and '' Little Dog''. Career Ryan has twice been nominated for ...

, Irish actress *

Ger Senden Gerardus Christianus (Ger) Senden (born 9 July 1971) is a retired Dutch footballer, who played as a right back. He was born in Heerlen, and played for Roda JC from 1989 to 2008, earning the honorary nickname ''Mister Roda JC''. He played more tha ...

(born 1971), Dutch footballer *

Ger Spillane Ger Spillane (born 3 March 1981 in Ballygarvan, County Cork) is a member of the Cork inter-county Gaelic football team and is one of the Vodafone GAA All Stars for the 2006 season. In 2007, he was part of the Cork side that reached the final of ...

(born 1981), Irish Gaelic footballer

Places

Ger, Girona Ger is a village in the Provinces of Spain, province of Province of Girona, Girona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of and the population in 2014 was 432. See also * ''Virgin from Ger'', conserved a ...

, Catalonia, Spain *

Ger, Hautes-Pyrénées Ger (; oc, Gèr) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high ...

, France * Ger, Manche, France *

Ger, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Ger (; oc, Gèr) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department The following is a list of the 546 Communes of France, communes of the Pyrénées-Atl ...

, France *

Ger district A ger district ( mn, гэр хороолол, ) is a form of residential district in Mongolian settlements. They usually consist of parcels with one or more detached houses or gers (hence the name), surrounded by two-metre high wooden fences. ...

, a type of residential district in Mongolia *

Ger River The Ger River is a river of Saint Lucia. See also *List of rivers of Saint Lucia This is a list of rivers in the island country of Saint Lucia. Rivers are listed in clockwise order, starting at the north end of the island. Rivers There are 1 ...

, in Saint Lucia *

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

, IOC and UNDP codes *

Góra Kalwaria Góra Kalwaria (; "Calvary Mountain", yi, גער, ''Ger'') is a town on the Vistula River in the Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is situated approximately southeast of Warsaw and has a population of around 12,109 (as of 2019). ...

, Mazovian Voivodship, Poland *

Shiquanhe Shiquanhe (), known in Tibetan as Sênggêkanbab () or Sênggêzangbo, is the main town and administrative seat of Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Shiquanhe is located on the bank of Sênggê Zangbo, the source stream of the In ...

, Tibet, historically called Ger

Transportation

Gerrards Cross railway station Gerrards Cross railway station is a railway station in the town of Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the Chiltern Main Line between and . History The station was built as part of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Ra ...

, Buckinghamshire, National Rail station code GER *

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

, a British railway company *

Rafael Cabrera Mustelier Airport Rafael Cabrera Mustelier Airport or Rafael Cabrera Airport ( es, Aeropuerto "Rafael Cabrera Mustelier" ) is an airport serving Nueva Gerona, the capital city of the Isla de la Juventud special municipality in Cuba. Facilities The airport ...

, serving Nueva Gerona, Cuba, IATA code GER

Other uses

* ''Ger'' (magazine), an online Mongolian magazine *

Great Eastern Run The Perkins Great Eastern Run is a running event that takes place every year in Peterborough, United Kingdom, generally in mid-October. The event returned in 2006 after a 10-year absence and is rapidly gaining popularity. Currently, there are th ...

, a running event in Peterborough, United Kingdom *

Gross enrolment ratio Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) or Gross Enrolment Index (GEI) is a statistical measure used in the education sector, and formerly by the UN in its Education Index, to determine the number of students enrolled in school at several different grade level ...

Migration Period spear The spear or lance, together with the bow, the sword, the seax and the shield, was the main equipment of the Germanic warriors during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages. Terminology The pre-migration term reported by Tacitus is ...

Yurt A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger ( Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes and mountains of Central Asia. ...

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