Gerald is a male

Germanic given name Germanic languages, Germanic given names are traditionally wikt:dithematic, dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, Ethelred II of England, King Æþelred's name was derived from ', f ...

meaning "rule of the spear" from the prefix ''ger-'' ("spear") and suffix ''-wald'' ("rule"). Variants include the English given name Jerrold, the

feminine Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, and there is also some evidence that some behaviors considered fe ...

nickname

Jeri Jeri is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Jeri Campbell (born 1970), American figure skater * Jeri Ellsworth (born 1974), American entrepreneur and computer chip designer * Jeri Laber (born 1931), Americ ...

and the Welsh language Gerallt and

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

Gearalt. Gerald is less common as a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

. The name is also found in French as Gérald.

Geraldine Geraldine may refer to: People * Geraldine (name), the feminine form of the first name Gerald, with list of people thus named. * The Geraldines, Irish dynasty descended from the Anglo-Norman Gerald FitzWalter de Windsor * Geraldine of Albania, th ...

is the feminine equivalent.

Given name

People with the name Gerald include:

Politicians

* Gerald Boland, Ireland's longest-serving Minister for Justice *

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...

, 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 Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, British diplomat, soldier, and architect

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 Gerald Dockery (born August 17, 1970) is a former American football wide receiver who played four seasons in the Arena Football League with the Texas Terror, Grand Rapids Rampage and Houston ThunderBears. He attended Worthing High School in Hou ...

, American football player * Gerald Everett, American football player * Gerald Green, American basketball player *

Gerald Humphries Gerald Harvey Humphries (8 December 1908 – 3 February 1983) was an English first-class cricketer who played two matches for Worcestershire in the 1930s. He made 26 and 4 in the first game against Sussex, while in the second two years later he ...

, English cricketer * Gerald Laird, baseball player *

Gerald Madkins Gerald Madkins Jr. (born April 18, 1969) is an American professional basketball executive who is a former assistant general manager for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a former professional basketball pla ...

(born 1969), American basketball player and executive * Gerald Melzer, Austrian tennis player *

Gerald Sensabaugh Gerald Lind Sensabaugh Jr. (born June 13, 1983) is a former American football safety. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He also played for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Nort ...

, American football player * Gerald Sherry, American football player *

Gerald Wallace Gerald Jermaine Wallace (born July 23, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Crash", he was named an NBA All-Star and voted to the NBA All-Defensive First Team while with the Charlotte Bobcats in 2010. He played ...

, American basketball player *

Gerald Willis Gerald Willis III (born August 23, 1995) is an American football defensive tackle for the Orlando Guardians of the XFL (2020), XFL. He played college football for the Florida Gators football, Florida Gators and Miami Hurricanes football, Miami ...

(born 1995), American football player

Entertainment

* Gerald Anderson (born 1989), Filipino American actor * Gerald Casale, vocalist, bass guitar & synthesizer player, ''Devo'' * Gerry Cinnamon (born Gerald Crosbie, 1985), Scottish musician *

Gerald Finzi Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata '' Dies natalis'' for solo voice and ...

, British 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 Gerald Masters born Gerald Watkiss (February 17, 1955 – February 5, 2007) was a musician, solo artist and songwriter, achieving fame during the late seventies and early eighties. After releasing four albums, produced by Tony Atkins, as a s ...

, songwriter and musician * Gerald McRaney (b. 1947), American actor * Gérald Neveu (1921-1960), French poet * 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 Birks, Canadian World War I fighter ace * 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 Emma Georgina Egerton Fitzalan-Howard, Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard (née Roberts) is an English aristocrat and the châtelaine of Carlton Towers. Biography Fitzalan-Howard was born in Mayfield and Five Ashes, East Sussex, to middle-class p ...

, British aristocrat *

Gerald Friedland Gerald Friedland (born 1978, Berlin) is an adjunct professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He also maintains an affiliation with the International Computer Science Institute. ...

, American academic *

Gerald Murphy Gerald Clery Murphy and Sara Sherman Wiborg were wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who, with their generous hospitality and flair for parties, created a vibrant social circle, particularly ...

, American heir * Gerald Ratner, British retail tycoon *

Gerald Mayo ''United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff'', 54 F.R.D. 282 ( W.D.Pa. 1971), was a federal court case in which a prisoner filed a lawsuit in United States District Court against Satan and his servants. The case's class-action ...

, filed a lawsuit against Satan and his servants in US District Court *

Gerald Shur Gerald Shur (October 18, 1933 – August 25, 2020) was an American lawyer, and the founder of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program. Gerald Shur was born on October 18, 1933, in the Bronx, New York, the son of Rose (Nissell) Shur, a ...

(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 Gerald Carthrae Thomas (October 29, 1894 – April 7, 1984) was a United States Marine Corps general officer, general who served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. He retired from the Marine Corps in 1956 with more than 38 years ...

, United States Marine Corpsgeneral who served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps *

Gerald Zamponi Gerald W. Zamponi is a Canadian physiologist and pharmacologist, currently a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Neuroscience at University of Calgary The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calg ...

, 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, a anthropomorphic sea lion in the 2016 computer-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''

Surname

* Matt Gerald, American actor and screenwriter

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