Gerald is a male 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 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

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. 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, American football player * Gerald Everett, American football player * Gerald Green, American basketball player * Gerald Humphries, English cricketer * Gerald Laird, baseball player * Gerald Madkins (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, 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, 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, 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 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

References

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