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* Saint
Gerland of Agrigento Saint Gerland of Agrigento ( it, San Gerlando di Agrigento), also known as Gerland of Besançon (d. 25 February 1100) was a bishop of Agrigento in Sicily. History Believed to have been a native of Besançon, he was a relative of the Norman Roge ...
(died 1100), bishop of Agrigento, Sicily *
Gerland (mathematician) Gerland was an 11th-century mathematician who flourished in England following the Norman Conquest. Little is known of his personal life. His treatise on the Computus may be found in the British Museum and his work on the abacus is preserved in the ...
, 11th-century English mathematician


People with the surname

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Georg Gerland Georg Cornelius Karl Gerland (29 January 1833, in Kassel – 16 February 1919, in Strasbourg) was a German anthropologist and geophysicist. He studied classical philology, Germanistics and anthropology at the universities of Berlin and Marb ...
(1833–1919), German anthropologist and geophysicist *
Gunilla Gerland Gunilla Gerland (born 1963) is a Swedish author and lecturer on the topic of autism. Biography Gunilla Gerland was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was abusive and eventually left her family, and her mother had alcoholism. Gerland left home ...
(born 1963), Swedish writer and activist *
Hermann Gerland Hermann "Tiger" Gerland (born 4 June 1954) is a German professional football manager and former player who has most recently worked as an assistant coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Playing career Born in Bochum, Gerland spent his entire ...
(born 1954), German football player and manager *
Karl Gerland Karl Gerland (14 July 1905 – 21 April 1945) was a Nazism, Nazi ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Electoral Hesse, Gau Kurhessen and ''Oberpräsident'' of the Prussian Province of Kurhessen. On 21 April 1945, Gerland was killed in action against the Soviet R ...
(1905–1945), Nazi leader


Places

* Gerland, Lyon, a quarter of
Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
, France *
Gerland, Côte-d'Or Gerland () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Côte-d'Or department The following is a list of the 698 communes of the Côte-d'Or department of France. The communes cooper ...
, a commune in France *
Parc de Gerland , previously () and also called , is a large greenspace in Lyon situated on a former industrial site in the south of the city near the confluence of the Rhône and the Saone. Construction began in 1996, and the park was developed over an a ...
, a park in Lyon, France


Other uses

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Gerland Corporation Gerland Corporation was a retail company headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States; the company operates various grocery stores, gas stations, and check cashing stores within the Greater Houston Area. History A. J. Gerland founded the ''Ge ...
, an American retail company {{disambiguation, geo, surname