Gerhard is Gerard, 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, (born 1945), 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

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