Gerald (given name)
| Pronunciation | /ˈdʒɛrəld/ JERR-əld |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | "rule of the spear" |
| Region of origin | Germanic |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Jerrold, Jeri, Geraldine, Jerald, Jerry, Gerry |
Gerald is an English and German masculine given name meaning "rule of the spear", from the prefix ger- ("spear") and suffix -wald ("rule"). The name is also found in French as Gérald. Variants include the English given name Jerrold, and the Welsh Gerallt and Irish Gearalt. Geraldine is the feminine equivalent.[1]
Notable people with the name include:
Politicians
- Gerald Boland, Ireland's longest-serving Minister for Justice
- Gerald Ford, 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, American football player
- Gerald Sherry, American football player
- Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
- Gerald Willis (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, 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 Zamponi, 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 Hey Arnold!
- Gerald, a character from the show Sid the Science Kid
- Gerald, a sea lion from the 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
See also
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