List of Famous people named Gerard

Gérard Buhr (1928–1988) was a French film and television actor.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody – particularly his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovative writer of verse, as did his technique of praising God through vivid use of imagery and nature. Only after his death did Robert Bridges begin to publish a few of Hopkins's mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare the way for wider acceptance of his style. By 1930 his work was recognised as one of the most original literary accomplishments of his century. It had a marked influence on such leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.

Gérard Zingg was a French painter, screenwriter, and film director.

Gérard Cornu is a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Eure-et-Loir department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.