List of Famous people named Gerard
Gerard James Wilde
Gérard Giroudon
Gérard Simon
Gérard Hekking
Gérard Hekking was a French cellist.
Gerard de Lairesse
Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and French classicist painters such as Charles le Brun, Simon Vouet and authors such as Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine. His importance grew in the period following the death of Rembrandt. His treatises on painting and drawing, Grondlegginge Ter Teekenkonst (1701), based on geometry and Groot Schilderboek (1707), were highly influential on 18th-century painters.
Gérard Debaets
Gerard Debaets was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1924 and 1927 and the Belgian national road race title in 1925. He also specialized in track cycling, winning a total of 18 six-day events, including six times the most prestigious Six Days of New York. Debaets was a resident of Fair Lawn and North Haledon, New Jersey, where he died in 1959 of a heart attack.
Blessed Gerard
The Blessed Gerard was a lay brother in the Benedictine order who was appointed as rector of the hospice in Jerusalem in 1080, and who, in the wake of the success of the First Crusade in 1099, became the founder of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
Gérard Guazzini
Gérard Guazzini is a French former professional racing cyclist. He rode the 1994 Tour de France.
Gerard Horan
Gerard James Pertwee Horan is an English actor. He is known for playing Firefighter Leslie "Charisma" Appleby in London's Burning from 1986 to 1989 and again in 1994.
Gérard Ernest Schneider
Gérard Ernest Schneider (1896–1986) was a Swiss painter.