List of Famous people named Gerd

Gerd Müller is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria. He is the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development.

Gerd Friedrich Bollmann was a German politician. A member of the SPD, Bollman served in the Bundestag from 2002 to 2013, representing the electoral district of Herne – Bochum II.

Gerd Anthoff is a German theatre and television actor.

Gerd Nefzer is a German special effects artist. He was co-awarded an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work as special effects supervisor on Blade Runner 2049.

Gerd Grochowski was a German operatic bass-baritone who had an active international career from 1986 until his death in 2017. Particularly known for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner, his roles included Donner in Das Rheingold, Gunther in Götterdämmerung, Klingsor in Parsifal, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Telramund in Lohengrin, and Wotan in The Ring Cycle. A graduate of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, he was a longtime resident artist at the Cologne Opera. He appeared in leading roles as a guest artist at the Bayreuth Festival, the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, La Scala, the Liceu, the Linz State Theatre, the Stuttgart Opera, the Teatro Real, the Theater an der Wien, and the Salzburg Festival.

Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof is a German author and former Generalmajor in the German Army of the Bundeswehr, who, like Udo Walendy, also disputes Germany's sole guilt for the Second World War.

Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry.

Gerd Althoff is a German historian of the Early and High Middle Ages. He presents himself as a researcher into the "political rules of the game" in the Middle Ages. He has held professorships at Münster, Gießen (1990–1995) and Bonn (1995–1997).

Gerd Natschinski was a German composer. He worked on the scores for more than forty film and television series during his career. He was employed the East German state-controlled studio DEFA.

Gerd Tellenbach was a German historian and scholar of medieval social and religious history, particularly of the Papacy and German church during the Investiture Controversy and reform movements of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Tellenbach also made groundbreaking contributions to the study of the medieval nobility and helped establish a new field of research dedicated to mapping social networks and familial ties among medieval elites (Personenforschung). After studying history at the universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg, he taught in Gießen, Münster, and finally the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, where he served as Rektor (chancellor) in 1949–1950 and again in 1957–1958. From 1962 to 1971, he was director of the German Historical Institute in Rome, a state-sponsored research center dedicated to German-Italian studies and the history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages.