List of Famous people named Jerry

Name Jerry is among the most common names in USA. Often it's a shorthand for Jerome, Gerald. Similar names: Jerome, Gerald, Jiri, Jiro, Jeri, Jere, Jyri, Jerai, Jer. Here are some famous Jerrys:

Jerry Reed

First Name Jerry
Born on March 20, 1937
Died on September 1, 2008 (aged 71)

Jerry Reed Hubbard was an American country music singer, guitarist, composer, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man", "U.S. Male", "A Thing Called Love", "Alabama Wild Man", "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot", "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down", "The Bird", and "She Got the Goldmine ".

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Jerry Weintraub

First Name Jerry
Born on September 26, 1937
Died on July 6, 2015 (aged 77)

Jerome Charles Weintraub was an American film producer, talent manager and actor whose television films won him three Emmys.

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Jerry Springer

First Name Jerry
Born on February 13, 1944 (age 82)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Gerald Norman Springer is an English-born American television presenter, former politician, news presenter, actor, producer, musician, and former lawyer. He hosted Jerry Springer, a tabloid talk show, between September 30, 1991 and July 26, 2018 and debuted the Jerry Springer Podcast in 2015. As of February 2020, Springer hosts a courtroom show called Judge Jerry.

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Jerry Harris

First Name Jerry

Jeremiah Harris is an American cheerleader and television personality. He received national recognition after appearing in the 2020 Netflix docuseries Cheer. He became famous for his eccentric personality. In September 2020, and again in December 2020, he was charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with production of child pornography.

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Jerry Doyle

First Name Jerry
Born on July 16, 1956
Died on July 27, 2016 (aged 60)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Jerry Doyle was an American talk radio host, right-libertarian political commentator, television actor and founder of the content platform EpicTimes. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Jerry Doyle Show, aired throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network. As an actor, Doyle was known for his role as Michael Garibaldi in the science fiction series Babylon 5 (1994–1998).

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Jerry Yan

First Name Jerry
Born on January 1, 1977 (age 49)

Jerry Yan, born Liao Yangzhen, is a Taiwanese actor, model and singer. He is well known for his lead role as Dao Ming Si in the Taiwanese dramas Meteor Garden and Meteor Garden II, an adaptation of a Japanese shōjō manga. He is also a former member of the boy band group F4.

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Jerry Parr

Jerry Studstill Parr
First Name Jerry
Born on September 16, 1930
Died on October 9, 2015 (aged 85)

Jerry S. Parr was an American Secret Service agent who is best known for his act of bravery in defending President Ronald Reagan during the attempt on the president's life on March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C. Parr pushed Reagan into the presidential limousine and made the critical decision to divert the presidential motorcade to George Washington University Hospital instead of returning to the White House. He was honored for his actions that day with U.S. Congress commendations, and is widely credited with helping to save the president's life.

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Jerry Collins

First Name Jerry
Born on November 4, 1980
Died on June 5, 2015 (aged 34)
Born in Samoa, Tuamasaga
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Jerry Collins was a New Zealand rugby union player. He played for New Zealand, for whom he was capped 48 times, and most recently played for RC Narbonne, in the Rugby Pro D2. Collins and his partner, Alana Madill, were killed in a car accident in southern France in June 2015.

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Jerry Maren

Gerald Marenghi
First Name Jerry
Died on May 24, 2018 (aged 48)

Jerry Maren, was an American actor who played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. He became the last surviving adult Munchkin following the death of Ruth Duccini in 2014, and was also the last surviving cast member with a specifically identifiable speaking or singing role.

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Jerry Taft

First Name Jerry
Born on March 14, 1943
Died on July 23, 2020 (aged 77)

Jerry Taft was an American meteorologist and weather presenter who served as chief meteorologist for WLS-TV in Chicago. He worked for 34 years with WLS, and for 42 years as a broadcast meteorologist in the Chicago media market.

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