List of Famous people named Jerry

Jerry Irwin Mander is an American activist and author, best known for his 1978 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. His most recent book, The Capitalism Papers argues against capitalism as a sustainable and viable system on which to base an economy.

Jerry Bob Abbott is an American country music songwriter and record producer. He is the father of heavy metal musicians Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul, both of Pantera and Damageplan.

Jerry Tillery is an American football defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame.

Jerome Monahan Burns was an American college and professional football coach. He played in college for the Michigan Wolverines before becoming a coach. He served as the head football coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1961 to 1965, compiling a record of 16–27–2, and for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League from 1986 to 1991, tallying a mark of 52–43 in the regular season, and 3–3 in the postseason. Between his head coaching stints Burns was a defensive assistant (1965-1967) for the Green Bay Packers, helping the team win Super Bowls I and II, and Offensive Coordinator (1968-1985) for the Minnesota Vikings, where he coached the the team to four Super Bowl appearances.

Jerry Houser is an American television, film and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Oscar "Oscy" Seltzer in Summer of '42 and its sequel, Class of '44, and the role of Wally Logan in various Brady Bunch spinoffs throughout the 1980s and '90s.

Jerry Quarry, nicknamed "Irish" or "The Bellflower Bomber", was an American professional boxer. During the peak of his career from 1968 to 1971, Quarry was rated by The Ring magazine as the most popular fighter in the sport. His most famous bouts were against Muhammad Ali. Accumulated damage from lack of attention to defence against larger men at the top level, no head guard sparring, and attempted comebacks in 1977, 1983 and 1992 allied to a certain vulnerability to neurological damage also exhibited by his boxing brothers resulted in Quarry developing an unusually severe case of dementia pugilistica. Unable to perform everyday tasks, dependent on his family, and with the fortune he had earned frittered away, Quarry died at 53 years old.

Andrew Jerrold Perenchio was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He was at one time the chairman and chief executive officer of Univision.

Jerry González was an American bandleader, trumpeter and percussionist of Puerto Rican descent. Together with his brother, bassist Andy González, he played an important role in the development of Latin jazz during the late 20th century. During the 1970s, both played alongside Eddie Palmieri and in Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and from 1980 to 2018 they directed The Fort Apache Band. From 2000 to 2018, Jerry González resided in Madrid, where he fronted Los Piratas del Flamenco and El Comando de la Clave. In October 2018, he died of a heart attack after a fire in his home in Madrid.

Jerry Lo also known as DJ Jerry, is a singer, songwriter and DJ of hands up, hard trance, hip-hop and house, who was very popular in Taiwan in the 1990s and the 2000s. He was one of the first American born Taiwanese singers to become famous in Taiwan, along with the L.A. Boyz. During the late 1990s, he changed his style into electronic music and started going by the name of DJ Jerry.

Gerald George Martinson, was an American Jesuit missionary, television personality and broadcast executive in Taiwan.