Gerhard

Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to:

Given name

• Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate
• Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark
• Gerhard Allroggen (1936–2025), German musicologist
• Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1983), German World War II flying ace
• Gerhard Berger (born 1959), Austrian racing driver
• Gerhard Boldt (1918–1981), German soldier and writer
• Gerhard de Beer (born 1994), South African football player
• Gerhard Diephuis (1817–1892), Dutch jurist
• Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964), German pathologist and bacteriologist and Nobel Laureate
• Gerhard Dorn (c.1530–1584), Flemish philosopher, translator, alchemist, physician and bibliophile
• Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), German physicist and Nobel Laureate
• Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987), German World War I flying ace
• Gerhard Flesch (1909–1948), German Nazi Gestapo and SS officer executed for war crimes
• Gerhard Gentzen (1909–1945), German mathematician and logician
• Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912), Norwegian physician who found the cause of leprosy
• Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999), German-Canadian physicist and chemist and Nobel Laureate
• Gerhard Hochschild (1915–2010), German-American mathematician
• Gerhard Klimeck (born 1966), German-American scientist
• Gerhard Kretschmar (1939–1939), German child authorized for euthanasia by Adolf Hitler
• Gerhard Lang (1924–2016), German botanist
• Gerhard Lenski (1924–2015), American sociologist of German descent
• Gerhard Mayer (born 1980), Austrian discus thrower
• Gerhard A. Meinl (1957–2026), German instrument maker and politician
• Gerhard Mitter (1935–1969), German racing driver
• Gerd Müller (1945–2021), German football striker
• Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705–1783), German historian and ethnologist
• Gerhard Ludwig Müller (born 1947), German cardinal
• Gerhard Munthe (1849–1929), Norwegian painter and illustrator
• Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997), aircraft engine designer and executive
• Gerhard Noodt (1647–1725), Dutch jurist
• Gerhard Jan Palthe (1681–1767), Dutch painter and portraitist
• Gerhard Potma (1967–2006), Dutch competitive sailor
• Gerhard Präsent (born 1957), Austrian composer
• Gerhard Richter (born 1932), German expressionist painter
• Gerhard Ritter (1888–1967), German nationalist-conservative historian
• Gerhard Rohlfs (1892–1986), German linguist
• Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), German general
• Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894–1945), German general during World War II
• Gerhard Schröder (born 1944), German SDP politician, former Chancellor of Germany
• Gerhard Schröder (CDU) (1910–1989), German CDU politician, Foreign Minister and Minister of Defence
• Gerhard Schwedes (born 1938), American football player
• Gerhard von Schwerin (1899–1980), German general during World War II
• Gerhard Sommer (1921–2019), German soldier during World War II accused of war crimes
• Gerhard Sommer (pilot) (1919–1944), German World War II flying ace
• Gerhard Strindlund (1890–1957), Swedish politician
• Gerhard Struber (born 1977), Austrian association football manager
• Gerhard Tausche (born 1957), German archivist and author
• Gerhard Trabert (born 1956), German public figure
• Gerhard Wack (born 1945), German politician
• Gerhard Wolf (1896–1971), German diplomat who saved many Jews from the World War II Holocaust
• Gerhard Zandberg (born 1983), South African swimmer

Surname

• Friedrich Gerhard (1884–1950), German equestrian and Olympic champion
• Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867), German archaeologist
• Hubert Gerhard (c. 1540/1550–1620), Dutch sculptor
• Johann Gerhard (1582–1637), German religious leader and theologian
• Karl Gerhard (1891–1964), Swedish theater director, revue writer and actor
• Keegan Gerhard (born 1960), German pastry chef
• Mark Gerhard, CEO of Jagex from 2009 to 2015
• Peter Gerhard (1920–2006), American historical geographer
• Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970), Spanish Catalan composer, musical scholar and writer
• Till Gerhard (born 1971), German painter

Pseudonym or professional name

• Wolfgang Gerhard, post-World War II alias of German war criminal Josef Mengele (1911–1979)
• Gerhard (cartoonist) (born 1959), Canadian illustrator and comics artist

See also

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