Gerhard "Gerd" Müller was a German professional footballer. A prolific striker, especially in and around the six-yard box, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest goalscorers in the history of the sport. With success at club and international level, he is one of nine players to have won the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the Ballon d'Or.
Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry.
Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, both in Berlin.
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria who has served as Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization since 2021.
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 Binnig is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.
Gerd Weber is a German former footballer ho played as a right midfielder or right-back for Dynamo Dresden.
Gerd Bucerius was a German politician, publisher and journalist, one of the founding members of Die Zeit. He is the namesake of the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and of the Bucerius Kunst Forum, an art gallery.
Gerd Langguth was a professor of political science at the University of Bonn and the author of biographies of Angela Merkel, Horst Köhler and of Rudi Dutschke
Gerd Dais is a German football manager and former player.
Gerd Cintl was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Gerd-Volker Schock is a German football coach and a former player.
Gerd Saborowski is a German former professional footballer played as a striker. He spent five seasons in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Braunschweig.
Gerd Türk is a German classical tenor.
Gerd Schädlich was a German football player and manager who is most known for managing East German professional teams Erzgebirge Aue and Chemnitzer FC. Schädlich died after a long illness on 29 January 2022, at the age of 69.
Gerd Bohnsack is a German former football player and manager.
Gerd Klier was a professional German footballer.
Gerd Roggensack is a German former football player and manager.
Gerd is a common Germanic name and a unisex given name. As a masculine name it is a shortened form of Gerhard and Gerardus. As a feminine name it may be a form of Gerda or Gertrud. See also Gert.
Gerd Maye is a German lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham with the lightweight men's eight.
