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 and players 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.
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, who is currently serving 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 Zewe is a German former football player and manager.
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 Nagel is a retired West German high jumper.
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 was a German football player and manager.
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.
Gerd Sredzki is a rower who competed for East Germany. He was twice world champion in the eight event.
