Arts and Music

• Gerard Schwartz (born 1947)

  American conductor, composer and trumpeter.

  • Under his direction, the Seattle Symphony has won numerous Grammys for their recordings (see list of Conductors)

Leadership

• Gerard Swope (born 1872, died 1957)

  American economist and industrialist.

  • Headed General Electric (see list of Miscellaneous Business Leaders)

Science and Philosophy

• Gerard Debreu

  French-American economist known for incorporating new analytic methods into economic theory.

  • 1983 Nobel Prize winner for Economics (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics)

Sports

• Gerard Cote

  Canadian runner.

  • 1940, 1943-44, 1948 Boston Marathon champion (see list of Boston Marathon Winners)

Stage and Screen

• Gérard Depardieu (born 1948)

  French actor, director and producer.

  • Winner of the 1990 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Cyrano de Bergerac (see list of Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Winners)

The Literary World

• Gerard Manley Hopkins (born 1844, died 1889)

  English poet.

  • Wrote ''''The Windhover'''' (see list of Poets of the Victorian Era)
• Gerard M. O'Neill
  • 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner for Investigative Reporting (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting)