# 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 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 Lang (1924-2016), German botanist
* Gerhard Lenski (1924–2015), American sociologist of German descent
* Gerhard Mayer (born 1980), Austrian discus thrower
* Gerhard Mitter (1935–1969), German racing driver
* Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705–1783), German historian and ethnologist
* Gerd Müller, (1945–2021), German football striker
* 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, Chancellor of Germany 1998-2005
* 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 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 Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867), German archaeologist
* Johann Gerhard (1582–1637), German religious leader
* Karl Gerhard (1891–1964), Swedish revue-writer and performer
* Keegan Gerhard (born 1960), German pastry chef
* Peter Gerhard (1920–2006), American historical geographer
* Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970), Spanish Catalan composer
* Till Gerhard (born 1971), German painter
* Mark Gerhard, CEO of Jagex

## Pseudonym or professional name

* Gerhard (cartoonist) (born 1959), Canadian illustrator and cartoonist