Famous People with Name Gerald

Gerald Jermaine Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gerald Jermaine Wallace: is a professional basketball forward for the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA.Wallace started immediately for the club, and went on to have an impressive season, averaging 11.1 points, 5.5 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 1.3 blocks a game. He continued to improve in 2005-06, before getting injured in January, averaging 14.5 points and 7 rebounds, and ranking in the top 10 in the NBA in field goal percentage (54.142), blocks (2.19), and steals per game (2.44). Since the NBA began counting blocks as a statistic in 1973, only two other players (David Robinson and Hakeem Olajuwon) in league history have averaged over 2.0 blocks and 2.0 steals per game in a single season. Wallace is now the heart and soul of the Charlotte franchise scoring nearly twenty points if not more in every game. His leadership and hustle inspires the team.

Gerald Jerry Wexler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gerald Jerry Wexler: is a music journalist turned music producer, and is regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950's through the 1980's. He coined the term "Rhythm & Blues", and was integral in signing and/or producing many of the biggest acts of the last 50 years, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield, and Bob Dylan. Wexler was inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

Gerald George McNeil            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gerald George McNeil: is a former professional ice hockey goaltender who won two Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1950s.While Gerald is a three-time cup winner, fans will forever remember the Québec City, Québec native for two Cup-winning goals he gave up: to the Toronto Maple Leafs' Bill Barilko (1951), and a shot by Detroit Red Wings player Tony Leswick that was deflected by teammate Doug Harvey into the Canadiens goal (1954). McNeil was so frustrated by the Harvey own-goal, he retired to coach junior hockey the next season, but returned to the Habs in 1956 to earn his second Cup as back-up to Hall of Famer Jacques Plante (1956–1957). During the 1958 playoffs McNeil was called up as spare goalie by Montreal, His name was engraved on the Stanley Cup, but he did not play. His last game in the NHL was during the 1956–57 regular season.

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.: was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the fortieth Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. Ford was the fifth U.S. President never to have been elected to that position, and the only one never to have won a national election at all. He was the longest lived president in U.S. history, living to age 93.

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan: was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups.

Tara FitzGerald            Origin/Culture/Country: England`

Tara FitzGerald: She is the daughter of Sarah FitzGerald, an artist and photographer, who is Irish[citation needed] and her father Michael Callaby was English. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Freeport, in the Bahamas, where her sister Arabella was born in 196

Edward Raymond Fitz Gerald            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward Raymond Fitz Gerald: is a former catcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1948-1959 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians. He attended Saint Mary's College of California. Used primarily in a backup role throughout his career, he saw substantial playing time as a rookie with the 1948 Pirates, and again with the Senators from 1953 to 1955. He ended his career with a .260 batting average, 19 home runs and 217 runs batted in in 807 games.

Gaston Gerald            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gaston Gerald: is a former American politician from Greenwell Springs in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, who was imprisoned in the early 1980s for extortion of a bribe from a Baton Rouge contractor. He succeeded council member W.W. Dumas upon Dumas' election as mayo

Luis Pereira Geraldes            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Luis Pereira Geraldes: is a contemporary metaphysical Portuguese artist

Leonardo De Jesus Geraldo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Leonardo De Jesus Geraldo: is a Brazilian soccer player currently playing for Greek Champions Olympiakos FC. The 23-year-old left back played for Portuguesa, a first division side in Brazil. Reports suggest that Olympiacos paid €1.8 million for the Brazilian.