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• Gerard
  Gerard

  noun

  Also a male given name, form of Gerald.
• Gérard
  Gérard

  noun

  Comte Étienne Maurice 1773–1852, French marshal under Napoleon.

Gerard

¹ American  

[juh-rahrd] / dʒəˈrɑrd /

noun

1. Also a male given name, form of Gerald.

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Gérard ² American  

[zhey-rahr] / ʒeɪˈrɑr /

noun

1. Comte Étienne Maurice 1773–1852, French marshal under Napoleon.

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Gérard British  

/ ʒerar /

noun

1. François ( Pascal Simon ), Baron. 1770–1837, French painter, court painter to Napoleon I and Louis XVIII

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Gerard Gérard

Gerard Helferich, the author of “An Unlikely Trust,” on episodes in the life of the 26th president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The newspaper said Yamal's house is well known because it once belonged to Barcelona great Gerard Pique and his ex-partner, Colombian music star Shakira, when they lived together in the Catalan capital.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Three years later, it partnered with the art collective Gerard & Kelly on an experimental project performed inside modernist dwellings, including the Schindler House.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Co-defendant Gerard Farmer, of Westlake in Derry, pleaded guilty to three charges between 2011 and 2013 and was jailed for 21 months.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Only a few astronomers, notably Gerard Kuiper, the Dutch-born astronomer for whom the Kuiper belt of comets is named, took any interest in the solar system at all.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Handel bids us “Rejoice Greatly”; we do so with the benefit of a weirdo 19th century Frenchman, one Gérard de Nerval.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

And during Ms. Kealani’s closing paean to Charles X, once again sensitively accompanied by the solo harp, the Gérard picture slowly assembled, with the painting itself finally projected onto the singers and Paulo Fantin’s set.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

In French that is full of mistakes, the video's text accuses Justice Minister Gérard Darmanin of declaring "war" on prisoners.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025

Macron acknowledged only one “regret” in response to a question about his apparent siding with actor Gérard Depardieu, who is facing sexual misconduct allegations, in televised remarks last month.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

Gérard Desargues, a seventeenth-century French architect, was one of the early pioneers of projective geometry.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife