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Gerson Baldé Gerson Baldé (born 28 January 2000) is a Portuguese long jumper and high jumper. He is a multiple-time national champion in both disciplines. He competed in the long jump at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships. Career From Albufeira, ...

(born 2000), Portuguese athlete *

Gerson von Bleichröder Gerson von Bleichröder (22 December 1822 – 18 February 1893) was a Jewish German banker. He was also a close confidant of Otto von Bismarck, serving as his financial agent. He became the first non-converted Jew in Prussia to be granted a her ...

(1822–1893), Jewish German banker *

Gérson Caçapa Gérson Cândido de Paula (born 1 June 1967), known as Gérson Caçapa, is a Brazilian former professional association football, footballer, who played as a midfielder, usually as an attacking midfielder. Gérson Caçapa played for Sociedade Es ...

(born 1967), Brazilian former footballer *

Gerson Goldhaber Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson, which is the bound state of a charm quark and a charm anti-quark. Together ...

(1924–2010), German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist * Gerson Guimarães Júnior, (born 1992), Brazilian footballer *

Gérson Magrão Gérson Alencar de Lima Júnior (born 13 June 1985), known as Gérson Magrão, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ipatinga. Magrão has played professionally in Brazil, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Portugal. Car ...

(born 1985), Brazilian footballer *

Gerson Mayen Gerson Levi Mayen Villavicencio (born 9 February 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Primera División club Municipal Limeño. Born in the United States, he plays for the El Salvador national team at international ...

(born 1989), Salvadoran-American footballer *

Gérson Gérson de Oliveira Nunes (; born 11 January 1941), generally known as Gérson, is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a midfielder. He won numerous national trophies with the club sides of Flamengo, Botafogo, São Paulo and ...

or Gérson de Oliveira Nunes (born 1941), Brazilian footballer *

Gerson Rosenzweig Gerson Rosenzweig (; April 1861 – 14 February 1914) was a Russian-American editor, author, and poet. He is best known for his Hebrew- and Yiddish-language satires, poems, and epigrams. Biography Born in Białystok, Rosenzweig received his educa ...

(1861–1914), writer and poet *

Gerson (footballer, born 1997) Gerson Santos da Silva (born 20 May 1997), simply known as Gerson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo and the Brazil national team. Club career Fluminense Born in ...

(Gerson Santos da Silva), Brazilian footballer *

Gérson dos Santos Gérson dos Santos (14 July 1922 – 5 June 2002), was a Brazilian professional footballer and manager, who played as a midfielder. Career Gérson dos Santos began his career at Pitangui FC in Belo Horizonte. As a professional, he arrived at ...

(1922–2002), Brazilian footballer and manager * Gerson dos Santos (footballer, born 1982) (Gerson Pereira dos Santos Filho), Brazilian footballer *

Gérson da Silva Gérson Pereira da Silva, (September 23, 1965 – May 17, 1994), sometimes known as just Gérson, was a Brazilian association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward. Biography Gerson da Silva’s talents be ...

(1965–1994), Brazilian footballer *

Gerson Victalino Gerson Victalino (19 September 1959 – 29 April 2020), also commonly known simply as Gerson, was a Brazilian professional basketball player. National team career With the senior Brazilian national basketball team, Victalino won a silver medal ...

(1959–2020), Brazilian Olympic basketball player * Gerson Boom, fictional character in the video games ''

Undertale ''Undertale'' is a 2015 role-playing video game created by American indie developer Toby Fox. The player controls a child who has fallen into the Underground: a large, secluded region under the surface of the Earth, separated by a magical b ...

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Deltarune ''Deltarune'' is an episodic role-playing video game in development by Toby Fox as a follow-up to his 2015 video game ''Undertale''. In the game, the player controls a human teenager, Kris, who is destined to save the world together with Susie ...

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Dora Gerson Dora Gerson (born Dorothea Gerson; 23 March 1899 – 14 February 1943) was a German cabaret singer and stage and motion picture actress of the silent film era. She was murdered at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Life and career Born Dorothea Ger ...

(1899–1943), German Jewish actress and cabaret singer killed at Auschwitz *

Felix N. Gerson Felix Napoleon Gerson (October 18, 1862 – December 13, 1945) was a Jewish-American author, journalist, and newspaper editor from Philadelphia. Life Gerson was born on October 18, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Aaron Gerson and ...

(1862–1945), American newspaper editor * Georg Hartog Gerson (1788–1844), German surgeon in the King’s German Legion during the Napoleonic Wars *

Horst Gerson Horst Gerson (2 March 1907 – 10 June 1978) was a German-Dutch art historian. Biography Gerson was born in Berlin on 2 March 1907, and after studying art history in Vienna, he became a pupil and assistant of Cornelis Hofstede de Groot and worke ...

(1907–1978) was a German-Dutch art historian. *

Jean Gerson Jean Charlier de Gerson (13 December 1363 – 12 July 1429) was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Cou ...

(1363–1429), French scholar and theologian *

John Gerson John Gerson was deputy head of MI6. He studied Art History at the University of Freiburg and then went to King's College, Cambridge. He went to India on the Commonwealth Expedition (COMEX) in 1965. He was HM Consul in Beijing from 1974 to 19 ...

, deputy head of MI6 *

José Gerson Ramos José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced ...

(born 1981), Brazilian footballer also known as simply Gérson *

Karen Gerşon Şarhon Karen Gerşon Şarhon (born 1958) is a scholar of Judaeo-Spanish and the coordinator of the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Research Center. Early life and education Gerşon was born on 25 May 1958 in Istanbul, Turkey to Suzi (Sultana) and Beni (Baruh) ...

(born 1958), Turkish scholar *

Marlene Gerson Marlene Gerson (born June 1940) is a female former tennis player from South Africa who was active in the late 1950s and the first half of the 1960s. Her best singles result at the Wimbledon Championships was reaching the third round in 1959. P ...

(born 1940), South African tennis player *

Max Gerson Max Gerson (October 18, 1881 – March 8, 1959) was a German-born American physician who developed the Gerson therapy, a pseudoscientific dietary-based alternative cancer treatment that he falsely claimed could cure cancer and most chronic, ...

(1881–1959), German physician, known for Gerson therapy, an alternative therapy for cancer and chronic diseases *

Michael Gerson Michael John Gerson (May 15, 1964 – November 17, 2022) was an American journalist and speechwriter. He was a neoconservative op-ed columnist for ''The Washington Post'', a Policy Fellow with One Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center fo ...

(1964–2022), newspaper columnist and former speechwriter and adviser to US President George W. Bush *

Noel Gerson Noel Bertram Gerson (1913–1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, '' The Naked Maja'', and '' 55 Days at Peking''.Peacock, ...

(1913–1988), American author *

Victor Gerson Haim Victor Gerson DSO, LdH (1st of August 1896, Southport, Royaume-Uni - 14 of April 1983, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), code name Rene, was a Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War. He organised the Vic escape line in Fra ...

, French resistance in World War II *

Wojciech Gerson Wojciech Gerson (; 1 July 1831 – 25 February 1901) was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long ...

(1831–1901), Polish painter and academic

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