Gerrit
Gerrit is a Dutch male name meaning "brave with the spear", the Dutch and Frisian form of Gerard. People with this name include:
- Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
- Gerrit van Arkel, Dutch architect
- Gerrit Badenhorst, South African powerlifter and professional strongman competitor
- Gerrit Battem, Dutch landscape painter
- Gerrit Beneker, American painter and illustrator
- Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch painter
- Gerrit Berkhoff, Dutch chemist and university rector
- Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer, Dutch theologian
- Gerrit Berveling, Dutch Esperanto author
- Gerrit Blaauw, Dutch computer engineer
- Gerrit de Blanken, Dutch pottery artist
- Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter
- Gerrit Bol, Dutch mathematician
- Gerrit Braamcamp, Dutch distiller, timber merchant and art collector
- Gerrit den Braber, Dutch songwriter and lyricist
- Gerrit Broekstra, Dutch scientist and professor
- Gerrit Cole, American baseball pitcher
- Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp, Dutch painter and stained glass artist
- Gerrit J. Diekema, American politician
- Gerrit van Dijk, Dutch animator, film maker, actor and painter
- Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter
- Gerrit L. Dox, American politician
- Gerrit Faulhaber, Dutch-Indonesian footballer
- Gerrit Fauser, German ice hockey player
- Gerrit Ferreira, South African businessman
- Gerrit Fischer, Dutch footballer
- Gerrit Fokkema, Australian photographer
- Gerrit Forbes, American judge
- Gerrit De Geest, Belgian legal scholar
- Gerrit van Gelderen, Dutch-born Irish naturalist, wildlife broadcaster, film-maker, illustrator and cartoonist
- Gerrit Van Gestel, Belgian former cyclist
- Gerrit Glas, Dutch philosopher and psychiatrist
- Gerrit Glomser, Austrian racing cyclist
- Gerrit David Gratama, Dutch artist, writer and museum director
- Gerrit Govaars, Dutch teacher and Salvation Army officer
- Gerrit Graham, American actor and songwriter
- Gerrit Holdijk, Dutch politician
- Gerrit Holtmann, German footballer
- Gerrit van Houten, Dutch painter and artist
- Gerrit van Iterson, Dutch botanist and professor
- Gerrit de Jager, Dutch cartoonist
- Gerrit de Jong Jr., Dutch-born American art teacher, pedagogue and professor
- Gerrit Kastein, Dutch communist, neurologist and WWII resistance fighter
- Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, Dutch Christian minister and politician
- Gerrit Kleerekoper, Dutch gymnastics coach
- Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet
- Gerrit Korteweg, Dutch swimmer
- Gerrit Kouwenaar, Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer
- Gerrit Krol, Dutch author, essayist and writer
- Gerrit Kruize, American field hockey player
- Ger Lagendijk, Dutch footballer
- Gerrit Lamberts, Dutch painter and museum curator
- Gerrit Y. Lansing, American politician
- Gerrit Lekkerkerker, Dutch mathematician
- Gerrit Lundens, Dutch painter
- Gerrit van der Meer, Dutch television producer, film producer and unit production manager
- Gerrit Nauber, German footballer
- Gerrit Niekoop, Surinamese football player
- Gerrit Noordzij, Dutch typographer, typeface designer, and author
- Gerrit Olivier, South African academic and diplomat
- Gerrit Oosting, Dutch politician
- Gerrit Opperman, South African Army General
- Gerrit Paape, Dutch earthenware and stoneware painter, poet, journalist, novelist, judge, columnist and civil servant
- Gerrit Patist, Dutch sculptor and ceramist
- Gerrit Pels, Dutch astronomer
- Gerrit Plomp, Dutch footballer
- Gerrit van Poelje, founder of Public Administration in the Netherlands
- Gerrit Pressel, German footballer
- Gerrit Radstaak, Canadian politician
- Gerrit Reynst, Dutch merchant and art collector
- Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect
- Gerrit Roos, Dutch weightlifter
- Gerrit Rudolph, South African-born Namibian cricketer
- Gerrit van Santen, Dutch painter and writer
- Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch businessman and statesman
- Gerrit Schipper, Dutch painter
- Gerrit Schotte, Curaçao optician
- Gerrit Schouten, Surinamese artist
- Gerrit Schulte, Dutch track bicycle racer
- Gerrit Smith, American abolitionist
- Gerrit van Spaan, Dutch writer
- Gerrit Stoeten, Spanish footballer
- Gerrit T. Thorn, American politician
- Gerrit van Uylenburgh, Dutch painter and art-dealer
- Gerrit van der Veen, Dutch sculptor and member of the Dutch Resistance in WWII
- Gerrit de Veer, Dutch military officer and explorer
- Gerrit Verschuur, South African-born American scientist
- Gerrit Viljoen, South African politician
- Gerrit Cornelisz Vlasman, Dutch brewer
- Gerrit van Voorst, Dutch swimmer
- Gerrit de Vries , Dutch jurist and politician, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Gerrit de Vries , road racing cyclist
- Gerrit van Wees, Dutch cyclist
- Gerrit de Wet, Dutch painter
- Gerrit Zalm, Dutch politician
- Gerrit Zegelaar, Dutch painter
