Gero (first name)
Origin and meaning
Gero is of Old High German origin ( ger = spear) or the short form of Gerold.
name day
Name bearer
middle Ages
- Gero (≈900–965), Margrave Otto I the Great
- Gero of Cologne (900–976), Archbishop of Cologne, nephew Geros
- Gero von Alsleben († 979), Saxon count, nephew Geros
- Gero (Lausitz) (975-1015), Margrave of Lausitz, great-nephew Geros
- Gero of Magdeburg († 1023), Archbishop of Magdeburg
- Gero (Werden) , 1052 to 1059 abbot of Werden and Helmstedt
- Gero von Brehna (1020-1089)
- Gero von Halberstadt , 1160 to 1177 Bishop of Halberstadt
First name
- Gero Bisanz (1935–2014), German soccer player and coach
- Gero von Boehm (* 1954), German journalist
- Gero Bühler (* 1968), German doctor, writer and poet
- Gero Debusmann (* 1943), German judge
- Gero Dolezalek (* 1943), German lawyer
- Gero Drnek (* 1960), German musician
- Gero Erhardt (* 1943), cameraman, son of Heinz Erhardt
- Gero Fischer (judge) (* 1943), German lawyer and judge
- Gero Fischer (Slavist) (* 1944), Austrian Slavist
- Gero Friedrich (1900–1946), German judge and mayor
- Gero Friesecke (* 1964), German mathematician
- Gero Gandert (1929–2019), German film scholar
- Gero Gemballa (1961–2002), German journalist and author
- Gero Hilliger (* 1943), German caricaturist and draftsman
- Gero Himmelsbach (* 1965), German lawyer
- Gero Clemens Hocker (* 1975), German politician (FDP)
- Gero Hütter (* 1968), German hematologist
- Gero Madelung (1928–2018), German aerospace engineer, manager and university professor
- Gero von Merhart (1886–1959), German prehistoric
- Gero von Randow (* 1953), German journalist
- Gero Storjohann (* 1958), German politician
- Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009), German-Baltic literary scholar
family name
- Ihan Gero (≈1518–1553), Franco-Flemish composer