Gerald Rafferty, meglio conosciuto come Gerry Rafferty (Paisley, 16 aprile 1947 – Bournemouth, 4 gennaio 2011), è stato un cantautore scozzese.

In 1978, Gerry Rafferty wrote a song, the immortal Baker Street, which talks about how a man spends his life trying to defeat a beast that gnaws and digs inside his head, dragging him into a degradation made up of falls and false hopes.