Gabriel Ferry is the pen name of two French writers, father and son.
The elder, Eugène Louis Gabriel Ferry de Bellemare (November 1809 Grenoble - 3 January 1852), wrote adventure novels.
He died at the age of 41 on his way to California, when the ship Amazon sunk in the Bay of Biscay after a fire probably caused by the engine bearings overheating.
His most famous novel Le Coureur de Bois was 1879 revised for young readers under the title Der Waldläufer by the German writer Karl May.
The younger Ferry wrote a number of plays, Réginah (1874), being one of the best.