Gerard Spong (born 9 June 1946) is a Dutch lawyer of Surinamese descent.

In 1978, Spong defended the interests of Knut Folkerts, Christof Wackernagel and Gert Schneider, three members of the Red Army Faction who were arrested in the Netherlands in 1977 and imprisoned in Maastricht.

[2] In 1980, he defended a number of opponents of the then Surinamese dictator Desi Bouterse in Paramaribo, who had to appear before the ward council.

One of the students asked Spong why Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician, had never been prosecuted for hate speech.

Spong replied that public prosecutors lacked guts, and freely offered his services to file charges against Wilders on behalf of the students.