Gerhard Hamilton Brand (8 October 1906 – 4 February 1996) was a Springbok rugby union footballer who played in 16 tests between 1928 and 1938.

[2][5] Brand's 55 test career points for the Springboks set a 27-year record (1938–65), which was eventually surpassed by Keith Oxlee.

[10] He attended Sea Point Boys High School,[11] and as a young man played scrum-half for Hamiltons, whose name he carried.

[13] During the rugby off-season Brand and his fellow Hamilton players supported and played for the local baseball team, the Sea Point Cardinals.

[16] The newspaper speculated that Brand could be chosen for a proposed exchange of baseball tours between South Africa and Japan.

[15] Brand was first selected to play for Western Province in 1927, the year that his team won the Currie Cup championships.

[6] Along the way Brand scored 24 points in a match against South Western Districts, a record for a provincial game that stood until 1950, when it was surpassed by Basie Viviers.

[21] Brand and his 1937 teammates remain the only Springbok team so far "to win a full test series on New Zealand soil".

At Cape Town's Newlands Stadium Brand led the Western Province to a 21–11 triumph to which he contributed nine points.

A record crowd of 36,000 watched Brand kick 14 points (4 conversions and 2 penalties) in the Springboks' 26–12 defeat of the Lions.