Gerson Veniamin Leonardovich (b. 1891, Tukums, Courland Governorate – d. 26 January 1940) – Intelligence officer.

Veniamin Gerson joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1917. In 1918, he served as Secretary of the Military Control Department of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. From 1919, he was Secretary of the Special Department of the Cheka. Between February 1920 and July 1926, he worked as Secretary to the Chairman of the Cheka–OGPU, Felix Dzerzhinsky—during which time he contributed significantly to collecting documents for Dzerzhinsky’s biography while serving on the commission commemorating him. Concurrently, from 1922, he was Assistant Manager of Affairs at the GPU–OGPU, and from 1936, Assistant Head of the NKVD Secretariat of the USSR. He held the rank of Major in the State Security (GB) from 1935. In 1938, he became Head of the Directorate of the Central Council of the Dynamo Sports Society.

Veniamin Gerson was awarded two badges of “Honoured Worker of the Cheka–GPU”. Arrested on 3 March 1938, he was executed following a verdict by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 26 January 1940. Posthumously rehabilitated in 1955.