Pekker Gerdvi Yakovlevich (b. 29 November 1923, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR) — physician.

Gerdvi Pekker graduated from secondary school in 1942. In June 1942, he was drafted into the Soviet Army as a private. In March 1944, he was discharged from military service. In the autumn of 1944, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute named after Stalin, graduating in the summer of 1949. He was then assigned to work as a physician in the Crimean region at the urological sanatorium “Mechta.” In April 1950, he was sent to the Latvian Directorate of Resorts and Sanatoriums for placement at a neurological sanatorium.

In July 1950, he was assigned to the Griva District under the authority of the Griva District Health Department of the Latvian SSR.

His father was an associate professor in the Department of Political Economy at the Moscow Plekhanov Institute of Economics.

His mother was a lawyer with the Moscow City Bar Association.

His wife, Liliya Viktorovna Volodina, was a pediatrician.