Gerard Francis Martin (born 28 May 1946), a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Bathurst between 1999 and 2011 for the Labor Party.^[1]

Martin has worked as an administrator in the coal industry for 30 years and is married with two children. He was a councillor on the Lithgow City Council from 1974 to 1999 and was the longest-serving mayor of Lithgow, for sixteen years.^[2][3] Prior to entering New South Wales politics, he was previously Deputy Chair, Central West Regional Development Board, and is a former chairman of Blayney Abattior County Council.

In Parliament, he was Government Whip and was a member of both the Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management and the Standing Orders and Procedure Committee.

Martin, a Catholic,^[4] expressed his opposition to stem cell research in 2007 by voting against legislation allowing the practice. The bill subsequently passed.^[5]

On 19 October 2010, Martin announced his decision to not seek re-election for the seat of Bathurst at the 2011 state election.^[3][6]