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Gertrude (given name)

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Gender
  
Female

Word/name
  
Germanic

Meaning
  
derived from words meaning "spear" and "strength"

Related names
  
Gertrud, Geertruida, Geltrude, Gertrudis, Kerttu

Gertrude (also spelled Gertrud) is a female given name which is derived from Germanic roots that meant "spear" and "strength". "Trudy", originally a diminutive of "Gertrude", has developed into a name in its own right.

"Gartred" is a rare variation (attested in Daphne du Maurier's novel The King's General, set in 17th Century Cornwall

People with this name

  • Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), American painter based in Chicago
  • Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942), Swedish suffragist
  • Gertrud Ahlgren (1782–1874), Swedish folk healer
  • Gertrude Alderfer [Gert] (born 1931), former first basewoman and catcher
  • Gertrude Appleyard (1865–1917), British archer
  • Gertrude Aretz née Kuntze-Dolton (1889–1938), German historian and publisher
  • Lillian Gertrud Asplund (1906–2006), last survivor remembering the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912
  • Gertrude Astor (1887–1977), American motion picture character actress
  • Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), American writer
  • Gertrud Bacher (born 1971), retired Italian heptathlete
  • Gertrude Baines (1894–2009), the world's oldest living person from 2 January 2009 until 11 September 2009
  • Gertrude Bambrick (1897–1974), American actress of the silent era
  • Gertrude Baniszewski (1929–1990), tortured Sylvia Likens to death in Indiana, USA in the 1960s
  • Gertrud Barkhorn, fictional character from the anime/manga series Strike Witches
  • Gertrud Bäumer (1873–1954), German politician and Feminist
  • Gertrude Bell, CBE (1868–1926), archaeologist and spy
  • Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948), writer of fantasy and science fiction in the U.S.
  • Gertrude Berg (1894–1966), American actress and screenwriter
  • Gertrude Bernard, also known as Anahareo, (1906–1986), Mohawk woman and companion of Grey Owl
  • Gertrud Bing (1892–1964), scholar and Director of the Warburg Institute
  • Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American mathematician
  • Gertrude Bloede (1845 - 1905), United States poet
  • Gertrude Blom (1901–1993), Swiss journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer
  • Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857–1911), Irish-born journalist, author, playwright, and editor
  • Gertrude Bonnin or Zitkala-Sa (1876–1938), Sioux writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist
  • Gertrude Bryan (1888–1976), stage actress on Broadway
  • Gertrude Caton–Thompson (1888–1985), English archaeologist
  • Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951), child-friend of author Lewis Carroll
  • Gertrude Claire (1852–1928), actress of the American stage and Hollywood silent films
  • Gertrude Colburn (1886 - 1968), American dancer and sculptor
  • Gertrude Cosgrove (1882–1962), the wife of Sir Robert Cosgrove, twice elected as Premier of Tasmania
  • Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter, a lady at the court of Henry VIII of England
  • Gertrude Crain (1911–1996), American publishing executive
  • Gertrude Crampton (1909–1996), author of children's books
  • Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman, GBE (1884–1954), British woman active in women's rights issues
  • Gertrud Hedwig Anna Dohm or Hedwig Pringsheim (1855–1942), German actress
  • Gertrude Walton Donahey (1908–2004), politician
  • Gertrude Dunn (1933–2004), American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  • Gertrude Ederle (1905–2003), American competitive swimmer
  • Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and pharmacologist
  • Gertrude Elles MBE (1872–1960), British geologist, known for her work on graptolites
  • Gertrud Fridh (1921–1984), Swedish stage and film actress
  • Gertrude Gabl (1948–1976), alpine skier from Austria
  • Gertrude Gadwall, fictional character
  • Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, German scientist
  • Gertrude Himmelfarb (born 1922), also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian
  • Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), gardener
  • Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Klasen or Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952), English actress, singer and musical comedy performer
  • Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová, Czech three-time table tennis world champion
  • Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), German lyric poet and writer
  • Gertrud Kraus (born 1901), pioneer of modern dance in Israel
  • Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952), one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century
  • Gertrud Luckner (1900–1995), Christian resister against Nazism
  • Gertrud Månsson, Swedish politician, first woman in the Stockholm city council.
  • Gertrud Elisabeth Mara [née Schmeling] (1749–1833), German operatic soprano
  • Sarah Gertrude Millin (1889–1968), author
  • Gertrude Mongella, ambassador from Tanzania
  • Gertrude Morgan (1900–1980), preacher, and missionary
  • Gertrude Neumark, American physicist
  • Gertrude Clare Owens, (1887–1963), Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
  • Gertrud Paetsch (born 1910), German ethnolog and philolog in the area of Cartvelology
  • Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren (1897–1991), Swedish mezzosoprano
  • Gertrude Pridgett Rainey (1882–1939), AKA Ma Rainey, blues singer
  • Gertrud Rask (1673–1735), the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede
  • Gertrud Rittmann (1908–2005), German composer and music arranger who lived and worked in the United States
  • Gertrud Schoenberg (1898–1967), the second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg
  • Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902–1999), fervent Nazi Party (NSDAP) member in Nazi Germany
  • Gertrud Schüpbach Swiss-American molecular biologist
  • Gertrud Skomagers (died 1556), Danish alleged witch
  • Gertrud Stefanek (born 1959), Hungarian fencer
  • Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), writer
  • Gertrud Szabolcsi (1923–1993), biochemist
  • Gertrude "Luna" Vachon (1962-2010), American professional wrestler.
  • Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979), American author, mainly of children's stories
  • Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector
  • Gertrude Weil (1879–1971), American involved in women's suffrage, labor reform, and civil rights
  • Gertrud Wolle (1891–1952), German film actress
  • Gertrud Margarete Zelle (1876–1917), aka Mata Hari, Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy executed by firing sq­

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