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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