Bertrand (name)

Bertrand is a given name and surname. In German, the name derives from berht ("bright") and hramn ("raven") or rand ("shield").^{[citation needed]}

People with the name include:

Given name

• Bertrand of Comminges (1050–1126), saint and Bishop of Comminges
• Bertrand Baguette (born 1986), Belgian racing driver
• Bertrand Barère (1755–1841), French politician and journalist
• Bertrand Berry (born 1975), American football player
• Bertrand Clausel (1772–1842), Marshal of France
• Bertrand Crasson (born 1971), Belgian footballer
• Bertrand Damaisin (born 1968), French judoka
• Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth century), French poet
• Bertrand Delanoë (born 1950), French politician
• Bertrand du Guesclin (c. 1320-1380), Constable of France
• Bertrand Gachot (born 1962), Franco-Belgian racing driver
• Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British philosopher
• Bertrand Serlet, a senior vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc.
• Bertrand Tavernier, a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer

Fictional characters

• Bertrand Baudelaire, a fictional character in A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Bertrand Caillet, the protagonist of Guy Endore's novel The Werewolf of Paris
• Bertrand, a monkey in the fable of The Monkey and the Cat

Surname

• Alexandre Bertrand (1820–1902), French archaeologist
• Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795–1831), French physician
• Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), French poet
• Antoine de Bertrand (c. 1540 – c. 1580), French composer
• Charles Bertrand (1824 – 1896), Quebec businessman, seigneur and political figure
• Claude Bertrand (actor) (1919–1986), French actor
• Emile Bertrand (1844–1909), French mineralogist
• Gabriel Bertrand (1867–1962), French biochemist and bacteriologist
• Gustave Bertrand (1896 – 1976), French intelligence officer
• Guy Bertrand, played in The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a Monty Python film episode
• Guy Bertrand (born 1954), French Canadian linguist and radio/tv personality
• Guy Bertrand, professor at UC Riverside and carbene specialist
• Guy Bertrand, Québec lawyer and political activist
• Guy Bertrand plays the music of Limousin
• Guy Bertrand (1881–?), son of Edith Peers-Williams and George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough
• Henri Gratien Bertrand (1773–1844), French general (First Empire)
• Henri Bertrand (1892–1978), French entomologist
• Jacques Bertrand (1817–1884), Wallon chansonnier
• Janette Bertrand (born 1925), journalist, actor, writer, and feminist of Quebec
• Jean-Jacques Bertrand (1916–1973), Premier of Quebec (1968–1970)
• Jean-Michel Bertrand (born 1943), French politician
• John Bertrand (Australian sailor) (born 1946), Australian yachtsman
• Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900), French mathematician
• Julie Winnefred Bertrand (1891–2007), one-time oldest recognized woman in the world
• Léon Bertrand (born 1951), French politician
• Louis Bertrand (disambiguation), multiple people with the name
• Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847–1907), French geologist
• Marcheline Bertrand, (1950–2007) American actress of French-Canadian descent and mother of Angelina Jolie
• Paul Bertrand (1879–1944), French botanist
• Plastic Bertrand (born 1958), Belgian singer
• Robert Bertrand (born 1953), Canadian politician
• Ryan Bertrand (born 1989), English footballer
• Xavier Bertrand (born 1965), French politician
• Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born 1946), French photographer
• Yves Bertrand (1944–2013), French intelligence officer

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