Gertrude (given name)
| Gertrude | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Germanic |
| Meaning | derived from words meaning "spear" and "strength" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Gertrud, Geertruida, Geltrude, Gertrudis, Kerttu |
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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.
For a list of fictional characters and people known by only one name, see Gertrude (disambiguation)
"Gartred" is a rare variation (attested in Daphne du Maurier's novel The King's General, taking place in 17th Century Cornwall) (see , ).
See Names in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries for a curiosity with this name.
People with this name include:
- Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), American painter based in Chicago
- Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942), Swedish suffragist
- 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 (born 1845), 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 (died 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
- 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
- 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 Chandler Warner (1890–1979), American author, mainly of children's stories
- 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 squad
Songs about Gertrude
- "Gertrude's Bounce", composed by Bud Powell, performed by the Clifford Brown and Max Roach quintet in the album Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street