Gertrude (given name)

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 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

See also

• Gertrudis