This surname has Anglo-Saxon pre-8th century origins; spelling variations include Albert, Albertson and Alberts in English names. It is derived from the Old German compound 'Aedelbeort' meaning 'noble-bright'.
However, many sources show it as a
French surname, with many spelling variations on the French form.
It is now found in many locations of the world, spread by
French Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Bez ...
refugees, amongst others.
Notable people with this surname include the following:
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Abbé Aubert (1731–1814), French playwright, poet and journalist
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Louis Aubert (painter)
Louis Aubert, called ''le Fils'', (15 May 1720, Paris – c. 1800) was an 18th-century French painter and composer, active from 1740 to 1780. The violinist and composer Jacques Aubert was his father and Abbé Aubert (1731–1814) his brother.
W ...
(1720 – ), painter and composer
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Alexander Aubert
Alexander Aubert FRS FSA, (1730–1805), was an eminent English amateur astronomer and businessman.
Life
He was born at Austin Friars, London, 11 May 1730. The appearance of the Great Comet of 1744 gave him, then a schoolboy at Geneva, a per ...
, English merchant
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Alvin Aubert
Alvin Bernard Aubert (March 1930 – January 7, 2014) was a professor of English, poet, playwright, editor, literary critic, and scholar who championed African-American culture and rural life along the southern Mississippi River. He grew up in Lut ...
(1930–2014), American poet
* Anaïs Aubert, known as
Mademoiselle Anaïs (1802–1871), French actress
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Andreas Aubert (art historian)
Fredrik Ludvig Andreas Vibe Aubert (28 January 1851 – 10 May 1913) was a Norwegian art educator, art historian and art critic.
Biography
Andreas Aubert was the son of Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert (1807-1877) who was a classical scholar and ...
, Norwegian art historian
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Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars, French naval officer
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Arnaud Aubert
Arnaud Aubert (died 11 June 1371) was nephew of Pope Innocent VI, who appointed him Bishop of Agde (1354), then Bishop of Carcassonne (1354–57) and finally Archbishop of Auch (from January 1357 until his death). He was Camerlengo of the Holy Rom ...
, Catholic Chamberlain
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Étienne Aubert
Pope Innocent VI ( la, Innocentius VI; 1282 or 1295 – 12 September 1362), born Étienne Aubert, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 18 December 1352 to his death in September 1362. He was the fifth Avignon pope a ...
, later became Pope Innocent VI
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Aubert of Avranches
Saint Aubert, also known as Saint Autbert, was bishop of Avranches in the 8th century and is credited with founding Mont Saint-Michel.
Life
Aubert lived in France during the reign of Childebert III (695-711) and died about 720. He was born of ...
,
bishop of Avranches
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Coutances (–Avranches) (Latin: ''Dioecesis Constantiensis (–Abrincensis)''; French: ''Diocèse de Coutances (–Avranches)'') is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Its mother church is the Cathe ...
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Axel Aubert
Axel Aubert (11 December 1873 – 16 December 1943) was a Norwegian chemical engineer who served as Director-General of Norsk Hydro.
Biography
He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo, Norway). He was the son of Otto Benjamin Andreas Aubert (1841–9 ...
(1873–1943), Norwegian businessman
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Ebba d'Aubert Ebba d'Aubert, née ''Bergström'' (1819–1860) was a Swedish concert pianist.
She was married to the second concert conductor at the Kungliga Hovkapellet, violinist Theodor Adolf Eduard d’Aubert. She became an Associé of the Royal Swedish Ac ...
, Swedish pianist
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François d'Aubert
François d'Aubert (born 31 October 1943, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French politician.
He is an auditor at the Court of Audit. From 2002, he was minister delegate to research in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government.
From 26 July 2007 to 16 ...
, French politician
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Hermann Rudolph Aubert
Hermann Rudolph Aubert (November 23, 1826 – February 2, 1892) was a German physiologist born in Frankfurt.
In 1850 he obtained his medical doctorate, afterwards serving as privat-docent of physiology at Breslau (1854). In 1862 he became an as ...
, German physiologist
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Jacques Aubert
Jacques Aubert (30 September 1689 – 19 May 1753), also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux (Jacques Aubert the Elder), was a French composer and violinist of the Baroque period. From 1727 to 1746, he was a member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Ro ...
(1689–1753), French composer and violinist
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Jean Aubert (architect)
Jean Aubert (ca. 1680 – 13 October 1741) was a French architect, the most successful of the ''Régence'' and designer of two of the most important buildings of the period: the stables of the Château de Chantilly and the Hôtel Biron in Pari ...
(–1741), French architect
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Jean Aubert (engineer)
Jean Aubert was a French engineer. In 1961 he used the idea of the German engineer Julius Greve from the last century to describe a ''pente d'eau'', ( en, water slope) which was a way of moving boats up the gradient of a canal without locks. Th ...
(1894–1984), French engineer
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Jean-Louis Aubert
Jean-Louis Aubert (, born 12 April 1955) is a French singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and producer. He went on a solo career after the split of the rock band Téléphone that he co-founded.
Early life
Born in Nantua, Ain, France in 1955 ...
, French guitarist, singer and songwriter
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Jeanne Aubert
Jeanne Aubert (born Jeanne Perrinot, February 21, 1900 – March 6, 1988) was a French singer and actress.
Biography
Aubert was born in Paris, France, to a single mother, Augustine Marguerite Perrinot, who pushed her daughter into a career in ...
, French singer and actress
* , French painter
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Julien Aubert
Julien Aubert (born 11 June 1978) is a French politician and civil servant who represented the 5th constituency of the Vaucluse department in the National Assembly from 2012 to 2022. A member of The Republicans (LR) and its predecessor parties ...
(born 1978), French politician
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K. D. Aubert
Karen Denise Aubert, (born December 6, 1978) also known as K.D. Rose, is an American actress, fashion model and singer. She owns her own record label, Roseland.
Early life
Aubert was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on December 6, 1978. She desc ...
, American actress
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Louis Aubert
Louis François Marie Aubert (19 February 1877 – 9 January 1968) was a French composer.
Biography
Born in Paramé, Ille-et-Vilaine, Louis Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son's musical talent, sent him to Paris to rec ...
, French composer
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Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars
Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (5 November 1758, Bournois – 12 May 1831, Paris) was an eminent French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion.
Introd ...
, French botanist
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Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert
Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert (30 March 1807 – 14 June 1887) was a Norwegian philologist. Biography
Aubert was born in Christianssand (now Kristiansand), Norway. He was the son of Benoni Aubert (1768–1832) and Jakobine Henriette Thaulow (1776â ...
, Norwegian philologist
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Ludvig Mariboe Benjamin Aubert
Ludvig Mariboe Benjamin Aubert (22 November 1838 – 5 February 1896) was a Norwegian professor, jurist and government official.
Biography
Aubert was born at Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of professor Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aube ...
, Norwegian jurist and politician
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Marie-Hélène Aubert
Marie-Hélène Aubert (born 16 November 1955 in Nantes) is a French politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the West of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political ...
, French politician
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Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé
Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1814–7 March 1841) was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first French Canadian novel. Career
Philippe-Ignace-Francois was tutored by his father ...
, Canadian writer
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Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and seigneur
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Pierre Aubert
Pierre Aubert (3 March 1927 – 8 June 2016) was a Swiss politician, lawyer and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1978–1987).
Political career
He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 7 December 1977 as member of the Social Democratic ...
, Swiss politician
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Puig Aubert
Puig Aubert (born Robert Aubert Puig, 24 March 1925 – 3 June 1994), is often considered the best French rugby league footballer of all-time. Over a 16-year professional career he would play for Carcassonne, XIII Catalan, Celtic de Paris and Ca ...
, French rugby league footballer
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Raphaël Aubert, Swiss writer and essayist
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Suzanne Aubert
Suzanne Aubert (19 June 1835 – 1 October 1926), better known to many by her cleric name Sister Mary Joseph or Mother Aubert, was a Catholic sister who started a home for orphans and the under-privileged in Jerusalem, New Zealand on the Whangan ...
, Catholic sister
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Vilhelm Aubert
Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 – 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1963 to 1971 and at the Department of Sociology from 1971 to 1988. He co-founded th ...
, Norwegian sociologist
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Vilhelm Mariboe Aubert, Norwegian jurist
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Aubert (noble family)
Aubert or d'Aubert is a family of the French nobility, and a branch belongs also to the Nobility of Denmark and to the Nobility of Norway. The family originates in the town of Thionville in Lothringen, where their progenitor Jean Aubert was a me ...
, a noble family of
Denmark
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and
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
See also
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Albert
Albert may refer to:
Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Alber ...
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Aubèrt
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Aubertin
Aubertin () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Aubertinois'' or ''Aubertinoises''.
Geography
Aubertin is located in Béa ...
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