Birgit is a female given name, a short form of Birgitta and ultimately a Germanic form of the

Gaelic Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...

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Bridget Bridget is an Irish language, Irish female name derived from the Goidelic languages, Gaelic noun ''brígh'', meaning "power, strength, vigor, virtue". An alternate meaning of the name is "exalted one". Its popularity, especially in Ireland, is la ...

. Notable people with the name include: *

Birgit Brüel Birgit Brüel (born 6 October 1927 – died 23 February 1996) was a Danish singer and actress who participated in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. Brüel's professional career began in 1950 when she joined the Max Brüel Quartet as a jazz sin ...

, Danish singer and actress *

Birgit Collin-Langen Birgit Collin-Langen (born 4 September 1956) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2012 until 2019. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. Career Betwee ...

, German politician *

Birgit Cunningham Birgit Cunningham (born 6 January 1963) is a British American events organiser, activist, and campaigner for the rights of single mothers. Early life Cunningham was born in San Francisco, the daughter of a treasurer of the Bank of America and a ...

, Anglo-American activist *

Birgit Doll Birgit Doll (9 March 1956 – 26 October 2015) was an Austrian actress of stage, screen and television and theatre director. She made her professional theatre debut at the age of 20 and won the Kainz Medal in 1992 for her performance of '' Libussa ...

, Austrian actress and theatre director *

Birgit Finnilä Birgit Finnilä (born 20 January 1931) is a Sweden, Swedish contralto and opera singer. Finnilä was born in Falkenberg, Sweden and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She made her operatic debut in Gothenburg in 1967. Though princip ...

, Swedish opera singer *

Birgit Fischer Birgit Fischer (; born 25 February 1962) is a German former kayaker, who has won eight gold medals over six different Olympic Games, a record she shares with Aladár Gerevich and Isabell Werth, spanning seven Olympiads: twice representing East ...

, German canoer * Birgit Friedmann (born 1960), German runner and 1980 world champion *

Birgit Hogefeld Birgit Hogefeld (born 27 July 1956) is a former member of the West German Red Army Faction (RAF). Early life Born in 1956 in Wiesbaden, Hogefeld joined the RAF in 1984, once she turned clandestine, long after its founding members Andreas Baader, ...

, German RAF terrorist member *

Birgit Kähler Birgit Kähler (born 14 August 1970 in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a retired female high jumper from Germany. Her personal best jump was 1.94 metres, achieved in August 1991 in Bonn. She finished fifth at the 1991 World Championships and fif ...

, German high jumper *

Birgit Meyer Birgit Meyer (born 21 March 1960) is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University. Career Meyer was born on 21 March 1960 in Emden, Germany. She studied comparative religion, pedagogy, and cultural anthropology at the University ...

(born 1960), Dutch religious studies scholar *

Birgit Michels Birgit Michels ( Overzier; born 28 September 1984) is a German badminton player. She competed for Germany at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the mixed doubles. In 2008, she competed with Kristof Hopp, and in 2012 she competed with Michae ...

, German badminton player *

Birgit Minichmayr Birgit Minichmayr (born 3 April 1977) is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin In ...

, Austrian actress *

Birgit Nilsson Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide répertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner a ...

, Swedish soprano *

Birgit Õigemeel Birgit Sarrap (née Õigemeel, born 24 September 1988), also known as simply Birgit, is an Estonian singer. Õigemeel rose to prominence in 2007 after winning the Eesti otsib superstaari (season 1), first season of ''Eesti otsib superstaari'', ...

, Estonian singer *

Birgit Prinz Birgit Prinz (born 25 October 1977) is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team, Prinz played for 1. FFC Frankfurt in the Frauen-B ...

, German football (soccer) player *

Birgit Püve Birgit Püve (born November 7, 1978) is an Estonian photographer. She lives and works in Tallinn. Life and work Birgit Püve started out as a writing journalist for the Estonian weekly newspaper ''Eesti Ekspress''. She quickly became a successfu ...

, Estonian photographer *

Birgit Rausing Birgit Rausing (born 26 October 1924) is a Swedish art historian, philanthropist, a former billionaire heiress and the widow of Gad Rausing (1922–2000). Biography She is the daughter of Swedish landscape painter Henry Mayne (1891–1975). In 19 ...

, Swedish art historian *

Birgit Ridderstedt Birgit Ridderstedt (November 26, 1914 – September 16, 1985) was a Swedish-American folk singer who appeared at festivals and on television in the 1950s and early 1960s with material she produced herself. Background Born in Ludvika, Sweden, ...

, Swedish singer *

Birgit Schrowange Birgit Schrowange (born Schrowangen; 7 April 1958 in Nehden, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German television presenter. Schrowange works as television presenter on German broadcasters. She has presented ''Extra – Das RTL-Magazin'' on RTL Telev ...

, German television presenter *

Birgit Schuurman Birgit Schuurman (born 1 July 1977, in Utrecht) is a Dutch singer and actress. Biography Schuurman was born in Utrecht and raised in Bunnik as the daughter of a Dutch father and a Surinamese mother; she's the younger sister of Katja Schuurman. Sc ...

, Dutch rock singer *

Birgit Thumm Birgit Thumm (born July 3, 1980, in Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg) is a volleyball player from Germany. She made her debut for the German Women's National Team in 1999. She played at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship ...

, German volleyball player *

Birgit Vogel-Heuser Birgit Vogel-Heuser (born 1961) is a German computer scientist and professor at The Technical University of Munich (TUM). She has been cited over 5,000 times. Vogel-Heuser's research focuses on systems and software engineering, and modeling of dist ...

(born 1961), German computer scientist *

Birgit Zotz Birgit Zotz (born 7 August 1979) is an Austrian writer, cultural anthropologist and an expert on the subject of hospitality management studies. Life Born in Waidhofen an der Thaya, Lower Austria, Zotz grew up in the Waldviertel and in Vienna. ...

, Austrian writer and anthropologist

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