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short form of the Germanic masculine name "Everhard" (alternative

Eberhard Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild boar. People First name *Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire * Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian *Eberhard I, D ...

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Meertens Institute The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam is a research institute for Dutch language and culture within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' or KNAW). ...

database of given names in the Netherlands. It is also used as surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

* Evert van Aelst (1602–1657), Dutch still life painter *

Evert Andersen Evert Andersen (1 February 1772 – 29 July 1809) was a Norwegian sea captain who fought in the Gunboat War against Great Britain and Sweden 1807–09. Early life Andersen was a farmer's son from Lista who left his father's farm to his young ...

(1772–1809), Norwegian naval officer *

Evert Augustus Duyckinck Evert Augustus Duyckinck (pronounced DIE-KINK) (November 23, 1816 – August 13, 1878) was an American publisher and biographer. He was associated with the literary side of the Young America movement in New York. Biography He was born on Novem ...

(1816–1878), American publisher and biographer * Evert Azimullah (born 1938), Surinamese diplomat, politician, and writer * Evert Båge (1925–2021), Swedish Air Force major general *

Evert Jan Baerends Evert Jan Baerends (born 17 September 1945) is a Dutch theoretical chemist. He is an emeritus professor of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Baerends is known for his development and application of electronic structure calculations, which over time ...

(born 1945), Dutch theoretical chemist * Evert Bancker (mayor) (1665–1734), New Netherland/New York trader and politician * Evert Bancker (speaker) (1721–1803), New York merchant and politician * Evert Bastet (born 1950), Canadian sailor * Evert van Benthem (born 1958), Dutch speed skater *

Evert Willem Beth Evert Willem Beth (7 July 1908 – 12 April 1964) was a Dutch philosopher and logician, whose work principally concerned the foundations of mathematics. He was a member of the Significs Group. Biography Beth was born in Almelo, a small ...

(1908–1964), Dutch philosopher and logician *

Evert Björn Evert Björn (21 January 1888 – 21 December 1974) was a Swedish athlete. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He did not finish his initial semifinal heat of the 1500 metres in ...

(1888–1974), Swedish middle-distance runner *

Evert Bloemsma Evert Bloemsma (; 1958 – 22 April 2005) was a Dutch photographer, graphic designer, type designer, and art school educator.

(1958–2005), Dutch type designer and graphic designer *

Evert Jan Boks Evert Jan Boks (18 April 1838 – 14 June 1914) was a Dutch painter. Evert-Jan Boks was a pupil of Arie Lieman and Willem Riem Vis in Apeldoorn. He continued his studies at the Royal Academy in Antwerp, where he won a first prize in 1863. Later on ...

(1838–1914), Dutch painter * Evert Jan Brill (1812–1871), Dutch publisher *

Evert Brouwers Evert Brouwers (born 17 June 1990) is a Dutch former professional footballer who plays for amateur side SV Zeist. Club career He made his senior debut for Utrecht in the 2010-11 season. After AGOVV dissolved, Brouwers played for Hoofdklasse clu ...

(born 1990), Dutch footballer *

Evert Bulder Evert Jan Bulder (24 December 1894 – 21 April 1973) was an association football player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. There he won the bronze medal with the Netherl ...

(1894–1973), Dutch footballer *

Evert Collier Evert Collier (26 January 1642 – few days before 8 September 1708) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter known for vanitas and ''trompe-l'œil'' paintings. His first name is sometimes spelled "Edward" or "Edwaert" or "Eduwaert" or " ...

(1642–1708), Dutch painter *

Evert Dolman Evert "Eef" Gerardus Dolman (22 February 1946 – 12 May 1993) was a Dutch racing cyclist, who won the gold medal in the 100 km team trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, alongside Gerben Karstens, Bart Zoet, and Jan Pi ...

(1946–1993), Dutch racing cyclist *

Evert Dudok Evert Dudok (born February 23, 1959 in Venlo, Netherlands) has been the President of EADS Astrium Satellites since June 2007. Prior to this date he was president of EADS Astrium Space Transportation since June 2005. Before that he was Head of Eart ...

(born 1959), Dutch engineer and CEO *

Evert Eloranta Frans Evert Eloranta (10 October 1879 – 1936) was a Finnish politician and a Member of the Parliament for the Social Democratic Party in 1908–1918. During the Finnish Civil War, Eloranta served as the Minister of Agriculture of the Finnish ...

(1879–1936), Finnish politician *

Evert Endt Evert Endt is a French designer. Early life Evert Endt was born in Zaandam, the Netherlands, in 1933. He grew up in Switzerland and studied in Zurich at the Kunstgewerbeschule. Career In 1958, Endt started his career in the Compagnie de L'E ...

(born 1933), Dutch-born French designer *

Evert Geradts Evert Geradts (born 9 June 1943, The Hague) is a Dutch cartoonist and former underground comics artist. He later became a prolific Disney comics writer and artist too. He is the winner with Leny Zwalve of the 1977 Stripschapprijs The Stripschap ...

(born 1943), Dutch cartoonist *

Evert Grift Evert Grift (21 May 1922 – 27 March 2009) was a Dutch cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. See also * List of Dutch Olympic cyclists This is a list of all Dutch cyclists who co ...

(1922–2009), Dutch racing cyclist *

Evert Groenewald Rear Admiral Evert Groenewald is a retired South African Navy officer, who served as Chief of Naval Operations before his retirement in 1999. He joined the Navy in 1963 at the South African Naval College and later obtained a BMil (BSc) at the S ...

(fl. 1963–1999), South African Navy officer *

Evert Gunnarsson Sven Evert Gunnarsson (28 December 1929 – 30 November 2022) was a Swedish rower Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attach ...

(born 1929), Swedish rower *

Evert Hingst Evert Constantijn Hingst (22 March 1969 – 31 October 2005) was a Dutch lawyer. He was murdered in Amsterdam, one day before he would talk to various media about the various investigations the Dutch Department of Justice was conducting after him ...

(1969–2005), Dutch lawyer and murder victim * Evert Hoek (born 1933), South African-Canadian civil engineer *

Evert-Jan 't Hoen Evert-Jan Axel Charles 't Hoen (born 8 November 1975 in Alphen aan den Rijn) is a Dutch baseball player. 't Hoen represented the Netherlands at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, in which the Dutch finished sixth. He also participated in ...

(born 1975), Dutch baseball player * Evert Hokkanen (1864–1918), Finnish farmworker and politician * Evert Horn (1585–1615), Swedish soldier * Evert Hoving (born 1953), Dutch middle-distance runner *

Evert Huttunen Evert Johan Valdemar Huttunen (8 May 1884, Toksovo, Saint Petersburg Governorate - 29 March 1924) was a Finland, Finnish journalist and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1916 until his death in 1924, representing the So ...

(1884–1924), Finnish journalist and politician *

Evert Jakobsson Evert Brynolf Jakobsson (16 February 1886 – 16 July 1960) was a Finnish javelin thrower who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Athletics Evert Jakobsson with his brother Jarl emerged as javelin specialists in the summer of 1906. Their s ...

(1886–1960), Finnish javelin thrower *

Evert Johansson Evert Vilhelm Johansson (9 September 1903 – 2 May 1990) was a Finnish canoeist who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Porvoon maalaiskunta, Eastern Uusimaa Eastern Uusimaa or, officially, Itä-Uusimaa ( fi, It ...

(1903–1990), Finnish canoeist * Evert Kamerbeek (1934–2008), Dutch decathlete * Evert Karlsson (1920–1996), Swedish ski jumper * Evert Koops (1885–1938), Dutch sprinter * Evert Kroes (born 1950), Dutch rower *

Evert Kroon Evert Gerrit Kroon (9 September 1946 – 2 April 2018)
was a

(born 1946), Dutch water polo goalkeeper * Evert Johan Kroon (born 1966), Netherlands Antilles swimmer * Evert Kulenius (1879–1958), Finnish schoolteacher and politician *

Evert Larock Everard Larock, known as Evert (21 May 1865 – 13 January 1901) was a Belgian Impressionist painter who belonged to the Secessionist art groups ''Als ik Kan'' and ''De XIII''. Life and work Larock was born in Kapelle-op-den-Bos. After much p ...

(1865–1901), Belgian painter * Évert Lengua (born 1983), Peruvian footballer * Evert van Linge (1895–1964), Dutch footballer *

Evert Lundquist Evert Ernst Erland Olof Lundquist (17 July 1904 – 4 November 1994) was a Swedish painter and graphic artist. He was born in Stockholm, the son of a railway official, Ernst Lundquist and Olga Eugenia Maria Charlotta Lundquist (born Björck). ...

(1904–1994), Swedish painter and graphic artist * Evert Lundqvist (1900–1979), Swedish footballer *

Evert van Milligen Evert van Milligen (born 1948 in Otterlo) is a Dutch politician and former Chartered Accountant. As a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) he was a member of the municipal council o ...

(born 1948), Dutch VVD politician * Evert Musch (1918–2007), Dutch painter * Evert van Muyden (1853–1922), Swiss engraver, illustrator and painter * Evert Nilsson (1894–1973), Swedish pentathlete and decathlete * Evert Nyberg (1925–2000), Swedish long-distance runner * Evert Oudendijck (1650–1695), Dutch painter * Evert Pieters (1856–1932), Dutch painter * Evert Ploeg (born 1963), Australian portrait painter. * Evert Skoglund (born 1953), Italian footballer * Evert V. Snedecker (1838–1899), American racing horse trainer and owner * Evert Sodergren (1920–2013), American studio furniture maker *

Evert Sparks Evert Ellsworth Sparks (September 10, 1879 – May 11, 1972) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921 to 1930 as a member of the United Farmers caucus in government. Political career Spar ...

(1879–1972), Canadian (Alberta) politician *

Evert Taube Axel Evert Taube (; 12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th ce ...

(1890–1976), Swedish author, artist, composer and singer *

Evert Verbist Evert Verbist (born 27 June 1984) is a Belgian road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in term ...

(born 1984), Belgian road cyclist * Evert Verwey (1905–1981), Dutch chemist * Evert Ysbrandszoon Ides (1657–1708), Danish traveller and diplomat

Surname

Alexei Evert Aleksei Ermolaevich Evert (russian: Алексей Ермолаевич Эверт; german: Alexei Ewert; also written ''Everth'' or ''Ewarts''; 4 March 185712 November 1918 or 10 May 1926) was an Imperial Russian general of Orthodox German ext ...

(1857–1926), General in the Russian Empire *

Angelos Evert Angelos Evert ( el, Άγγελος Έβερτ; german: Ewert; 10 April 1894 – 30 December 1970) was a Greek police officer, most notable for serving as head of the Athens branch of the Cities Police during the Axis Occupation of Greece during ...

(1894–1970), Greek police officer * Chris Evert (born 1954), American tennis player **

Evert Cup The Indian Wells Masters, also known as the Indian Wells Open and BNP Paribas Open is an annual tennis tournament usually held in early- and mid-March at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States. The owner is La ...

, women's tennis tournament named after her **

Chris Evert (horse) Chris Evert (February 14, 1971 – January 8, 2001) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse, winning the U.S. Filly Triple Crown in 1974 and earning the Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Filly. Background Chris Ever ...

, racing horse named after her *

James Evert James Andrew "Jimmy" Evert (September 9, 1923 – August 21, 2015) was an American tennis coach and player. He was the father of Chris Evert, who was one of the world's top women tennis players in the 1970s and 1980s. Evert was born in Chicago, ...

(1924–2015), American tennis coach, father of Chris and Jeanne *

Jason Evert Jason Evert is a Catholic author and chastity speaker. He founded Totus Tuus Press and Chastity Project, an organization that promotes chastity primarily to high school and college students. Evert earned a Master of Theology from the Franciscan ...

(born 1975), Catholic author and chastity speaker * Jeanne Evert (1957–2020), American tennis player *

Miltiadis Evert Miltiadis Evert ( el, Μιλτιάδης Έβερτ; german: Ebert; 12 May 1939 – 9 February 2011) was a Greek politician, a member of Parliament, government minister, and ex-chairman of the New Democracy party. Origins Evert was born in Athen ...

(1939–2011), Greek politician

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