given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
which is derived from Germanic roots that meant "spear" and "strength". "
Trudy
Trudy is a diminutive of Gertrude. Notable people with the name include:
People
* Trudy Adams (born 1964), American actress
* Trudy Anderson (born 1959), New Zealand cricketer
* Trudy Bellinger, British music video director
* Trudy Benson ( ...
", originally a diminutive of "Gertrude," has developed into a name in its own right.
In German-speaking countries, Gertraud (pronounced Ger-trowt) is a familiar variation of the name.
"Gartred" is a rare variation (attested in
Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was Geor ...
's novel ''
The King's General
''The King's General'' is a novel, published in 1946, by English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier.
Background
It was the first novel du Maurier wrote while living at Menabilly, the setting for an earlier novel '' Rebecca'', where it is ...
'', set in 17th-century
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
, England).
"Gertruda" is a rare variation used in the Soviet Union as an abbreviation of Geroy truda (the Hero of Labour).Valeri Mokiyenko, "Толковый словарь языка Совдепии" ("
Explanatory Dictionary
An explanatory dictionary or defining dictionary is a dictionary that provides definitions of word meanings at its entries. It may give additional information on pronunciation, grammar, etymology
Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of Eng ...
Gertrude Abercrombie
Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 – July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gille ...
(1909–1977), American painter based in Chicago
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Gertrud Adelborg
Gertrud Virginia Adelborg (10 September 1853 in Karlskrona – 25 January 1942) was a Swedish teacher, feminist and leading member of the women's rights movement.
Biography
Gertrud Adelborg was born at Karlskrona in Blekinge County, Sweden. She ...
(1853–1942), Swedish suffragist
* Gertrud Ahlgren (1782–1874), Swedish folk healer
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Gertrude Alderfer
Gertrude Alderfer '' ert' (September 21, 1931 – February 27, 2018) was a first basewoman and catcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.Gertrude Ansell (1861–1932), British suffragette, animal rights activist and businesswoman
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Gertrude Appleyard
Gertrude Appleyard (22 April 1865 – 9 June 1917) was a British archer. She competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingd ...
(1865–1917), British archer
* Gertrude Aretz (1889–1838), German historian and publisher
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Lillian Gertrud Asplund
Lillian Gertrud Asplund (October 21, 1906 – May 6, 2006) was a Swedish-American secretarial worker who was one of the last three living survivors of the sinking of on April 15, 1912, and the last survivor who could recall the disaster.AP "Tita ...
(1906–2006), American last survivor of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''––
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Gertrude Astor
Gertrude Astor (born Gertrude Irene Eyster; November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone in a woman's band.
Early years
Gertrude Irene Eyster was born in Lake ...
(1887–1977), American motion-picture character actress
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Gertrude Atherton
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author. Paterson, Isabel, "Gertrude Atherton: A Personality"
The Bookman'', New York, February 1924, (pgs. 632-636) Many of her novels are set in her home sta ...
(1857–1948), American writer
* Gertrud Bacher (born 1971), retired Italian heptathlete
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Gertrude Bacon
Gertrude Bacon (19 April 1874 – 22 December 1949) was an aeronautical pioneer. She achieved a considerable number of "firsts" for women in aeronautics, as well as making contributions in the areas of astronomy and botany. Bacon populari ...
(1874–1948), aeronautical pioneer and writer with contributions in astronomy and botany
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Gertrud Baer
Gertrud Baer (1890–1981) was a German Jewish women's rights and peace activist. One of the founding members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, she served as the executive secretary of the German branch of WILPF beginning ...
(1890–1981), one of the founders of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
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Gertrude Bambrick
Gertrude Bambrick (August 24, 1897 – January 10, 1974) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 60 films between 1912 and 1916.
Biography
Bambrick was married twice. Her first marriage to early film director Marshall Ne ...
(1897–1974), American silent-film actress
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Gertrude Baniszewski
Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. This abuse in ...
(1929–1990), American murderer
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Gertrud Bäumer
Gertrud Bäumer (12 September 1873, Hagen-Hohenlimburg, Westphalia – 25 March 1954, Bethel) was a German politician who actively participated in the German civil rights feminist movement. She was also a writer, and contributed to Friedric ...
(1873–1954), German politician and feminist
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Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly ...
, (1868–1926), archaeologist and spy
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Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction.''Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965'' by Eric Lei ...
(1883–1948), American writer of fantasy and science fiction
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Gertrude Berg
Gertrude Berg (Born Tillie Edelstein; October 3, 1899 – September 14, 1966) was an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running hi ...
(1894–1966), American actress and screenwriter
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Gertrude Bernard
Gertrude Bernard (June 18, 1906 – June 17, 1986), also known as Anahareo, was a writer, animal rights activist and conservationist of Algonquin and Mohawk ancestry.
Biography
Gertrude Bernard was born in Mattawa, Ontario, on June 18, 19 ...
(1906–1986), Mohawk woman and companion of Grey Owl
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Gertrud Bing Gertrud Bing (7 June 1892 – 3 July 1964) was a German art historian and director of the Warburg Institute.
Biography
Born in Hamburg, she was educated at the Lyceum in Hamburg from 1909 to 1913, and received her abitur from the Heinrich-Hertz R ...
(1892–1964), German scholar and director of the Warburg Institute
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Gertrude Blanch
Gertrude Blanch (2 February 1897, in Kolno, Russian Empire (now Poland) – 1 January 1996) was an American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. She was a leader of the Mathematical Tables Project in New Yo ...
(1897–1996), American mathematician
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Gertrude Bloede
Gertrude Bloede (10 August 1845 – 14 August 1905) was a United States poet. She used the pen name “Stuart Sterne” for her publications.
Biography
Bloede was born in Dresden, Germany. Her father and mother were refugees who fled Germany aft ...
(1845–1905), American poet
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Gertrude Blom
Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom (born Gertrude Elisabeth Lörtscher; July 7, 1901 – December 23, 1993) was a Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer who spent five decades chronicling the Mayan cultures of Chi ...
(1901–1993), Swiss journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer
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Gertrude Elizabeth Blood
Gertrude Elizabeth, Lady Colin Campbell (''née'' Blood; 3 May 1857 – 1 November 1911) was an Irish-born journalist, author, playwright, and editor. She was married to Lord Colin Campbell, a brother-in-law of Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's ...
(1857–1911), Irish-born journalist, author, playwright, and editor
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Gertrude Bonnin
Zitkala-Ša (Lakota: Zitkála-Šá, meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), also known by her missionary and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and polit ...
(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 English author Lewis Carroll
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Gertrude Claire
Gertrude Claire (July 16, 1852 – April 28, 1928) was an actress of the American stage and Hollywood silent motion pictures.
Biography
Claire was born in Chicago, Illinois, and began appearing onstage at the age of 16. She played minor roles ...
(1852–1928), American stage and silent-film actress
* Gertrude Colburn (1886–1968), American dancer and sculptor
* Gertrude Cosgrove (1882–1962), wife of Sir Robert Cosgrove, twice elected as Premier of Tasmania
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Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter
Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter, (''née'' Blount ; c.1499/1502 – 25 September 1558) was an English Marchioness, married to Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter and a member of the court of Henry VIII of England. She was a godmothe ...
(before 1504–1558), a lady at the court of Henry VIII of England
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Gertrude Mary Cox
Gertrude Mary Cox (January 13, 1900 – October 17, 1978) was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statist ...
(1900–1978), American statistician
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Gertrude Crain Gertrude Ramsay Crain (9 March 1911 – July 20, 1996) was an American publishing executive who served as chair of Crain Communications, Inc., a company her husband, G.D. Crain, Jr., founded in 1916. She ran the company after her husband's death i ...
(1911–1996), American publishing executive
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Gertrude Crampton
Gertrude Crampton (June 26, 1909 – June 25, 1996) was an author of children's books, including '' Tootle'' (1945) and '' Scuffy the Tugboat'' (1946).
Biography
Gertrude Crampton was born on June 26, 1909, in Brooklyn, New York, to Faust ...
(1909–1996), American children's writer and teacher
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Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman
Gertrude Mary Denman, Lady Denman, GBE (née Pearson; 7 November 18842 June 1954) was a British woman active in women's rights issues including the promotion of Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She was also the wife of Lord Denman, the ...
(1884–1954), British women's rights activist
* Gertrud Hedwig Anna Dohm (1855–1942), German actress
* Gertrud Dorka (1893–1976), German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director
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Gertrude Dunn
Gertrude Dunn (September 30, 1933September 29, 2004) was an American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the league made famous by the 1992 film ''A League Of Their Own''.Gertrude Ederle
Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1906 – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. ...
(1905–2003), American competitive swimmer
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Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovat ...
(1918–1999), American biochemist and pharmacologist
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Gertrude Elles
Gertrude Lilian Elles MBE (8 October 1872 – 18 November 1960) was a British geologist, known for her work on graptolites.
Personal life
Gertrude Elles was born on October 8, 1872. She was the youngest of six children. Every year the E ...
(1872–1960), British geologist known for her work on graptolites
* Gertrude Falk (1925–2008), American physiologist
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Gertrude Franklin
Gertrude Franklin (September 4, 1858 – April 1, 1913) was an American singer and music educator. Born Virginia H. Beatty, she was better known to the musical world as Gertrude Franklin, a name she took when she first became a professional singe ...
(1858–1913), American singer and music educator
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Gertrud Fridh
Gertrud Fridh (26 November 1921 – 11 October 1984) was a Swedish stage and film actress.
Biography
Born in Gothenburg, Fridh later studied acting at Gothenburg City Theatre's acting school from 1941 to 1944. She worked in the 1940s and 195 ...
(1921–1984), Swedish stage and film actress
* Gertrude Gabl (1948–1976), Austrian alpine skier
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Gertrude the Great
Gertrude the Great, OSB (or Saint Gertrude of Helfta; it, Santa Gertrude, german: Gertrud die Große von Helfta, la, Sancta Gertrudis; January 6, 1256 – November 17, 1302) was a German Benedictine nun and mystic. She is recognized as a saint ...
(1256 – c. 1302), also known as Saint Gertrude of Helfta, German Benedictine nun, mystic, and theologian
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Gertrud Grunow Gertrud Grunow (8 July 1870 – 11 June 1944) was a German musician and educationalist who formulated theories on the relationships between sound, colour and movement and was a specialist in vocal pedagogy. She taught courses in the "theory of harmo ...
(1870–1944), first woman teacher at the Bauhaus art school
* Gertrud Hanna (1876–1944), German activist and politician
* Gertrude Healy (1894–1984), Australian violinist, educator
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Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb (August 8, 1922 – December 30, 2019), also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. She wrote extensively on intellectual history, w ...
(1922–2019), American historian
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Gertrud von Hindenburg
Gertrud Wilhelmine von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (née von Sperling; 4 December 1860 – 14 May 1921) was a German noblewoman and philanthropist. She was the wife of Paul von Hindenburg, the Chief of the German Army Command in the second ha ...
(1860–1921), German noblewoman and wife of Paul von Hindenburg
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Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll ( ; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote ...
(1843–1932), British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer
* Gertraud Junge (1920–2002), Adolf Hitler's last private secretary
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Gertrude Kleinová
Gertrude "Traute or Trude" Kleinová (born in Brno, Czechoslovakia; August 13, 1918 – April 9, 1976) was a three-time world champion table tennis player, winning the women's team world championship twice, and the world mixed doubles once.
She a ...
(1918–1976), Czech three-time table tennis world champion
* Gertrud Koch (1924–2016), German resistance fighter
* Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), German lyric poet and writer
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Gertrud Kraus
Gertrud Kraus ( he, גרטרוד קראוס; 5 May 1901 – 13 November 1977) was an Israeli pioneer of modern dance in Israel.
Biography
Gertrud Kraus was born in 1901 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Her father, Leopold Kraus, and her mother, Olga ...
(1901–1977), Israeli pioneer of modern dance
* Gertrude Kuh (1893–1977), American landscape architect
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Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York.
Early life
Lawrence was born Gertr ...
(1898–1952), Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen. English actress, singer, dancer and performer
* Gertrude Rachel Levy (1884–1966), author and cultural historian
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Gertrud Luckner
Gertrud Luckner (; born 26 September 1900 in Liverpool – died 31 August 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism.
A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organi ...
(1900–1995), German Christian resister against Nazism
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Gertrud Månsson
Gertrud Carolina Månsson (18 December 1866 – 30 December 1935), was a Swedish municipal politician (Social democrat). She was the first female member in the Stockholm City Council, and also the first elected female politician of her country a ...
(1866–1935), Swedish politician, the first woman in the Stockholm city council
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Gertrud Elisabeth Mara
Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (née Schmeling) (23 February 1749 – 20 January 1833) was a German operatic soprano.
Life
She was born in Kassel, the daughter of a poor musician, Johann Schmeling. From him she learnt to play the violin, and while st ...
(1749–1833), German operatic soprano
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Frances Gertrude McGill
Frances Gertrude McGill (November 18, 1882 – January 21, 1959) was a Canadian forensic pathologist, criminologist, bacteriologist, allergologist and allergist. Nicknamed "the Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan" for her deductive skills and pu ...
(1882–1959), pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist and criminologist
* Sarah Gertrude Millin (1889–1968), South African author
* Gertrude Mongella (born 1945), Tanzanian politician
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Gertrude Morgan
Sister Gertrude Morgan (April 7, 1900 – July 8, 1980) was a self-taught African-American artist, musician, poet and preacher. Born in LaFayette, Alabama, she relocated to New Orleans in 1939, where she lived and worked until her death in 1980. ...
(1900–1980), African-American artist, musician, poet and preacher
* Gertrude Comfort Morrow (ca. 1888–1983), American architect
* Gertrude Neumark (1927–2010), American physicist
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Gertrude of Nivelles
Gertrude of Nivelles, OSB (also spelled ''Geretrude'', ''Geretrudis'', ''Gertrud''; c. 628 – 17 March 659) was a seventh-century abbess who, with her mother Itta, founded the Abbey of Nivelles, now in Belgium.
Life Family and childhood
The ea ...
(c. 628–659), seventh-century abbess, co-founder of the Abbey of Nivelles located in present-day Belgium
O–Z
* Gertrud Otto (1895–1970), German art historian
* Gertrude Clare Owens (1887–1963), Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
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Gertrud Pätsch
Gertrud Pätsch (born 22 January 1910 in Hannover as ''Gertrud Kettler''; died 14 December 1994 in Jena) was a German ethnologist and philologist, who rendered service in the area of Kartvelian studies.
In 1937 she graduated in Munster with a d ...
(1910–1994), German ethnologist and philologist
* Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren (1897–1991), Swedish mezzo-soprano
* Gertrude Penhall (1846–1929), American civic leader and clubwoman
*Gertrude Pridgett Rainey (1882–1939), better known as
Ma Rainey
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey ( Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was an American blues singer and influential early blues recording artist. Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of s ...
, blues singer
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Gertrud von Puttkamer
Baroness Gertrud von Puttkamer (''Gertrud Freifrau von Puttkamer'' in German; born Gertrud Günther, 4 April 1881 – 27 or 30 September 1944), also known by her pen name Marie-Madeleine, was a German writer of lesbian-themed erotic litera ...
(1881–1944), German erotic writer
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Gertrud Rask
Gertrud Rask (167321 December 1735) was the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede and was the mother of the missionary and translator Paul Egede.
Life in Norway
Gertrud Rask (the parish register records her as Gj ...
(1673–1735), first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland, Hans Egede
* Gertrud Rittmann (1908–2005), German composer and music arranger in the United States
* Gertrude Sawyer (1895–1996), American architect
* Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911–1998), German-born Jewish-American nuclear physicist
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Gertrud Schoenberg
Gertrud Bertha Schoenberg (, Kolisch; pen name, Max Blonda; 11 July 1898 – 14 February 1967) was an Austrian opera librettist. She was the second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, whom she married in 1924, and the sister of his pupil, ...
(1898–1967), second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg
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Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, ''née'' Treusch, later known as Maria Stuckebrock (9 February 1902 – 24 March 1999), was a Nazi Party member and leader of the National Socialist Women's League (''NS-Frauenschaft'') in Nazi Germany.
Nazi activities
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(1902–1999), fervent Nazi Party (NSDAP) member in Nazi Germany
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Gertrud Schüpbach
Trudi Schüpbach (born Zurich, Switzerland, February 3, 1950; full name Gertrud M. Schüpbach; published name Trudi Schüpbach) is a Swiss-American molecular biologist. She is an Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, wh ...
(born 1950), Swiss-American molecular biologist
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Gertrud Seidmann
Gertrud Seidmann, (16 September 1919 – 15 February 2013) was an Austrian-British linguist and jewellery historian, specialising in engraved gems.
Her first career was as a linguist, teaching German and applied linguistics at Battersea County ...
(1919–2013), Austrian-British linguist and jewelry historian
* Gertrud Skomagers (died 1556), Danish alleged witch
* Gertrúd Stefanek (born 1959), Hungarian Olympic fencer
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris ...
(1874–1946), American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
* Gertrude Story (1929–2014), Canadian writer and radio broadcaster
* Gertrude Strohm (1843–1927), American author, compiler, game designer
* Gertrud Szabolcsi (1923–1993), Hungarian biochemist
* Gertrude Townend, British nurse and suffragette
* Gertrude Unruh (1925–2021), German politician
*Gertrude Vachon (1962–2010), better known as
Luna Vachon
Gertrude Elizabeth Vachon ( ; January 12, 1962 – August 27, 2010) was an American-Canadian professional wrestler, better known as Luna Vachon.Lisa S. Davis,Ex-wrestler Luna Vachon, 48, found dead", ''Tampa Bay Online'' (August 31, 2010). Over ...
, American professional wrestler
* Gertrude Vaile (1878–1954), American social worker
* Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979), American children's author
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, ...
(1875–1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector
* Gertrude Walton Donahey (1908–2004), American politician
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Gertrude Weil
Gertrude Weil (11 December 1879 – 3 May 1971) was an American social activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women's suffrage, labor reform and civil rights.
Biography
Early life
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(1879–1971), American activist in women's suffrage, labor reform, and civil rights
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Gertrud Wolle
Gertrud Wolle (11 March 1891 – 6 July 1952) was a German film actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Die Insel der Glücklichen'' (1919)
* ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919)
* ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921)
* '' A Glass of Water'' (1923)
* ''Burglars'' (1 ...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
's play ''
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
'', is
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
's mother and
Queen of Denmark
The monarchy of Denmark is a constitutional institution and a historic office of the Kingdom of Denmark. The Kingdom includes Denmark proper and the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The Kingdom of Denmark was a ...