Bertha is a female

Germanic name Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements ( stems), by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred's name was derived from ', meaning "noble", and ', meaning "counsel". The i ...

, from Old High German ''berhta'' meaning "bright one". It was usually a short form of

Anglo Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to Ge ...

names ''Beorhtgifu'' meaning "bright gift" or ''Beorhtwynn'' meaning "bright joy". The name occurs as a

theonym A theonym (from Greek (), 'god', attached to (), ) is a proper name of a deity. Theonymy, the study of divine proper names, is a branch of onomastics, the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. Theonymy helps develop an und ...

, surviving as

Berchta or (' Bertha'; ), also commonly known as () and other variations, was once known as a goddess in Alpine paganism in the Upper German and also Austrian and Slovenian regions of the Alps. Her name may mean 'the bright one' or 'the bearer' (, fr ...

, a figure in

Alpine folklore The central and eastern Alps of Europe are rich in folklore traditions dating back to pre-Christian times, with surviving elements originating from Germanic, Gaulish (Gallo-Roman), Slavic ( Carantanian) and Raetian culture. Survival through ...

connected to the Wild Hunt, probably an epithet of ''* Frijjō'' in origin. ''Bertha'' appears as a

Frankish Frankish may refer to: * Franks, a Germanic tribe and their culture ** Frankish language or its modern descendants, Franconian languages, a group of Low Germanic languages also commonly referred to as "Frankish" varieties * Francia, a post-Roman ...

given name from as early as the 6th century. The monothematic ''Bertha'' as a given name may, however, not originate with the theonym but rather as a short form of dithematic given names including the "bright" element. This is notably the case with the mother of

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( ; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was List of Frankish kings, King of the Franks from 768, List of kings of the Lombards, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian ...

, Bertrada (properly ''berht-rada'' "bright counsel") called "Bertha Broadfoot." Carolingian uses of the name ''Bertha'', as in the case of

Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne Bertha (c. 780 – after 11 March 824) was the seventh child and third daughter of Charlemagne, King of the Franks, by his second wife, Hildegard. Life Bertha was raised with her brothers and sisters in the royal household of Charlemagne, wh ...

and

Bertha, daughter of Lothair II Bertha (born between 863 and 868 – 8 March 925 in Lucca) was countess of Arles by marriage to Theobald of Arles, and margravine of Tuscany by marriage to Adalbert II of Tuscany. She served as regent of Lucca and Tuscany from 915 until 916 du ...

, are in this tradition. In modern times, the name is associated with an unusually large example of a class of objects. Many large machines are nicknamed Bertha for the World War I howitzer known as Big Bertha. Women named Bertha include: * Saint

Bertha of Kent Bertha or Aldeberge (c. 565– d. in or after 601) was a Frankish princess who became queen of Kent. She enabled the 597 Gregorian mission, led by Augustine, which resulted in the conversion to Christianity of Anglo-Saxon England. Life Ber ...

(539 – c. 612), Queen of Kent * Saint

Bertha of Val d'Or Bertha of Val d'Or (birth unknown, death c. 690), was an abbess, virgin, and martyr. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint. Her husband was Gombert, Lord of Champenois, who was a nobleman and member of the royal family of Fra ...

(d. c. 690), abbess * Saint

Bertha of Artois Bertha of Artois or Bertha of Blangy (mid 7th century – 4 July 725) was a Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Abbess of noble blood. Life Bertha was the daughter of Count Rigobert, the Mayor of the Palace under King Clovis II prior to Ebroin. Her mother ...

(mid-7th century – 4 July 725), abbess, daughter of Count Rigobert and Ursana *

Bertrada of Laon Bertrada of Laon (born between 710 and 727 – 12 July 783), also known as Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot (, i.e. the queen with the goose-foot), was a Frankish queen. She was the wife of Pepin the Short and the mother of Charlemagne, ...

(also called Bertha with the big feet) (720–783), Frankish queen * Saint

Bertha of Bingen Saint Bertha of Bingen (German: ''Heilige Berta'', died ) was the mother of Bertha_of_Bingen#Rupert of Bingen, Rupert of Bingen. Her biography was written, and subsequently her cult popularized, by Hildegard of Bingen, who lived in the same regi ...

(), mother of Saint Rupert of Bingen *

(c. 780 – after 11 March 824) *

(863–925) * Blessed

Bertha de Bardi Blessed Bertha de Bardi (died 24 March 1163) was born in Florence. She was the daughter of Lothario di Ugo, Count of Vernio; while she is commonly known as de Bardi, some sources speculate that she is more likely to have belonged to the Albert ...

, Florence; (died 24 March 1163) *

Bertha, Duchess of Brittany Bertha of Cornouaille ( 1125–56), also known as Bertha of Brittany (), was the Duchess of Brittany between 1148 until her death and Dowager Countess of Richmond. Bertha was the elder daughter of Conan III of Brittany by Maude, the illegitimate ...

(1156) * Bertha, Duchess of Lorraine (b.c. 1123/30 – d. 1194/5) *

Bertha of Aragon Bertha ( 1075 – bef. 1111) was a Queen consort of Aragon and Navarre. Nothing is known about her childhood or the names of her parents. She was married to Peter I of Aragon in 1097, shortly after the death of Peter's first wife, Agnes of Aquit ...

(c. 1075 – bef. 1111), Queen consort of Aragon and Navarre *

Bertha of Burgundy Bertha of Burgundy (964 – 16 January 1010) was Queen consort of the Franks as the second wife of King Robert II. Bertha was the daughter of King Conrad of Burgundy Stefan Weinfurter, ''The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transitio ...

(952, 964 or 967 – 1010, 16 January 1016, or 1035), queen of France *

Bertha of Hereford Bertha of Hereford, also known as Bertha de Pitres (born c. 1130), was the daughter of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, and a wealthy heiress, Sibyl de Neufmarché. She was the wife of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber to whom ...

(born ), heiress *

Bertha of Holland Bertha of Holland ( 1055 – 15 October 1094), also known as Berthe or Bertha of Frisia and erroneously as Berta or Bertrada, was Queen of France from 1072 until 1092, as the first wife of King Philip I of France. Bertha's marriage to the king ...

(1093), queen of France *

Bertha of Milan Bertha of Milan or Bertha of Luni (c. 997-c. 1040), was a countess margravine of Turin by marriage to Ulric Manfred II of Turin, and regent in Turin and Susa for her daughter Adelaide of Susa in 1033. She is sometimes identified with the Bertha w ...

(c. 997-c. 1040), countess margravine of Turin *

Bertha of Putelendorf Bertha von Putelendorf (died after 1182) may have been the daughter of Count Palatine Friedrich IV von Putelendorf in Saxony and his wife Agnes of Limburg, daughter of Henry, Duke of Lower Lorraine Henry I ( – 1119) was the count of Limburg ...

(died 1190), Saxon noble *

Bertha of Rheinfelden Bertha of Rheinfelden (also Bertha of Bregenz) (born c. 1065; d. after 1128), countess of Kellmünz, was the daughter of Rudolf of Rheinfelden and wife of Ulrich X of Bregenz. Life Bertha was the daughter of Rudolf of Rheinfelden and Adelaide ...

(born c. 1065; d. after 1128), countess of

Kellmünz Kellmünz ''(official: Kellmünz a.d.Iller)'' is a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria in Germany. Geographic location Kellmünz is located in Upper Swabia at the river Iller, approximately 30 km south of Ulm and 15 k ...

Bertha of Savoy Bertha of Savoy (21 September 1051 – 27 December 1087), also called Bertha of Turin, was Queen of Germany from 1066 and Holy Roman Empress from 1084 until 1087 as the first wife of Emperor Henry IV. Life Bertha of Savoy was a daughter ...

(1051–1087), Queen of Germany *

Bertha of Sulzbach Bertha of Sulzbach (1110s – 1160), also known as Irene, was a Byzantine empress by marriage to Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. Life She was born in Sulzbach, a daughter of Berengar II, Count of Sulzbach (c. 1080 – 3 December 1125) and ...

(1110–1159), Byzantine empress *

Bertha of Swabia Bertha of Swabia (; ; AD – after 2 January 966), a member of the Alemannic Hunfriding dynasty, was queen of Burgundy from 922 until 937 and queen of Italy from 922 until 926, by her marriage with King Rudolph II. She was again queen of Ital ...

(966), queen of Burgundy * Bertha of Turin (c.1020/4 – after 1064/5), member of the Arduinici dynasty *

(died c. 690), a Christian saint * Bertha of Vohburg (13th-century), Austrian noblewoman and ruling vassal * Bertha Allen (1934–2010), Vuntut Gwitchin women's and aboriginal rights advocate *

Bertha Bacon Bertha Bacon (, 1866–19 April 1922) was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Tax Resistance League. Life Bacon was born in 1866 in Abbess Roding, Essex. She was one of eight children. Bacon was a suffragette and member of the Wi ...

(1866-1922), British suffragette *

Bertha Hirsch Baruch Bertha Hirsch Baruch was a German-born American writer, social worker, and suffragist. Baruch was born in the Province of Posen, Germany. She immigrated to New London, Connecticut, United States, with her father in 1876. Baruch wrote poetry as a ...

, German-American writer, social worker, and suffragist *

Bertha Becker Bertha Koiffmann Becker (November 7, 1930 – July 13, 2013) was a Brazilian geographer, author and professor emeritus at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She published more than 180 books, articles, and other works during her career. Mu ...

(1930–2013), Brazilian geographer, author and professor *

Bertha Benz Bertha Benz (; ; 3 May 1849 – 5 May 1944) was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile inventor Carl Benz. On 5 August 1888, she was the first person to drive an Internal combustion engine, int ...

(1849–1944), wife of automobile inventor Karl Benz and the first person in history to drive an automobile over long distance * Bertha Berry (1876–1954), American nurse * Bertha Boronda (1877–1950), American criminal * Bertha Southey Brammall (1878–1957), Australian writer *

Bertha Brainard Bertha Brainard (June 16, 1890 – June 11, 1946), known to her friends as Betty, was a pioneering NBC executive responsible for setting trends in network broadcasting. Life and career She was born and raised in South Orange, New Jersey, the daug ...

(1890–1946), pioneering television executive *

Bertha Brouwer Bertha "Puck" Brouwer (later van Duyne; 29 October 1930 – 6 October 2006) was a Dutch sprinter. Brouwer accomplished her first international notable result in 1950, when she won the silver medal at the European Championships, being part of ...

(1930–2006), Dutch sprinter * Bertha Calloway (1925–2017), American activist and historian * Bertha Felix Campigli (1882–1949), American/

Coast Miwok The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of California that were the second-largest tribe of the Miwok people. Coast Miwok inhabited the general area of present-day Marin County and southern Sonoma County in Northern California, from the Golde ...

photographer * Bertha Coolidge (1880–1953), American painter *

Bertha Coombs Bertha Coombs (born December 28, 1961) is a reporter for CNBC, based at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. She covers business and financial news stories. Coombs attended The Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts, Milton Academy in Milton, ...

(born 1961), reporter *

Bertha Crouch Chase Bertha Crouch Chase Wrightsman (August 16, 1874 – July 8, 1957) was an American tennis player and golfer, active in California in the 1890s. Early life Crouch was raised in Oakland, California, the daughter of farmer and rancher Elisha Crouc ...

(1874–1957), American athlete * Bertha Crowther (1921–2007), British athlete * Bertha Damon (1881–1975), American humorist, author, lecturer, and editor *

Bertha Díaz Julia Berta Díaz Hernández (October 1, 1936 – November 20, 2019), known as Berta Díaz, was a Sprint (running), sprinter from Cuba, who also competed in the long jump and the hurdling events during her career. She represented her native ...

(1936–2019), Cuban track and field athlete *

Bertha Dorph Bertha Olga Vilhelmine Herlich Dorph née Green (4 June 1875 – 25 February 1960) was a Danish painter. Biography Born in Copenhagen, Dorph was privately educated under Harald Slott-Møller and Peter Ilsted in Copenhagen (1893–97) after which ...

(1875–1960), Danish painter *

Bertha Edwards Bertha Mae Winborne Edwards (1920–2009), was the librarian of Portsmouth (Virginia) Colored Community Library for its entire existence, 1945–1963, moving to the integrated Portsmouth Public Library in 1963 as part of an integrated staff. She ...

(1920-2009), American librarian *

Bertha Bowness Fischer Bertha Bowness Fischer born Bertha Bowness Foulkes (21 February 1875 – 6 December 1920) was a British political agent. Life Fischer was born in Karaikal in 1875. Her family came originally from Germany but the she was a fourth generation perso ...

(1875–1920), British political agent * Bertha Fowler (1866–1952), American educator, preacher, deaconess *

Bertha Gardiner Bertha Meriton Gardiner (1845–1925) was an English historian who wrote popular short books about The French Revolution and the English Civil War. Bertha Meriton Cordery was born in Hampstead, London on 19 April 1845, the youngest daughter of John ...

(1845–1925), English historian *

Bertha Gifford Bertha Alice Williams Graham Gifford (October 30, 1871 – August 20, 1951) was a farmwife in rural Catawissa, Missouri during the early 1900s who was accused of murdering three members of the local community and suspected in 15 additional deaths ...

(1871–1951), American serial killer *

Bertha Lund Glaeser Bertha Lund Glaeser (, Lund; September 28, 1862 – May 5, 1939) was an American physician. She served as Professor of Pediatrics at the Woman's Medical College of Cincinnati. Early life and education Bertha Lund was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Se ...

(1862–1939), American physician *

Bertha Gxowa Bertha Gxowa, OLS, (née Mashaba; 26 November 1934 - 19 November 2010) was an anti-apartheid and women's rights activist and trade unionist in South Africa. Biography Gxowa was born in Germiston. She first attended the Thokoza Primary School ...

(1934–2010), South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and women's rights activist * Bertha Harris (1937–2005), American novelist and activist *

Bertha George Harris Bertha George Harris (June 29, 1913 – October 14, 2014) was a Catawba cultural practitioners and master potter. Harris was the oldest living member of the Catawba tribe at the time of her death in October 2014. The Catawba number approximat ...

(1913–2014), American Catawba tribal elder and master potter *

Bertha Hart Bertha Irene Hart was an American mathematician. She had a Master of Arts degree from Cornell University, and was at one point an associate professor of mathematics for Western Maryland College. Affiliations In 1946 she was elected to “ordinary ...

, American mathematician * Bertha "Chippie" Hill (1905–1950), American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer * Bertha von Hillern (1853–1939), American athlete and painter *

Bertha Heyman Bertha Heyman (born ) was a 19th-century American criminal, also known as "Big Bertha" or the "Confidence Queen." She was described by famed New York City detective Thomas F. Byrnes as "one of the smartest confidence women in America",.. and wa ...

(born c. 1851), American criminal *

Bertha Hope Bertha Hope-Booker ( Rosemond; born November 8, 1936, Los Angeles, California) is an American jazz pianist and jazz educator. She is the widow of fellow pianist Elmo Hope, with whom she collaborated. She has toured Europe and Japan and played wi ...

(born 1936), American pianist and educator * Bertha Hosang Mah (1896–1959), Canadian student * Bertha Idaho (born c. 1895), American blues singer *

Bertha Jaques Bertha Evelyn Jaques (October 24, 1863 – March 30, 1941) was an American etcher and cyanotype photographer. Jaques helped found the Chicago Society of Etchers, an organization that would become internationally significant for promoting etchin ...

(1863–1941), American etcher and photographer *

Bertha Kalich Bertha Kalich (also spelled Kalish, born Beylke Kalakh; 17 May 1874 – 18 April 1939) was a Jewish-American actress. Though she was well-established as an entertainer in Eastern Europe, she is best remembered as one of the several "larger-th ...

(1874–1939), Jewish actress *

Bertha Kawakami Bertha Bicenta Leinaala Ching Kawakami (July 28, 1931 – November 30, 2017) was an American politician and educator. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Kawakami received her bachelor's degree in education from University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1952 an ...

(1931–2017), American politician and educator * Bertha Koessler-Ilg (1881–1965), German-Argentine nurse and folklorist *

Bertha Kreidmann Bertha Rabbinowicz-Kreidmann (; died May 16, 1871) was a Hebrew poet and letter writer. Her father, Moshe Aharon Kreidmann, was an educated man from Iași who encouraged his daughter's literary pursuits. She moved to Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ...

(died May 16, 1871), Hebrew poet and letter writer *

Bertha Krupp Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (born Bertha Krupp; 29 March 1886 – 21 September 1957) was a member of the Krupp family, Germany's leading industrial dynasty of the 19th and 20th centuries. As the elder child and heir of Friedrich Alfred ...

(1886–1957), sole proprietor of the Krupp industrial empire from 1902 to 1943 *

Bertha Knight Landes Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 – November 29, 1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928. After years of civic activism, primarily with women's organization ...

(1868–1943), first female mayor of a major American city (Seattle, Washington) *

Bertha Lewis Bertha Amy Lewis (12 May 1887 – 8 May 1931) was an English opera singer and actress primarily known for her work as principal contralto in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Life and career Early life ...

(1887–1931), English opera singer and actress *

Bertha Lutz Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz (São Paulo, August 2, 1894 – Rio de Janeiro, September 16, 1976) was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Americas, Pan American feminist movement and human rights m ...

(1894–1976), Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat * Bertha Mahony (1882–1969), publisher of children's literature *

Bertha Mann Bertha Mann (October 21, 1893 – December 20, 1967) was an American stage and film actress. Early life Mann was born in Atlanta, Georgia."Raymond Griffith to Wed Actress" ''New York Times'' (January 4, 1928): 31. She trained as a dancer in ch ...

(1893–1967), American actress * Bertha Mason (1855–1939), English suffragist and temperance campaigner *

Bertha Müller Bertha Mathilde Müller (28 October 1848, Vienna - 26 January 1937, Vienna) was an Austrian portrait painter.

(1848–1937), Austrian painter * Bertha Moraes Nérici (1921–2005), Brazilian World War II

nurse Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...

Bertha Nordenson Bertha Harriet Nordenson (1857–1928) was a devoted Swedish women's rights activist and suffragist. From the late 1880s, she supported women's emancipation, becoming a member and later a board member of the Married Woman's Property Rights Associa ...

(1857–1928), Swedish activist and suffragist *

Bertha Oliva Bertha Oliva Nativí (born c. 1956) is a Honduran human rights campaigner. She is the founder and coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH, by its Spanish initials), a non-governmental organization prom ...

(born c. 1956), Honduran human rights campaigner * Bertha Parker Pallan (1907–1978), American archaeologist *

Bertha Palmer Bertha Matilde Palmer (; May 22, 1849 – May 5, 1918) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the wife of millionaire Potter Palmer and early member of the Chicago Woman's Club, as well as president of the Board of ...

(1849–1918), American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist *

Bertha Pappenheim Bertha Pappenheim (27 February 1859 – 28 May 1936) was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association (). Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best-documented pat ...

(1859–1936), Austrian-Jewish feminist and social pioneer *

Bertha Lee Pate Bertha Lee Pate, known more commonly as Bertha Lee (June 17, 1902 – May 10, 1975) was an American classic female blues singer, active in the 1920s and 1930s. She recorded with, and was the common-law wife of Charley Patton. Biography When ...

(1903–1975), American blues vocalist *

Bertha Quinn Bertha Quinn (1873–1951) was a British suffragette and socialist, from Leeds, who was arrested five times and once went to prison, becoming one of the first Catholic suffragette prisoners to be force-fed after going on hunger strike. Quinn bec ...

(1873–1951), British suffragette and socialist, recipient of Papal Medal * Bertha Rawlinson (1910–1994), New Zealand singer, actress, producer, composer and teacher * Bertha Reynolds (1885–1978), American social worker * Bertha E. Reynolds (1868–1961), American physician *

Bertha Ronge Bertha Ronge (born Meyer; 25 April 1818 – 18 April 1863) was a German education activist. She was involved in the causes of childhood education, women's education and religious freedom. She established the kindergarten movement in England, where ...

(1818–1863), Anglo-German kindergarten activist *

Bertha Runkle Bertha Runkle (after marriage, Bash; 1879–1958) was an American novelist and playwright born in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. From a literary family, she wrote five novels. Her first and best known, ''The Helmet of ...

(1879–1958), American novelist and playwright *

Bertha Ryland Bertha Wilmot Ryland (12 October 1882 – April 1977) was a militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who after slashing a painting in Birmingham Art Gallery in 1914 went on hunger strike in HM Prison Bir ...

(1882–1977), English militant suffragette *

Bertha Sánchez Bertha Oliva Sánchez Rivera (born November 4, 1978) is a female long-distance runner from Colombia, who won several medals on continental level from the mid-1990s on. Career She has won twice at the South American Cross Country Championships ...

(born 1978), Colombian long-distance runner * Bertha Schaefer (1895–1971), American designer and gallery director *

Bertha Schrader Bertha Schrader (11 June 1845 – 11 May 1920) was a German painter, lithographer, and woodblock print-maker. Biography Schrader was born on 11 June 1845, in Memel, Lithuania. She studied with Carl Graeb's son Paul Graeb (1842-1892) in Berlin ...

(1845–1920), German painter, lithographer, and woodblock print-maker *

Bertha von Suttner Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Bohemian nobility, Austro-Bohemian noblewoman, Pacifism, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), th ...

(1843–1914), Austrian novelist and pacifist *

Bertha Swirles Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (22 May 1903 – 18 December 1999) was an English physicist, academic and scientific author who carried out research on quantum theory in its early days. She was associated with Girton College, University of Cam ...

(1903–1999), English physicist and applied mathematician *

Bertha Tammelin ''Bertha'' Carolina Mathilda Tammelin, née ''Bock'' (21 March 1836 – 2 January 1915) was a Swedish actress, operatic mezzo-soprano, pianist, composer and drama teacher. Her mother was actress Karolina Bock. Tammelin taught at the Royal Dramati ...

, (1836–1915), Swedish musician, composer and singer *

Bertha Teague Bertha F. Teague (September 17, 1906 – June 13, 1991) was an American basketball coach, born in Carthage, Missouri, USA. She coached the Byng High School girls' team in Byng, Oklahoma (near Ada, Oklahoma) for 42 years (from 1927 to 1969) with a ...

(1906–1991), Hall of Fame basketball coach * Bertha Thalheimer (1883–1959), German activist and politician *

Bertha Thomas __NOTOC__ Bertha Thomas (19 March 1845 – 24 August 1918), was a Victorian pro-feminist writer, author of the 1880 novel ''The Violin Player''. Life Thomas was born in Shelsleys, Shelsley, Worcestershire. Her father was Canon John Thomas (died 1 ...

(1845-1918), English author *

Bertha Townsend Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin (''née'' Townsend; March 7, 1869 – May 12, 1909) was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships (now U ...

(1869–1909), American tennis player * Bertha L. Turner (1867–1938), American caterer, cookbook author, and community leader *

Bertha Valerius Aurora Valeria Albertina Valerius, known as Bertha (21 January 1824, Stockholm – 24 March 1895, Stockholm), was a Swedish photographer and painter.''Svenskt konstnärslexikon'', Part V, pg. 572, Allhems Förlag AB, 1953, Malmö. Biography Bert ...

(1824–1895), Swedish photographer * Bertha Valkenburg (1862-1929), Dutch artist *

Bertha Vyver Bertha Vyver (11 June 1854 – 20 November 1941) was a caretaker for Scottish poet Charles Mackay and the companion of Marie Corelli. From 1875 until his death in 1889, Vyver kept house and nursed Mackay, later caring for her own mother prior to ...

(1854–1941), caretaker for Scottish poet

Charles Mackay Charles MacKay (born May 1950, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American arts administrator, known for leadership roles at the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Spoleto Festival USA/ Festival of Two Worlds. Early experience MacKay i ...

and the companion of

Marie Corelli Mary Mackay (1 May 185521 April 1924), also called Minnie Mackey and known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli (, also , ), was an English novelist. From the appearance of her first novel '' A Romance of Two Worlds'' in 1886, she became a bestselli ...

Bertha Wegmann Bertha Wegmann (1847–1926) was a Danish portrait painter of Swiss ancestry. She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Life When Bertha Wegmann was five years old, her family moved to Copenhagen, where her ...

(1847–1926), Danish painter *

Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (25 January 1815 – 6 December 1901) was a German photographer. She appears to have been Germany's first professional female photographer, and was possibly also the first professional female photographer in the world, bein ...

(1815–1901), German photographer * Bertha Wellin (1870–1951), Swedish politician and nurse * Bertha Whedbee (1876–1960), American activist, suffragist, and police officer *

Bertha Yerex Whitman Bertha Yerex Whitman (1892–1984) was an American architect who was the first woman to graduate in architecture from the University of Michigan. She had a long career as an architect in Illinois, especially around Evanston and Glencoe. Early l ...

(1892–1984), American architect *

Bertha Wiernik Bertha Wiernik (March 21, 1884 – 1951) was a Lithuanian-born American writer who wrote for Jewish publications in English and Yiddish. Bertha Wiernik was born on March 21, 1884 in Vilnius, the daughter of Hirsch Wolf Wiernik, a ''maggid'', and ...

(1884-1951), Jewish American writer *

Bertha Willmott Bertha Mary Willmott (16 September 1894 – 3 June 1973)Ber ...

(1894–1973), British actress, comedienne, singer and performer *

Bertha Wilson Bertha Wernham Wilson (September 18, 1923April 28, 2007) was a Canadian jurist and the first female puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Before her ascension to Canada's highest court, she was the first female associate and partner ...

(1923–2007), first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada * Bertha M. Wilson (1874–1936), American dramatist, critic, actress *

Bertha Wright Bertha Wright (June 17, 1876 – May 6, 1971) was a pioneering public health nurse, one of the founders of the Baby Hospital, which later became the Children's Hospital Oakland. Early life Bertha Wright was born in San Francisco, on June 17, 187 ...

(1876–1971), American nurse * Bertha Zillessen (1872–1936), German painter and photographer *

Bertha Zück Anna Barbara "Bertha" Zück (2 February 1797 – 20 February 1868 at Stockholm Palacesvar.ra.se, SCB döda, Stockholms katolskaAnna Barbara Zück/ref>), also called Babette, was the German favourite, Lady's maid and treasurer of Queen Josephine o ...

(1797–1868), German-Swedish royal treasurer *

Bertha Zuricher Bertha Züricher or Berthe Zuricker (20 March 1869 – 7 October 1949) was a Switzerland, Swiss author, painter and engraver. Life Züricher was born in Bern on 20 March 1869. She was known for her paintings and engravings of genre scenes, land ...

(1869–1949), Swiss author, painter and engraver

Fictional characters

* Bertha Cool, main character in the fictional of a series of novels titled ''Cool and Lam'' *

Bertha Marilla ''Rilla of Ingleside'' (1921) is the eighth and last novel in the ''Anne of Green Gables'' series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbe ...

, main character of the eighth book in the ''

Anne of Green Gables ''Anne of Green Gables'' is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-20th century. Set in the late 19th century, t ...

'' series, '' Rilla of Ingleside'' * Bertha Mason, character in

Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Nicholls (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë family, Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novel ...

's 1847 novel ''

Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The firs ...

'' * Bertha Russell, main character in the American television series, ''

The Gilded Age In United States history, the Gilded Age is the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain's 1873 novel '' The G ...

'' * Big Bertha, superhero appearing in comic books published by

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