Gert

Gert is a mainly masculine given name, with some female bearers.
Since 1993 no one in Sweden has been baptised as Gert according to the Swedish Bureau of Census, so the name is becoming increasingly rare. In 2010 around 12,000 in Sweden had the name as their first name according to the same source. Gert is most common in Sweden among men over 50 years of age. Around 400 women in Sweden have Gert as their first name according to the Swedish Bureau of Census.

Sports

Gert Aandewiel, Dutch football player and manager
Gert Andersen, Danish handball player
Gert Bals, Dutch footballer
Gert Bender, German motorcycle racer
Gerrit Gert van den Berg (cyclist), Dutch cyclist
Gert Blomé, Swedish ice hockey player
Gert Bolmer, Dutch dressage equestrian
Gert Bongers, Dutch track cyclist
Gert Brauer, German footballer
Gert Cannaerts, Belgian footballer
Gert Claessens, Belgian footballer
Gert Coetzer, South African rugby player
Gert De Kock, South African rugby player
Gert Dockx, Belgian road cyclist
Gert Dorbek, Estonian basketball player
Gert Dörfel, German footballer
Gert Doumen, Belgian football goalkeeper
Gert Eg, Danish footballer
Gert Elsässer, Austrian skeleton racer
Gert Engels, German footballer
Gert Frank, Danish cyclist
Gert Fredriksson, Swedish sprint canoer and coach
Gert Handberg, Danish motorcycle racer
Gert Heerkes, Dutch football manager
Gert Heidler, German footballer
Gert Bo Jacobsen, Danish boxer
Gert Jakobs, Dutch racing cyclist
Gert Jõeäär, Estonian road bicycle racer
Gert Kams, Estonian footballer
Gert Kleinert, East German slalom canoeist
Gert Kölli, Austrian swimmer
Gert Krenn, Austrian bobsledder
Gert Kruys, Dutch football player and manager
Gert Kullamäe, Estonian basketball player
Gert Jan Lebbink, Dutch sprint canoer
Gert Lotter, Namibian cricketer and rugby player
Gert Lundqvist, Swedish footballer
Gert Metz, German sprinter
Gert Muller (rugby union, born 1948), South African rugby union player
Gert Muller (rugby union, born 1986), South African rugby union player
Gert Olesk, Estonian footballer
Gert Peens, South African-born Italian rugby player
Gert Pettersson, Swedish orienteering competitor
Gert Potgieter (athlete), South African hurdle runner
Gert Remmel, Estonian footballer and coach
Gert Schalkwyk, South African footballer
Gert Jan Schlatmann, Dutch field hockey player
Gert Smal, South African rugby player
Gert Steegmans, Belgian road bicycle racer
Gert Thys, South African long-distance runner
Gert Trasha, Albanian weightlifter
Gert Trinklein, German footballer
Gert van der Merwe, South African paralympic athlete
Gert Van Walle, Belgian volleyball player
Gert Verheyen, Belgian retired footballer
Gert Weil, Chilean retired shot putter
Gert Wieczorkowski, German footballer
Gert Jan van Woudenberg, Dutch rower
Gert Wünsche, German footballer

Arts and entertainment

Gert Bettens, Belgian guitarist
Gert Chesi, Austrian photographer, author, journalist and filmmaker
Gert van Egen, Flemish sculptor active in Denmark
Gert Fredholm, Danish film director and screenwriter
Karl Gerhart Gert Fröbe, German actor
Gert Fylking, Swedish actor, journalist, politician and anchorman
Gert van Groningen, Dutch-born sculptor active in Denmark
Gert Haucke, German film and television actor
Gert Helbemäe, Estonian writer and journalist
Gert Hildebrand, German car designer
Gert Hofbauer, Austrian conductor and trumpeter
Gert Günther Hoffmann, German actor and director
Gert Hofmann, German writer and literary scholar
Gert Jonke, Austrian poet, playwright and novelist
Gert Krawinkel, German guitarist known as "Kralle"
Robert Gerhard Gert Ledig, German writer
Gert Louis Lamartine, German painter, sculptor and interior designer
Gert Miltzow, Norwegian clergyman, theologian and historical writer
Gert Neuhaus, German artist
Gert Nygårdshaug, Norwegian author
Gert Palmcrantz, Swedish sound engineer
Gert Potgieter (tenor), South African tenor
Gert Prokop, German science fiction writer
Gert Sellheim, German-Australian artist
Gert Smit, South African singer known as "Gene Rockwell"
Gert van den Bergh, South African film actor
Gert Verhulst, Belgian television presenter, actor and singer
Gert Vlok Nel, South African poet
Gert Voss, German actor
Gert Wiescher, German graphic artist, type designer and author
Gert Wilden, German film composer
Gert Wingårdh, Swedish architect
Gert Heinrich Wollheim, German painter

Politics and military

Gert Alberts, South African Voortrekker
Gert Bastian, German military officer and politician
Gerrit Gert van den Berg (politician), Dutch politician
Gert Boshoff, South African Army lieutenant general
Gert Haller, German politician and manager
Gert Jeschonnek, German navy officer
Gert Petersen, Danish journalist and politician who helped found the Socialist People's Party
Gert Rosenthal, Guatemalan diplomat
Gerhardus Gert Rudolph, South African Voortrekker and political leader
Gerrit Gert Schutte, Dutch politician
Richard Gert Sibande, South African political activist
Gert Weisskirchen, German politician
Gert Willner, German politician

Science and math

Gert Holstege, Dutch neuroscientist
Gert Korthof, Dutch biologist
Gert Mittring, German mental calculator
Gert Cornelius Nel, South African botanist
Gert Sabidussi, Austrian mathematician
Gert Spaargaren, Dutch environmental sociologist

Board games

Gert Ligterink, Dutch chess player
Gert Schnider, Austrian board-game player
Gert Jan Timmerman, Dutch correspondence chess player

Business

Gertrude Gert Boyle, German-born American businesswoman
Gert Joubert, Namibian businessperson
Gert Van Mol, Belgian entrepreneur and CEO

Other fields

Gert Postel, German impostor
Gert Schramm, German concentration camp survivor
Cornelius Gerhardus Gert van Rooyen, South African pedophile and serial killer

Fictional characters

One of the title characters of Gert and Daisy, a British film and radio comedy act
One of the title characters of the TV series Samson en Gert, a Flemish children's series
Gertrude Yorkes, a Marvel Comics superheroine and member of ''The Runaways''