Gertrude (given name)

People

Medieval women without surnames

• Gertrude of Aldenberg, daughter of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia and abbess near Trier
• Gertrude of Austria, Duchess of Austria and Styria
• Gertrude of Babenberg, Duchess of Bohemia
• Gertrude of Baden, Margravine of Baden
• Gertrude of Bavaria, daughter of Henry the Lion, Queen consort of Denmark
• Gertrude of Brunswick, Margravine of Frisia and Meissen
• Gertrude of Comburg, Queen consort of Germany
• Gertrude of Dagsburg, Duchess of Lorraine
• Gertrude of Delft, Dutch Beguine and mystic
• Gertrude of Flanders, Countess of Savoy
• Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine
• Gertrude the Great, also known as Gertrude of Helfta, German Benedictine nun, mystic and theologian, considered a Roman Catholic saint though never officially canonized
• Gertrude of Hackeborn, Abbess of Helfta
• Gertrude of Hamage, saint, founder of the convent Hamage
• Gertrude of Hohenberg, Queen consort of Germany
• Gertrude of Merania, Queen consort and regent of Hungary
• Gertrude of Nivelles, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint, abbess and co-founder of the Abbey of Nivelles
• Gertrude of Poland, Grand Princess Consort of Kiev
• Gertrude of Saxony or Gertrude of Holland, wife of Robert I of Flanders, regent of Holland
• Gertrude of Sulzbach, Queen consort of Germany
• Gertrude of Süpplingenburg, Duchess of Bavaria and Saxony

  A

• Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter based in Chicago
• Gertrud Adelborg, Swedish suffragist
• Gertrud Ahlgren, Swedish folk healer
• Gertrude Alderfer, American baseball player
• Gertrude Ansell, British suffragette, animal rights activist and businesswoman
• Gertrude Appleyard, British archer
• Gertrude Aretz, German historian and publisher
• Gertrude Astor, American motion-picture character actress
• Gertrude Atherton, American writer
• Gertrude Aubauer, Austrian journalist and politician
• Gertraud Auinger-Oberzaucher, Austrian politician

  B

• Gertrud Bacher, retired Italian heptathlete
• Gertrude Bacon, aeronautical pioneer and writer with contributions in astronomy and botany
• Gertrud Baer, one of the founders of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Gertrude Bambrick, American silent-film actress
• Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer
• Gertrud Bäumer, German politician and feminist
• Gertrude Bell,, archaeologist and spy
• Gertrude Barrows Bennett, American writer of fantasy and science fiction
• Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter
• Gertrude Bernard, Mohawk woman and companion of Grey Owl
• Gertrud Bing, German scholar and director of the Warburg Institute
• Gertrude Blanch, American mathematician
• Gertrude Bloede, American poet
• Gertrude Blom, Swiss journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer
• Gertrude Elizabeth Blood, Irish-born journalist, author, playwright, and editor
• Gertrude Bonnin, Sioux writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist
• Gertrud Bürgers-Laurenz, German flower and portrait painter
• Gertrude Bryan, stage actress on Broadway

  C

• Gertrude Caton Thompson, English archaeologist
• Gertrude Chataway, child-friend of English author Lewis Carroll
• Gertrude Chibagu, Zimbabwean politician
• Gertrude Claire, American stage and silent-film actress
• Gertrud Cohn, German victim of the Nazi regime
• Gertrude Colburn, American dancer and sculptor
• Gertrude Cosgrove, wife of Sir Robert Cosgrove, twice elected as Premier of Tasmania
• Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter, a lady at the court of Henry VIII of England
• Gertrude Mary Cox, American statistician
• Gertrude Crain, American publishing executive
• Gertrude Crampton, American children's writer and teacher
• Gertrude Crocker, American suffragist

  D

• Gertrude Degenhardt, German lithographer and illustrator
• Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman, British women's rights activist
• Gertrud Hedwig Anna Dohm, German actress
• Gertrud Dorka, German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director
• Gertrude Dunn, American baseball player

  E

• Gertrude Eastmond, Barbadian businesswoman and politician
• Gertrude Ederle, American competitive swimmer
• Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist
• Gertrude Elles, British geologist

  F

• Gertrude Falk, American physiologist
• Gertrude Franklin, American singer and music educator
• Gertrud Fridh, Swedish stage and film actress

  G

• Gertrude Gabl, Austrian alpine skier
• Gertrud Grunow, first woman teacher at the Bauhaus art school

  H

• Gertrud Hanna, German activist and politician
• Gertrude Healy, Australian violinist, educator
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
• Gertrud von Hindenburg, German noblewoman and wife of Paul von Hindenburg

  J

• Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer
• Gertraud Junge, Adolf Hitler's last private secretary

  K

• Gertrude Kleinová, Czech three-time table tennis world champion
• Gertrud Koch, German resistance fighter
• Gertrud Kolmar, German lyric poet and writer
• Gertrud Kraus, Israeli pioneer of modern dance
• Gertrude Kuh, American landscape architect

  L

• Gertrude Lane, American trade unionist
• Gertrude Battles Lane, American magazine editor
• Gertrude Lawrence, born Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen, English actress, singer, dancer and performer
• Gertrud Leutenegger, German-speaking Swiss writer
• Gertrude Rachel Levy, author and cultural historian
• Gertrude Golda Lowy, English suffragette
• Gertrud Luckner, German Christian resister against Nazism

  M

• Gertrud Månsson, Swedish politician, first woman on the Stockholm city council
• Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, German operatic soprano
• Frances Gertrude McGill , pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist and criminologist
• Gertrude Mongella, Tanzanian politician
• Gertrude Morgan, African-American artist, musician, poet and preacher
• Gertrude Comfort Morrow, American architect

  N

• Gertrude Nafe, American teacher, essayist, and communist short-story writer
• Gertrude Neumark, American physicist

  O

• Gertrud Orff, one of the first German music therapists
• Gertrud Otto, German art historian
• Gertrude Clare Owens, Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana

  P

• Gertrud Pätsch, German ethnologist and philologist
• Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren, Swedish mezzo-soprano
• Gertrude Penhall, American civic leader and clubwoman
• Gertrud von Puttkamer, German erotic writer

  R

• Gertrude Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey, blues singer
• Gertrud Rask, first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland, Hans Egede
• Gertrud Rittmann, German composer and music arranger in the United States

  S

• Gertrude Sawyer, American architect
• Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, German-born Jewish-American nuclear physicist
• Gertrud Schoenberg, second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg
• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, fervent Nazi Party member in Nazi Germany
• Gertrud Schüpbach, Swiss-American molecular biologist
• Gertrud Seidmann, Austrian-British linguist and jewelry historian
• Gertrud Skomagers, Danish alleged witch
• Gertrude Stanton, American optometrist
• Gertrúd Stefanek, Hungarian Olympic fencer
• Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
• Gertrude Story, Canadian writer and radio broadcaster
• Gertrude Strohm, American author, compiler, game designer
• Gertrud Szabolcsi, Hungarian biochemist

  T

• Gertrude Townend, British nurse and suffragette

  U

• Trude Unruh, German politician

  V

• Gertrude Vachon, better known as Luna Vachon, American professional wrestler
• Gertrude Vaile, American social worker

  W

• Gertrude Chandler Warner, American children's author
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor, art patron and collector
• Gertrude Walton Donahey, American politician
• Gertrude Weil, American activist in women's suffrage, labor reform, and civil rights
• Gertraud Winkelvoss, German neo-Nazi politician
• Gertrud Wolle, German film actress

  Fictional characters

• Gertrude, from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark
• Gertrud Barkhorn, from the anime/manga series Strike Witches
• Gertrude Gadwall, a member of Disney's Duck family
• Gertrude Robinson, the deceased previous Head Archivist in the podcast The Magnus Archives