# Gertrude (given name)

Gertrude (also spelled Gertrud) is a feminine given name which is derived from Germanic roots that meant "spear" and "strength". "Trudy", 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's novel The King's General, set in 17th-century Cornwall, England).
"Gertruda" is a rare variation used in the Soviet Union as an abbreviation of Geroy truda (the Hero of Labour).

## People
### A–D

* Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), American painter based in Chicago
* Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942), Swedish suffragist
* Gertrud Ahlgren (1782–1874), Swedish folk healer
* Gertrude Alderfer (1931–2018), American professional baseball player
* Gertrude Ansell (1861–1932), British suffragette, animal rights activist and businesswoman
* Gertrude Appleyard (1865–1917), British archer
* Gertrude Aretz (1889–1938), German historian and publisher
* Lillian Gertrud Asplund (1906–2006), American last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic––
* Gertrude Astor (1887–1977), American motion-picture character actress
* Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), American writer
* Gertrude Aubauer (born 1951), Austrian journalist and politician
* Gertraud Auinger-Oberzaucher (born 1971), Austrian politician
* Gertrud Bacher (born 1971), retired Italian heptathlete
* Gertrude Bacon (1874–1948), aeronautical pioneer and writer with contributions in astronomy and botany
* Gertrud Baer (1890–1981), one of the founders of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
* Gertrude Bambrick (1897–1974), American silent-film actress
* Gertrude Baniszewski (1929–1990), American murderer
* Gertrud Bäumer (1873–1954), German politician and feminist
* Gertrude Bell, (1868–1926), archaeologist and spy
* Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948), American writer of fantasy and science fiction
* Gertrude Berg (1894–1966), American actress and screenwriter
* Gertrude Bernard (1906–1986), Mohawk woman and companion of Grey Owl
* Gertrud Bing (1892–1964), German scholar and director of the Warburg Institute
* Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American mathematician
* Gertrude Bloede (1845–1905), American poet
* Gertrude Blom (1901–1993), Swiss journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer
* Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857–1911), Irish-born journalist, author, playwright, and editor
* Gertrude Bonnin (1876–1938), Sioux writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist
* Gertrud Bürgers-Laurenz (1874- 959), German flower and portrait painter
* 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
* Gertrude Claire (1852–1928), American stage and silent-film actress
* Gertrud Cohn (1876–1942), German victim of the Nazi regime
* Gertrude Colburn (1886–1968), American dancer and sculptor
* Gertrude Cosgrove (1882–1962), wife of Sir Robert Cosgrove, twice elected as Premier of Tasmania
* Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter (before 1504–1558), a lady at the court of Henry VIII of England
* Gertrude Mary Cox (1900–1978), American statistician
* Gertrude Crain (1911–1996), American publishing executive
* Gertrude Crampton (1909–1996), American children's writer and teacher
* Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman (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
* Gertrude Dunn (1933–2004), American professional baseball player

### E–N

* Gertrude Ederle (1905–2003), American competitive swimmer
* Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and pharmacologist
* Gertrude Elles (1872–1960), British geologist known for her work on graptolites
* Gertrude Falk (1925–2008), American physiologist
* Gertrude Franklin (1858–1913), American singer and music educator
* Gertrud Fridh (1921–1984), Swedish stage and film actress
* Gertrude Gabl (1948–1976), Austrian alpine skier
* Gertrude the Great (1256 – c. 1302), also known as Saint Gertrude of Helfta, German Benedictine nun, mystic, and theologian
* Gertrud Grunow (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
* Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), American historian
* Gertrud von Hindenburg (1860–1921), German noblewoman and wife of Paul von Hindenburg
* Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer
* Gertraud Junge (1920–2002), Adolf Hitler's last private secretary
* Gertrude Kleinová (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
* Gertrud Kraus (1901–1977), Israeli pioneer of modern dance
* Gertrude Kuh (1893–1977), American landscape architect
* Gertrude Lane (d. 1953), American trade unionist
* Gertrude Battles Lane (1874–1941), American editor
* Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952), Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen. English actress, singer, dancer and performer
* Gertrude Rachel Levy (1884–1966), author and cultural historian
* Gertrude Golda Lowy (1887–1982), English suffragette
* Gertrud Luckner (1900–1995), German Christian resister against Nazism
* Gertrud Månsson (1866–1935), Swedish politician, the first woman in the Stockholm city council
* Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749–1833), German operatic soprano
* Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959), pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist and criminologist
* Sarah Gertrude Millin (1889–1968), South African author
* Gertrude Mongella (born 1945), Tanzanian politician
* Gertrude Morgan (1900–1980), African-American artist, musician, poet and preacher
* Gertrude Comfort Morrow (ca. 1888–1983), American architect
* Gertrude Nafe (1883 – 1971), American teacher, essayist, and Communist short-story writer
* Gertrude Neumark (1927–2010), American physicist
* Gertrude of Nivelles (c. 628–659), seventh-century abbess, co-founder of the Abbey of Nivelles located in present-day Belgium

### O–Z

* Gertrud Orff (1914–2000), one of the first German music therapists
* 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
* Gertrud Pätsch (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, blues singer
* Gertrud von Puttkamer (1881–1944), German erotic writer
* Gertrud Rask (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
* Gertrud Schoenberg (1898–1967), second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg
* Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902–1999), fervent Nazi Party (NSDAP) member in Nazi Germany
* Gertrud Schüpbach (born 1950), Swiss-American molecular biologist
* Gertrud Seidmann (1919–2013), Austrian-British linguist and jewelry historian
* Gertrud Skomagers (died 1556), Danish alleged witch
* Gertrúd Stefanek (born 1959), Hungarian Olympic fencer
* Gertrude Stein (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, American professional wrestler
* Gertrude Vaile (1878–1954), American social worker
* Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979), American children's author
* Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector
* Gertrude Walton Donahey (1908–2004), American politician
* Gertrude Weil (1879–1971), American activist in women's suffrage, labor reform, and civil rights
* Gertraud Winkelvoss (1917–1981), German neo-Nazi politician
* Gertrud Wolle (1891–1952), 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