Gert

Gert is a mainly masculine given name (short form of Gerrit, Gerard, etc.) with some female bearers (short for Gertrude). ^[1] Pronunciation is typically /ˈχɛrt/ in Afrikaans and Dutch, /ˈgɛrt/ in Danish and German, /jært/ in Swedish, and /ˈɡɜːrt/ in English.

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 males over 50 years of age. Around 400 females in Sweden have Gert as their first name according to the Swedish Bureau of Census.

It may refer to:

Men

• Gert Aandewiel (born 1969), Dutch football player and manager
• Gert Alberts (1836–1927), South African Voortrekker
• Gert Andersen (born 1939), Danish handball player
• Gert Bals (1936–2016), Dutch footballer
• Gert Bastian (1923–1992), German military officer and politician
• Gert Bender (born 1948), German motorcycle racer
• Gerrit Gert van den Berg (cyclist) (1903-?), Dutch cyclist
• Gerrit Gert van den Berg (politician) (born 1935), Dutch politician
• Gert Bettens (born 1970), Belgian guitarist
• Gert Blomé (born 1934), Swedish ice hockey player
• Gert Bolmer (born 1983), Dutch dressage equestrian
• Gert Bongers (born 1946), Dutch track cyclist
• Gert Boshoff (1931–2014), South African Army lieutenant general
• Gert Brauer (born 1955), German footballer
• Gert Chesi (born 1940), Austrian photographer, author, journalist and filmmaker
• Gert Claessens (born 1972), Belgian footballer
• Gert Coetzer (born 1940s), South African rugby player
• Gert De Kock (born 1980), South African rugby player
• Gert Dockx (born 1988), Belgian road cyclist
• Gert Dorbek (born 1985), Estonian basketball player
• Gert Dörfel (born 1939), German footballer
• Gert Doumen (born 1971), Belgian football goalkeeper
• Gert Eg (born 1954), Danish footballer
• Gert van Egen (c. 1550–1612), Flemish sculptor active in Denmark
• Gert Elsässer (born 1949), Austrian skeleton racer
• Gert Engels (born 1957), German footballer
• Gert Frank (born 1956), Danish cyclist
• Gert Fredholm (born 1941), Danish film director and screenwriter
• Gert Fredriksson (1919-2006), Swedish sprint canoer and coach
• Gert Fröbe (1913–1988), German actor
• Gert Fylking (born 1945), Swedish actor, journalist, politician and anchorman
• Gert van Groningen (died 1577), Dutch-born sculptor active in Denmark
• Gert Haller (1944–2010), German politician and manager
• Gert Handberg (born 1969), Danish motorcycle racer
• Gert Haucke (1929–2008), German film and television actor
• Gert Heerkes (born 1965), Dutch football manager
• Gert Heidler (born 1948), German footballer
• Gert Hildebrand (born 1953), German car designer
• Gert Hofbauer (born 1937), Austrian conductor and trumpeter
• Gert Günther Hoffmann (1929–1997), German actor and director
• Gert Hofmann (1931–1993), German writer and literary scholar
• Gert Holstege (born 1948), Dutch neuroscientist
• Gert Bo Jacobsen (born 1961), Danish boxer
• Gert Jakobs (born 1964), Dutch racing cyclist
• Gert Jeschonnek (1912–1999), German navy officer
• Gert Jõeäär (born 1987), Estonian road bicycle racer
• Gert Jonke (1946-2009), Austrian poet, playwright and novelist
• Gert Joubert (bor 1948), Namibian businessperson
• Gert Kams (born 1985), Estonian footballer
• Gert Kleinert (born 1930s), East German slalom canoeist
• Gert Kölli (born 1940), Austrian swimmer
• Gert Korthof, Dutch biologist
• Gert Krawinkel (1947–2014), German guitarist known as "Kralle"
• Gert Krenn, Austrian bobsledder
• Gert Kruys (born 1961), Dutch football player and manager
• Gert Kullamäe (born 1971), Estonian basketball player
• Gert Jan Lebbink (born 1961), Dutch sprint canoer
• Robert Gerhard Gert Ledig (1921–1999), German writer
• Gert Ligterink (born 1949), Dutch chess player
• Gert Lotter (born 1993), Namibian cricketer and rugby player
• Gert Lundqvist (1937–2001), Swedish footballer
• Gert Metz (born 1942), German sprinter
• Gert Miltzow (1629–1668), Norwegian clergyman, theologian and historical writer
• Gert Mittring (born 1966), German mental calculator
• Gert Muller (born 1985), South African rugby player
• Gert Cornelius Nel (1885–1950), South African botanist
• Gert Neuhaus (born 1939), German artist
• Gert Nygårdshaug (born 1946), Norwegian author
• Gert Olesk (born 1973), Estonian footballer
• Gert Palmcrantz (born 1938), Swedish sound engineer
• Gert Peens (born 1974), South African-born Italian rugby player
• Gert Petersen (1927-2009), Danish journalist and politician who helped found the Socialist People's Party
• Gert Pettersson (born 1950s), Swedish orienteering competitor
• Gert Postel (born 1958), German impostor
• Gert Potgieter (1929–1977), South African tenor
• Gert Potgieter (born 1937), South African hurdle runner
• Gert Prokop (1932–1994), German science fiction writer
• Gert Rosenthal (born 1935), Guatemalan diplomat
• Gerhardus Gert Rudolph (1797–1851), South African Voortrekker and political leader
• Gert Sabidussi (born 1929), Austrian mathematician
• Gert Schalkwyk (born 1982), South African footballer
• Gert Jan Schlatmann (born 1963), Dutch field hockey player
• Gert Schnider (born 1979), Austrian board-game player
• Gert Schramm (1928–2016), German concentration camp survivor
• Gerrit Gert Schutte (born 1939), Dutch politician
• Gert Sellheim (1901–1970), German-Australian artist
• Richard Gert Sibande (1907–1987), South African political activist
• Gert Smal (born 1961), South African rugby player
• Gert Smit (1944–1998), South African singer known as "Gene Rockwell"
• Gert Spaargaren (born 1954), Dutch environmental sociologist
• Gert Steegmans (born 1980), Belgian road bicycle racer
• Gert Thys (born 1971), South African long-distance runner
• Gert Jan Timmerman (born 1956), Dutch correspondence chess player
• Gert Trasha (born 1988), Albanian weightlifter
• Gert Trinklein (born 1949), German footballer
• Gert van den Bergh (1920–1968), South African film actor
• Gert van Kruiningen (born 1961), New Zealand aeronautical engineer
• Gert van der Merwe, South African paralympic athlete
• Gert Van Mol (born 1969), Belgian entrepreneur and CEO
• Gert van Rooyen (1938–1990), South Africa serial killer
• Gert Van Walle (born 1987), Belgian volleyball player
• Gert Verheyen (born 1970), Belgian retired footballer
• Gert Verhulst (born 1968), Belgian television presenter, actor and singer
• Gert Vlok Nel (born 1963), South African poet
• Gert Voss (1941–2014), German actor
• Gert Weil (born 1960), Chilean retired shot putter
• Gert Weisskirchen (born 1944), German politician
• Gert Wieczorkowski (born 1948), footballer
• Gert Wiescher (born 1944), German graphic artist, type designer and author
• Gert Wilden (1917–2015), German film composer
• Gert Willner (1940–2000), German politician
• Gert Wingårdh (born 1951), Swedish architect
• Gert Heinrich Wollheim (1894–1974), German painter
• Gert Jan van Woudenberg (born 1951), Dutch rower
• Gert Wünsche (born 1943), German footballer
• Gert Ditberg (born 2001), Professionelt gøthul

Women

• Gertrude Gert Boyle (born 1924), German-born American businesswoman
• Gertrude Gert Clarke (born ca. 1933), American nuclear scientist

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

References

See also

• Gert-Åke Bengtsson (born 1948), Swedish sports shooter
• Gert-Arne Nilsson (born 1941), Swedish footballer
• Gert-Dietmar Klause (born 1945), East German cross-country skier
• Gert-Inge Sigfridsson (born 1946), Swedish footballer
• Gert-Jan Bruggink (born 1981), Dutch show jumping equestrian
• Gert-Jan Dröge (1943–2007), Dutch television presenter
• Gert-Jan Kok (born 1986), Dutch motorcycle racer
• Gert-Jan Liefers (born 1978), Dutch middle distance runner
• Gert-Jan Oplaat (born 1964), Dutch politician
• Gert-Jan Prins (born 1961), Dutch free improvisation musician
• Gert-Jan Segers (born 1969), Dutch political scientist and politician
• Gert-Jan Tamerus (born 1980), Dutch footballer
• Gert-Jan Theunisse (born 1963), Dutch road cyclist
• Gert-Johan Coetzee (born 1987), South African fashion designer
• Gert-René Polli (born 1960), Austrian police officer