Gert

Gert
Pronunciation	English: /ˈɡɜːrt/ GURT ; German: [ˈɡɛʁt] ; Swedish: [ˈjæʈː] ; Dutch: [ˈɣɛrt] ; Afrikaans: [ˈχɛrt]
Gender	Masculine
Origin
Word/name	Dutch, German, North Germanic, Belgium
Meaning	Gerard
Other names
Related names	Geert, Gerard, Gerd, Gerhard

Last updated March 06, 2025

Gert is a mainly masculine given name (sometimes a short form of Gerrit, Gerard, etc.), with some female bearers (short for Gertrude).^[1]

Since 1993 no one in Sweden has been baptised as Gert according to the Swedish Bureau of Census,^{[ citation needed ]} 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 (born 1969), Dutch football player and manager
Gert Andersen (born 1939), Danish handball player
Gert Bals (1936–2016), Dutch footballer
Gert Bender (born 1948), German motorcycle racer
Gerrit Gert van den Berg (cyclist) (1903-?), Dutch cyclist
Gert Blomé (1934–2021), Swedish ice hockey player
Gert Bolmer (born 1983), Dutch dressage equestrian
Gert Bongers (born 1946), Dutch track cyclist
Gert Brauer (1955–2018), German footballer
Gert Cannaerts (born 1963), Belgian footballer
Gert Claessens (born 1972), Belgian footballer
Gert Coetzer (1940s—2018), 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 Elsässer (born 1949), Austrian skeleton racer
Gert Engels (born 1957), German footballer
Gert Frank (1956–2019), Danish cyclist
Gert Fredriksson (1919-2006), Swedish sprint canoer and coach
Gert Handberg (born 1969), Danish motorcycle racer
Gert Heerkes (born 1965), Dutch football manager
Gert Heidler (born 1948), German footballer
Gert Bo Jacobsen (born 1961), Danish boxer
Gert Jakobs (born 1964), Dutch racing cyclist
Gert Jõeäär (born 1987), Estonian road bicycle racer
Gert Kams (born 1985), Estonian footballer
Gert Kleinert (born 1930s), East German slalom canoeist
Gert Kölli (1940–2016), Austrian swimmer
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
Gert Lotter (born 1993), Namibian cricketer and rugby player
Gert Lundqvist (1937–2001), Swedish footballer
Gert Metz (1942–2021), 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 (born 1973), Estonian footballer
Gert Peens (born 1974), South African-born Italian rugby player
Gert Pettersson (born 1950s), Swedish orienteering competitor
Gert Potgieter (athlete) (born 1937), South African hurdle runner
Gert Remmel (born 1975), Estonian footballer and coach
Gert Schalkwyk (born 1982), South African footballer
Gert Jan Schlatmann (born 1963), Dutch field hockey player
Gert Smal (born 1961), South African rugby player
Gert Steegmans (born 1980), Belgian road bicycle racer
Gert Thys (born 1971), South African long-distance runner
Gert Trasha (born 1988), Albanian weightlifter
Gert Trinklein (1949–2017), German footballer
Gert van der Merwe, South African paralympic athlete
Gert Van Walle (born 1987), Belgian volleyball player
Gert Verheyen (born 1970), Belgian retired footballer
Gert Weil (born 1960), Chilean retired shot putter
Gert Wieczorkowski (born 1948), German footballer
Gert Jan van Woudenberg (born 1951), Dutch rower
Gert Wünsche (born 1943), German footballer

Arts and entertainment

Gert Bettens (born 1970), Belgian guitarist
Gert Chesi (born 1940), Austrian photographer, author, journalist and filmmaker
Gert van Egen (c. 1550–1612), Flemish sculptor active in Denmark
Gert Fredholm (born 1941), Danish film director and screenwriter
Karl Gerhart 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 Haucke (1929–2008), German film and television actor
Gert Helbemäe (1913–1974), Estonian writer and journalist
Gert Hildebrand (born 1953), German car designer
Gert Hofbauer (1937–2017), Austrian conductor and trumpeter
Gert Günther Hoffmann (1929–1997), German actor and director
Gert Hofmann (1931–1993), German writer and literary scholar
Gert Jonke (1946-2009), Austrian poet, playwright and novelist
Gert Krawinkel (1947–2014), German guitarist known as "Kralle"
Robert Gerhard Gert Ledig (1921–1999), German writer
Gert Louis Lamartine (1898–1966), German painter, sculptor and interior designer
Gert Miltzow (1629–1668), Norwegian clergyman, theologian and historical writer
Gert Neuhaus (born 1939), German artist
Gert Nygårdshaug (born 1946), Norwegian author
Gert Palmcrantz (born 1938), Swedish sound engineer
Gert Potgieter (tenor) (1929–1977), South African tenor
Gert Prokop (1932–1994), German science fiction writer
Gert Sellheim (1901–1970), German-Australian artist
Gert Smit (1944–1998), South African singer known as "Gene Rockwell"
Gert van den Bergh (1920–1968), South African film actor
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 Wiescher (1944–2022), German graphic artist, type designer and author
Gert Wilden (1917–2015), German film composer
Gert Wingårdh (born 1951), Swedish architect
Gert Heinrich Wollheim (1894–1974), German painter

Politics and military

Gert Alberts (1836–1927), South African Voortrekker
Gert Bastian (1923–1992), German military officer and politician
Gerrit Gert van den Berg (politician) (born 1935), Dutch politician
Gert Boshoff (1931–2014), South African Army lieutenant general
Gert Haller (1944–2010), German politician and manager
Gert Jeschonnek (1912–1999), German navy officer
Gert Petersen (1927-2009), Danish journalist and politician who helped found the Socialist People's Party
Gert Rosenthal (born 1935), Guatemalan diplomat
Gerhardus Gert Rudolph (1797–1851), South African Voortrekker and political leader
Gerrit Gert Schutte (1939-2022), Dutch politician
Richard Gert Sibande (1907–1987), South African political activist
Gert Weisskirchen (born 1944), German politician
Gert Willner (1940–2000), German politician

Science and math

Gert Holstege (born 1948), Dutch neuroscientist
Gert Korthof, Dutch biologist
Gert Mittring (born 1966), German mental calculator
Gert Cornelius Nel (1885–1950), South African botanist
Gert Sabidussi (1929–2022), Austrian mathematician
Gert Spaargaren (born 1954), Dutch environmental sociologist

Board games

Gert Ligterink (born 1949), Dutch chess player
Gert Schnider (born 1979), Austrian board-game player
Gert Jan Timmerman (born 1956), Dutch correspondence chess player

Business

Gertrude Gert Boyle (1924–2019), German-born American businesswoman
Gert Joubert (born 1948), Namibian businessperson
Gert Van Mol (born 1969), Belgian entrepreneur and CEO

Other fields

Gert Postel (born 1958), German impostor
Gert Schramm (1928–2016), German concentration camp survivor
Cornelius Gerhardus Gert van Rooyen (1938–1990), 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

References

↑ Behind the Name: Gert