Medieval women without surnames •
Gertrude of Aldenberg (1227–1297), daughter of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia and abbess near Trier •
Gertrude of Austria (1226–1288), Duchess of Austria and Styria •
Gertrude of Babenberg, Duchess of Bohemia (c. 1118–1150) •
Gertrude of Baden (c. 1160–1225), Margravine of Baden •
Gertrude of Bavaria (died 1197), daughter of Henry the Lion, Queen consort of Denmark •
Gertrude of Brunswick (c. 1060–1117), Margravine of Frisia and Meissen •
Gertrude of Comburg (died 1130), Queen consort of Germany •
Gertrude of Dagsburg (died 1225), Duchess of Lorraine •
Gertrude of Delft (died 1358), Dutch Beguine and mystic •
Gertrude of Flanders, Countess of Savoy (1135–1186) •
Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine (c. 1070–1117) •
Gertrude the Great (1256–c. 1302), also known as Gertrude of Helfta, German Benedictine nun, mystic and theologian, considered a Roman Catholic saint though never officially canonized •
Gertrude of Hackeborn (1223–1292), Abbess of Helfta • Gertrude of Hamage (died 649),
saint, founder of the convent Hamage •
Gertrude of Hohenberg (c. 1225–1281), Queen consort of Germany •
Gertrude of Merania (1185–1213), Queen consort and regent of Hungary •
Gertrude of Nivelles (c. 628–659), Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint, abbess and co-founder of the Abbey of Nivelles •
Gertrude of Poland ( 1025–1108), Grand Princess Consort of Kiev •
Gertrude of Saxony or Gertrude of Holland (ca.1030-1113), wife of Robert I of Flanders, regent of Holland •
Gertrude of Sulzbach (c. 1110–1146), Queen consort of Germany •
Gertrude of Süpplingenburg (1115–1143), Duchess of Bavaria and Saxony
A •
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 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 •
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
B •
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
C •
Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888–1985), English archaeologist •
Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951), child-friend of English author Lewis Carroll •
Gertrude Chibagu, Zimbabwean politician •
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 Crocker (1884–1969), American suffragist
D •
Gertrude Degenhardt (1940–2025), German lithographer and illustrator •
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 baseball player
E •
Gertrude Eastmond (died 2024), Barbadian businesswoman and politician •
Gertrude Ederle (1905–2003), American competitive swimmer •
Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and pharmacologist •
Gertrude Elles (1872–1960), British geologist
F •
Gertrude Falk (1925–2008), American physiologist •
Gertrude Franklin (1858–1913), American singer and music educator •
Gertrud Fridh (1921–1984), Swedish stage and film actress
G •
Gertrude Gabl (1948–1976), Austrian alpine skier •
Gertrud Grunow (1870–1944), first woman teacher at the Bauhaus art school
H •
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
J •
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer •
Gertraud Junge (1920–2002), Adolf Hitler's last private secretary
K •
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
L •
Gertrude Lane (died 1953), American trade unionist •
Gertrude Battles Lane (1874–1941), American magazine editor •
Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952), born Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen, English actress, singer, dancer and performer •
Gertrud Leutenegger (1948–2025), German-speaking Swiss writer •
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
M •
Gertrud Månsson (1866–1935), Swedish politician, first woman on the Stockholm city council •
Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749–1833), German operatic soprano •
Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959), pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist and criminologist •
Gertrude Mongella (born 1945), Tanzanian politician •
Gertrude Morgan (1900–1980), African-American artist, musician, poet and preacher •
Gertrude Comfort Morrow (c. 1888–1983), American architect
N •
Gertrude Nafe (1883–1971), American teacher, essayist, and communist short-story writer •
Gertrude Neumark (1927–2010), American physicist
O •
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
P •
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 •
Gertrud von Puttkamer (1881–1944), German erotic writer
R • Gertrude Pridgett Rainey (1882–1939), better known as
Ma Rainey, blues singer •
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
S •
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 •
Gertrude Stanton (1863–1931), American optometrist •
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
T •
Gertrude Townend, British nurse and suffragette
U •
Trude Unruh (1925–2021), German politician
V • Gertrude Vachon (1962–2010), better known as
Luna Vachon, American professional wrestler •
Gertrude Vaile (1878–1954), American social worker •
W •
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==