Gerrit is a
Dutch male name meaning "''brave with the spear''", the Dutch and Frisian form of
Gerard
Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other Germanic name, early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful ...
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Behind the Name: Gerrit-> People with this name include:
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Gerrit Achterberg (1905–1962), Dutch poet
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Gerrit van Arkel (1858–1918), Dutch architect
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Gerrit Badenhorst
Gerrit Badenhorst (born 10 October 1962) is a former WPC world champion powerlifter and professional strongman competitor from South Africa.
Powerlifting
Badenhorst was born on 10 October 1962 in De Aar, Northern Cape, South Africa.David Web ...
(born 1962), South African powerlifter and professional strongman competitor
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Gerrit Battem (c. 1636 – 1684), Dutch landscape painter
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Gerrit Beneker (1882–1934), American painter and illustrator
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Gerrit Berckheyde (1638–1698), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Berkhoff (1901–1996), Dutch chemist and university rector
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Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer (1903–1996), Dutch theologian
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Gerrit Berveling (born 1944), Dutch Esperanto author
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Gerrit Blaauw
Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (17 July 1924 – 21 March 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others. (1924–2018), Dutch computer engineer
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Gerrit de Blanken (1894–1961), Dutch pottery artist
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Gerrit van Bloclant (1578–1650), Dutch Renaissance painter
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Gerrit Bol (1906–1989), Dutch mathematician
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Gerrit Braamcamp (1699–1771), Dutch distiller, timber merchant and art collector
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Gerrit den Braber (1929–1997), Dutch songwriter and lyricist
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Gerrit Broekstra
Gerrit Broekstra (born 1 August 1941, Alkmaar, Netherlands), is a Dutch scientist and professor in the field of organization behavior and systems sciences at the Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Northwestern University, Chicago, and Nyenrode Bu ...
(born 1941), Dutch scientist and professor
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Gerrit Cole (born 1990), American baseball pitcher
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Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp (c. 1565–1644), Dutch painter and stained glass artist
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Gerrit J. Diekema (1859–1930), American politician
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Gerrit van Dijk
Gerrit van Dijk (5 December 1938 – 4 December 2012) was a Dutch animator, film maker, actor and painter.
Biography
Gerrit van Dijk was born in a Catholic family in the village of Volkel, in the municipality of Uden. He studied as a fifteen- ...
(1938–2012), Dutch animator, film maker, actor and painter
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Gerrit Dou
Gerrit Dou (; 7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675), also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for h ...
(1613–1675), Dutch painter
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Gerrit L. Dox (1784–1847), American politician
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Gerrit Faulhaber
Gerrit Henri Victor Lodewijk Faulhaber (22 September 1912 – 1951) was an Indonesian football midfielder who played for the Dutch East Indies in the 1938 FIFA World Cup
The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the 3rd edition of the FIFA World Cup, World ...
(1912–1951), Dutch-Indonesian footballer
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Gerrit Fauser
Gerrit Fauser (born 13 July 1989) is a German professional ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings ...
(born 1989), German ice hockey player
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Gerrit Ferreira
Gerrit Thomas Ferreira also known as GT Ferreira is a South African billionaire businessman, investor and banker who is one of the founders of FirstRand Limited.
Biography
Gerrit Ferreira got his MBA degree from University of Stellenbosch. In ...
(born 1948), South African businessman
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Gerrit Fischer
Gerrit Fischer (28 August 1916 – 22 November 1984) was a Dutch footballer who played for Ajax as a right winger.
Club career
Ajax
Fischer was discovered at a school football match at the age of sixteen, by Ajax coach Jack Reynolds, after ...
(1916–1984), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit Fokkema
Gerrit Fokkema Born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in 1954 and moved to Australia in 1958.
Education
Gerrit Fokkema attended the NSW public system primary and secondary schools in Queanbeyan, NSW. graduating with a Higher School Certifi ...
(born 1954), Australian photographer
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Gerrit Forbes
Gerrit Angelo Forbes (May 30, 1836 – September 22, 1906) was a justice of the Supreme Court of New York beginning in 1888. He served as District Attorney for Madison County from January 1871 to December 1874. He was a member of the Madison Cou ...
(1836–1906), American judge
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(born 1960), Belgian legal scholar
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Gerrit van Gelderen (1926–1994), Dutch-born Irish naturalist, wildlife broadcaster, film-maker, illustrator and cartoonist
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Gerrit Van Gestel (born 1958), Belgian former cyclist
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Gerrit Glas (born 1954), Dutch philosopher and psychiatrist
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Gerrit Glomser (born 1975), Austrian racing cyclist
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Gerrit David Gratama (1874–1965), Dutch artist, writer and museum director
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Gerrit Govaars (1866–1954), Dutch teacher and Salvation Army officer
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Gerrit Graham
Gerrit Graham (born November 27, 1949) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a scriptwriter and songwriter. He is best known for his appearances in multiple films by Brian De Palma as well as appearances in two ''Star Trek'' ...
(born 1949), American actor and songwriter
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Gerrit Holdijk (1944–2015), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Holtmann (born 1995), German footballer
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Gerrit van Houten (1866–1934), Dutch painter and artist
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Gerrit van Iterson (1878–1972), Dutch botanist and professor
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Gerrit de Jager (born 1954), Dutch cartoonist
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Gerrit de Jong Jr. (1892–1978), Dutch-born American art teacher, pedagogue and professor
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Gerrit P. Judd (1803–1873), American physician and missionary
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Gerrit Kastein (1910–1943), Dutch communist, neurologist and WWII resistance fighter
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Gerrit Hendrik Kersten (1882–1948), Dutch Christian minister and politician
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Gerrit Kleerekoper (1897–1943), Dutch gymnastics coach
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Gerrit Komrij
Gerrit Jan Komrij (30 March 1944 – 5 July 2012) was a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s, writing poetry that sharply contrasted with the free form poetry, free- ...
(1944–2012), Dutch poet
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Gerrit Korteweg (born 1937), Dutch swimmer
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Gerrit Kouwenaar (1923–2014), Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer
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Gerrit Krol (1934−2013), Dutch author, essayist and writer
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Gerrit Kruize (1923–2009), American field hockey player
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Ger Lagendijk (1941–2010), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit Lamberts (1776–1850), Dutch painter and museum curator
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Gerrit Y. Lansing (1783–1862), American politician
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Gerrit Lekkerkerker (1922–1999), Dutch mathematician
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Gerrit Lundens (1622–1683), Dutch painter
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Gerrit van der Meer (born 1950), Dutch television producer, film producer and unit production manager
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Gerrit Nauber (born 1992), German footballer
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Gerrit Niekoop
Arnod Gerrit Niekoop is a former Surinamese football player, referee and board member of the Surinamese Football Association, as well as board member and former chairman of the Surinamese Refereeing Commission.
During his playing career he played ...
(born 1934), Surinamese football player
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Gerrit Noordzij (1931–2022), Dutch typographer, typeface designer, and author
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Gerrit Olivier (born 19??), South African academic and diplomat
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Gerrit Oosting (1941–2012), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Opperman (born 1945), South African Army General
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Gerrit Paape (1752–1803), Dutch earthenware and stoneware painter, poet, journalist, novelist, judge, columnist and civil servant
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(1947–2005), Dutch sculptor and ceramist
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Gerrit Pels (1893–1966), Dutch astronomer
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Gerrit Plomp (born 1963), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit van Poelje (1884–1976), founder of Public Administration in the Netherlands
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Gerrit Pressel (born 1990), German footballer
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Gerrit Radstaak (1914–1996), Canadian politician
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Gerrit Reynst (1599–1658), Dutch merchant and art collector
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Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
Early life
Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner. He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at n ...
(1888–1964), Dutch architect
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Gerrit Roos (1898–1969), Dutch weightlifter
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Gerrit Rudolph (born 1988), South African-born Namibian cricketer
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Gerrit van Santen (1591/92–1656), Dutch painter and writer
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Gerrit Schimmelpenninck (1794–1863), Dutch businessman and statesman
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Gerrit Schipper (c. 1775 – c. 1832), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Schotte
Gerrit Fransisco Schotte (; born 9 September 1974) is a Curaçaoan politician, and the current leader of the Movementu Futuro Kòrsou (MFK). In the Curaçao general election of 27 August 2010, the MFK became the second-largest party with 5 seat ...
(born 1974), Curaçao optician
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Gerrit Schouten (1779–1839), Surinamese artist
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Gerrit Schulte (1916–1992), Dutch track bicycle racer
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Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797 – December 28, 1874), also spelled Gerritt Smith, was an American social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist. Married to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate for P ...
(1797–1874), American abolitionist
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Gerrit van Spaan (1654–1711), Dutch writer
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Gerrit Stoeten (born 1986), Spanish footballer
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Gerrit T. Thorn (1835–1900), American politician
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Gerrit Friedrich Otto Toennies (1898-1978), research biochemist
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Gerrit van Uylenburgh (c. 1625 – 1679), Dutch painter and art-dealer
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Gerrit van der Veen (1902–1944), Dutch sculptor and member of the Dutch Resistance in WWII
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Gerrit de Veer
Gerrit de Veer (–after 1598) was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast passage.
De Veer kept a diary of the voyages and in 1597, was the first person to observe ...
(c. 1570 – after 1598), Dutch military officer and explorer
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Gerrit Verschuur (born 1937), South African-born American scientist
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Gerrit Viljoen (1926–2009), South African politician
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Gerrit Cornelisz Vlasman (before 1600–after 1624), Dutch brewer
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Gerrit van Voorst (1910–1986), Dutch swimmer
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Gerrit de Vries (politician) (1818–1900), Dutch jurist and politician, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
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Gerrit de Vries (cyclist) (born 1967), road racing cyclist
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Gerrit van Wees (1913–1995), Dutch cyclist
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Gerrit de Wet (1616–1674), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Zalm
Gerrit Zalm (; born 6 May 1952) is a retired Dutch people, Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman.
Zalm studied Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, obtaining a Master of Economics degree ...
(born 1952), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Zegelaar (1719–1794), Dutch painter
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