given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...
, usually a diminutive of Bartholomew, sometimes of Barton, Bartolomeo, etc.
Bart is a Dutch and
Ashkenazi Jewish
Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...
surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
, and derives from the name ''Bartholomäus'', a German form of the
biblical
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of ...
name ''Bartholomew'' meaning 'son of talmai' in
Aramaic
The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated i ...
.
Given names
* Bart Andrus (born 1958), American football player and coach
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Bart Arens
Bart Arens (born 2 March 1978) is a Dutch radio DJ. He currently presents 3 radio programs on 3FM
NPO 3FM is a Dutch rhythmic CHR radio station controlled by public broadcaster NPO. The vast majority of the songs played on-air are rock, ...
(born 1978), Dutch radio DJ
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Bart Baker
Bart Baker (born May 5, 1986) is an American entertainer, web-based comedian, video producer, singer, rapper, and parody artist. He is best known for making parody videos of notable songs, for which ''Billboard'' dubbed him one of the most prolif ...
(born 1986), American comedian and parody musician
* Bart Bassett (born 1961), Australian politician
* Bart Baxter, American poet
* Bart Becht (born 1956), Dutch businessman
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Bart Berman
Bart Berman ( he, ברט ברמן; born 29 December 1938) is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th-century music.
Career
Bart Berman studied piano with Jaap Spaanderman at a predecessor of ...
(born 1938), Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer
* Bart Biemans (born 1988), Belgian footballer
* Bart Bok (1906–1983), Dutch-American astronomer
* Bart Bongers (born 1946), Dutch water polo player
* Bart Bowen (born 1967), American cyclist
* Bart Bradley (1930–2006), Canadian ice hockey centre
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Bart Braverman
Bartley Louis Braverman (born February 1, 1946, Los Angeles) is an American actor, best known as "Binzer" during the entire run of the ABC prime time series ''Vega$'' (1978–1981). Braverman has also guest starred on many television shows.
Earl ...
(born 1946), American actor
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Bart Brentjens
Bart Jan-Baptist Marie Brentjens (born 10 October 1968 in Haelen) is a Dutch racing cyclist in mountain biking.
Brentjens won a gold medal for mountain biking in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first to recognize cross-country mountain biking as an ...
(born 1968), Dutch cyclist
* Bart Bryant (born 1962), American golfer
* Bart Bull, American writer, reporter, author, columnist, and critic
* Bart Bunting (born 1976), Australian blind Paralympic alpine skier
* Bart Burns (1918–2007), American actor
* Bart Buysse (born 1986), Belgian footballer
* Bart Cambré (born 1970), Belgian business theorist
* Bart Campolo, American humanist writer and former Christian pastor
* Bart Cantz (1860–1943), American baseball player
* Bart Carlier (1929–2017), Dutch footballer
* Bart Carlton, American basketball player
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Bart Claessen
Bart Claessen (; born 22 January 1980, Asten, Netherlands) is a Dutch dance DJ. He is best known for the trance songs "On the Move" and "Infected" (both 2001 and as Barthezz), which reached numbers 18 and 25 in the UK Singles Chart
The U ...
(born 1980), Dutch trance music DJ
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Bart Conner
Bart Wayne Conner (born March 28, 1958) is a retired American Olympic gymnast. As a member of the US men's gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, Conner won two gold medals. He owns and operates the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in No ...
(born 1958), American Olympic gymnast
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Bart Cummings
James Bartholomew Cummings (14 November 1927 – 30 August 2015), also known by his initials J. B. Cummings, was one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He was known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as he wo ...
(1927–2015), Australian racehorse trainer
* Bart Davis (born 1955), American lawyer and politician
* Bart De Clercq (born 1986), Belgian cyclist
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Bart Decrem
Bart Decrem is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who, most recently, headed the Mobile Games business for The Walt Disney Company between July 2010 and the Fall of 2013. He was born and raised in Belgium.
Early life
His first entrepreneurial ventu ...
, Belgian-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur
* Bart Deelkens (born 1978), Belgian footballer
* Bart De Wever (born 1970), Belgian politician
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Bart de Graaff
Bart Frederikus de Graaff (;In isolation, ''Frederikus'' is pronounced . 16 April 1967 – 25 May 2002) was an influential Dutch television presenter, comedian and creator, as well as the founder and chairman of the public broadcasting network ...
(1967–2002), Dutch television personality
* Bart de Liefde (born 1976), Dutch politician and field hockey umpire
* Bart de Ligt (1883—1938), Dutch anarcho-pacifist and antimilitarist
* Bart DeLorenzo, American theatre director and producer
* Bart Dockx (born 1981), Belgian cyclist
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Bart Dodson
Bart Dodson is an American paralympic athlete. He is from the United States competing mainly in category T51 wheelchair racing events.
Biography
Dodson has been part of five summer paralympics, winning twenty medals thirte ...
, American paralympic athlete
* Bart Dorsa (born 1967), American artist, photographer, and filmmaker
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Bart D. Ehrman
Bart Denton Ehrman (born 1955) is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, includin ...
(born 1955), American biblical scholar and atheism activist
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Bart Evans
Bart Evans is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was born on December 30, 1970, in Springfield, Missouri. He attended college at Missouri State University and was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 9th round of the 1992 MLB
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(born 1970), American baseball pitcher
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Bart Evans (polo)
Bart Evans is an American polo player.
Biography
Bart Evans was born in Mission, Kansas. He first played in Kansas City at the age of 18.
In 1972, 1975, and 1976, he won the Butler Handicap. The same year, he won the US Handicap C.V. Whitney Cup ...
, American polo player
* Bart Exposito (born 1970), American painter
* Bart Farley, American soccer goalkeeper
* Bart Fletcher, American actor
* Bart Forbes (born 1939), American painter and illustrator
* Bart Freundlich (born 1970), American film producer, director, and screenwriter
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Bart Giamatti
Angelo Bartlett Giamatti (; April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989) was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Giamatti served as Commis ...
(1938–1989), American university president and baseball executive
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Bart Goor
Bart Goor (; born 9 April 1973) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a left winger.
Club career
Geel
Goor began his professional career representing K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel in 1991 having risen through the club's youth r ...
(born 1973), Belgian soccer player
* Bart Gordon (born 1949), American lawyer and politician
* Bart Groothuis (born 1981), Dutch politician
* Bart Laeremans (born 1966), Belgian politician
* Bart Moeyaert (born 1964), Belgian writer
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Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel (born 15 October 1963 in Leuven, Belgium) is a Flemish cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group.
He was the president of the International Association for Cryptologic R ...
(born 1963), Belgian scientist
* Bart Ramakers (born 1963), Belgian artist and art curator
* Bart Schilperoord (born 1982), Dutch cricketer
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Bart Scott
Bartholomew Edward Scott (born August 18, 1980) is an American sports analyst and former football player. Scott was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. After playing college football for the Southern Illinois S ...
(born 1980), American football player
* Bart Sibrel (born 1964), American conspiracy theory film maker
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Bart Somers
Bartolomeus Jozef Lodewijk Rosalia "Bart" Somers (born 12 May 1964 in Mechelen) is a Belgian, Flemish politician. He is currently the mayor of Mechelen and President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Committee of ...
(born 1964), Belgian politician
* Bart Staes (born 1958), Belgian politician
* Bart Starr (1934–2019), American football player and coach
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Bart Stupak
Bartholomew Thomas Stupak (; born February 29, 1952) is an American politician and lobbyist. A member of the Democratic Party, Stupak served as the U.S. representative from from 1993 to 2011.
Stupak chose not to seek re-election in 2010. He dep ...
(born 1952), Polish-American politician
* Bart Taminiau (born 1947), Dutch field hockey player
* Bart Tanski (born 1990), American football player
* Bart Veldkamp (born 1967), Dutch speed skater
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Bart Voskamp
Bertus ("Bart") Voskamp (born 6 June 1968 in Wageningen, Gelderland) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1993 to 2005. He competed in five Tours de France. He also competed in the team time tri ...
(born 1968), Dutch cyclist
* Bart Wellens (born 1978), Belgian cyclo-cross cyclist
* Bart Wenrich, American television producer
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Bart Whiteman
Bart Whiteman (1948-March 14, 2006) was a Washington, D.C. theatre actor, director, and producer. He founded the Source Theatre in 1977 and served as its artistic director until 1986. He was influential in defining theatre in Washington as wel ...
(1948–2006), American theatre actor, director, producer, and critic
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Bart Willoughby
Bart Willoughby (born 12 September 1960) is an Indigenous Australian musician, noted for his pioneering fusion of reggae with Indigenous Australian musical influences, and for his contribution to growth of Indigenous music in Australia.
A Pit ...
(born 1960), Indigenous Australian musician
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Bart Wuyts
Bart Wuyts (born 15 September 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium.
Wuyts never reached a final on the ATP Tour, the closest he got was in 1992, when he reached the semi-finals of the Grand Prix Hassan II tournament in Moro ...
(born 1969), Belgian tennis player
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Bart Yasso
Bart Yasso, the "mayor of running", is Runner's World
''Runner's World'' is a globally circulated monthly magazine for runners of all skills sets, published by Hearst in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Before its acquisition by Hear ...
, American runner and biathlete
* Bart Yates, American novelist
* Bart Zeller (born 1941), American baseball player
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Bart Zoet
Hubertus Balthazar "Bart" Zoet (20 October 1942 – 13 May 1992) was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1961 and 1969. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Gerben Ka ...
(1942–1992), Dutch cyclist
Fictional characters
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Bart Allen
Bartholomew Henry "Bart" Allen II is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. A speedster, he first appeared under the alias Impulse and later became the second Kid Flash and the fourth Flash. Created by Mark Waid ...
, a DC Comics superhero called Flash, Kid Flash and Impulse
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Bart Hamilton
The Green Goblin is the alias of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first and best-known incarnation Norman Osborn, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, is generally regarded as one of the a ...
, the third Green Goblin, a ''Spider-Man'' villain
* Bart Hawk, a military pilot who went by the codename Blackhawk in the 1940s Quality Comics incarnation
* Bart McQueen, in the soap opera ''Hollyoaks''
* Bart Rathbone, a salesman in the radio drama and comedy series '' Adventures in Odyssey''
* Bart Simpson, in the television series ''The Simpsons''
Animals
* Bart the Bear (1977–2000), an Alaskan Kodiak bear who appeared in many Hollywood films
* Bart the Bear 2 (born 2000), an Alaskan brown bear who appears in films and television
Surname
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Andrzej Bart
Andrzej Bart (born 1951 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish novelist, screenwriter and film director.
He is called the Polish Thomas PynchonCécile Bart (born 1958), French painter
* François Cornil Bart (1677–1755), French vice admiral
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Frank J. Bart
Frank J. Bart (April 15, 1883 – March 31, 1961) was a Medal of Honor recipient for World War I.
Born in New York City, he joined the United States Army in Newark, New Jersey, during World War I, as a Private (rank), private in Company C, 9th Inf ...
(1883–1961), United States Army private awarded the Medal of Honor
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Harm Bart
Harm Bart (born 5 August 1942) is a Dutch mathematician, economist, and Professor of Mathematics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam,Harriet Bart (born 1941), American artist
* Jean Bart (1650–1702), French naval commander and privateer
* Joey Bart (born 1996), American baseball player
* Lionel Bart (1930–1999), composer of musicals
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Pauline Bart
Pauline Bernice Bart (née Lackow; February 18, 1930October 8, 2021) was an American sociologist who studied gender inequality, violence against women, and women's development.
Early life
Pauline Bernice Lackow was born on February 18, 1930 ...
(1930–2021), American sociologist
* Peter Bart (born 1932), American journalist, former editor-in-chief of ''Variety'' magazine
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Philippe-François Bart
Philippe-François Bart (28 February 1706 – 12 March 1784) Grandson of Admiral Jean Bart, was a French naval officer who was Governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) from 1757 to 1761 during the Seven Years' War.
Early years (1706–1722)
Philipp ...
(1706–1784), Governor of Saint-Domingue
* Roger Bart (born 1962), American actor