Bert or BERT may refer to:

Persons, characters, or animals known as Bert

Bert (name) Bert is a hypocoristic form of a number of various Germanic male given names, such as Robert, Albert, Elbert, Herbert, Hilbert, Hubert, Gilbert, Wilbert, Filbert, Norbert, Osbert, Bertram, Berthold, Bertrand, Umberto, Humbert, Cuthbert, Delber ...

, commonly an abbreviated forename and sometimes a surname *Bert, a character in the poem "Bert the Wombat" by The Wiggles; from their 1992 album Here Comes a Song *

Bert (Sesame Street) Bert is a yellow Muppet character on the long running PBS and HBO children's television show ''Sesame Street''. Bert was originally performed by Frank Oz. Since 1999, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary performer. ...

, fictional character on the TV series ''Sesame Street'' *

Bert (horse) Bert (1934—1956) was one of the most influential sires in the early years of the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA).Simmons ''Legends'' p. 115-116 He was posthumously inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. Background and early life Foa ...

, foaled 1934 *

Bert (Mary Poppins) ''Mary Poppins'' is a series of eight children's books written by Australian-British writer P. L. Travers and published over the period 1934 to 1988. Mary Shepard was the illustrator throughout the series. The books centre on the magical ...

, a Cockney chimney sweep in the book series & Disney film ''Mary Poppins'' * Iron Bert (one half of the two yellow diesels 'Arry and Bert), also in ''Thomas and Friends''

Places

Berd Berd ( hy, Բերդ) is a town and urban municipal community in the Tavush Province of Armenia. The town is located to the west of the Tavush river, from Yerevan, surrounded by low mountains. Near the city are the ruins of the Tavush fortress ( ...

, Armenia, also known as Bert *

Bert, Allier Bert () is a commune in the Allier department in central France. Population Administration * 2008–2020: Jacques Caillault * 2020–2026: Michel Vivier See also *Communes of the Allier department The following is a list of the 317 ...

, a commune in the French of Allier * Bert, West Virginia

Electronics & computing

* Bit error rate test, a testing method for digital communication circuits *

Bit error rate tester In digital transmission, the number of bit errors is the number of received bits of a data stream over a communication channel that have been altered due to noise, interference, distortion or bit synchronization errors. The bit error rate ( ...

, a test equipment used for testing the bit error rate of digital communication circuits * HP Bert, a CPU in certain Hewlett-Packard programmable calculators *

BERT (language model) Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) is a transformer-based machine learning technique for natural language processing (NLP) pre-training developed by Google. BERT was created and published in 2018 by Jacob Devlin and his ...

(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), a natural language processing technique

Entertainment & sports

*Bert, a type of shot in

Pickleball Pickleball is an indoor or outdoor racket/paddle sport where two players (singles), or four players (doubles), hit a perforated hollow polymer ball over a net using solid-faced paddles. Opponents on either side of the net hit the ball back and ...

Bert Diaries The Bert Diaries are a series of novels written in the form of a diary, by Swedish writers Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson. The main character is a Swedish teenager called Bert Ljung, living in Öreskoga, a fictional town in Sweden, in the ...

, Swedish children's novels, TV series and film *

Bert (TV series) ''Bert'' is a Swedish television series with 12 episodes, based on the ''Bert Diaries'' by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson, and originally airing over SVT each Saturday evening during the period of 1 October-17 December 1994. It was directed b ...

, a Swedish TV series based on Bert Diaries *

Q*bert ''Q*bert'' (also known as ''Qbert'') is an arcade video game developed and published for the North American market by Gottlieb in 1982. It is a Video game graphics, 2D action game with Puzzle video game, puzzle elements that uses Isometric video ...

, a game whose Macintosh versions were known as ''Bert''