Birgit is a female given name, a short form of Birgitta and ultimately a
Germanic
Germanic may refer to:
* Germanic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group identified by their use of the Germanic languages
** List of ancient Germanic peoples and tribes
* Germanic languages
:* Proto-Germanic language, a reconstructed proto-language o ...
form of the
Gaelic
Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...
name
Bridget
Bridget is an Irish female name derived from the Gaelic noun ''brígh'', meaning "power, strength, vigor, virtue". An alternate meaning of the name is "exalted one". Its popularity, especially in Ireland, is largely related to the popularity of ...
. Notable people with the name include:
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Birgit Brüel
Birgit Brüel (born 6 October 1927 – died 23 February 1996) was a Danish singer and actress who participated in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest.
Brüel's professional career began in 1950 when she joined the Max Brüel Quartet as a jazz sing ...
, Danish singer and actress
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Birgit Collin-Langen
Birgit Collin-Langen (born 4 September 1956) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2012 until 2019. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
Career
Betwee ...
, German politician
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Birgit Cunningham
Birgit Cunningham (born 6 January 1963) is a British American events organiser, activist, and campaigner for the rights of single mothers.
Early life
Cunningham was born in San Francisco, the daughter of a treasurer of the Bank of America and a ...
, Anglo-American activist
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Birgit Doll
Birgit Doll (9 March 1956 – 26 October 2015) was an Austrian actress of stage, screen and television and theatre director. She made her professional theatre debut at the age of 20 and won the Kainz Medal in 1992 for her performance of '' Libussa ...
, Austrian actress and theatre director
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Birgit Finnilä
Birgit Finnilä (born 20 January 1931) is a Swedish contralto and opera singer.
Finnilä was born in Falkenberg, Sweden and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She made her operatic debut in Gothenburg in 1967. Though principally ...
, Swedish opera singer
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Birgit Fischer
Birgit Fischer (; born 25 February 1962) is a German former kayaker, who has won eight gold medals over six different Olympic Games, a record she shares with Aladár Gerevich and Isabell Werth, spanning seven Olympiads: twice representing East ...
, German canoer
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Birgit Friedmann
Birgit Friedmann (born 8 April 1960) is a German former middle- and long-distance runner who competed in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres for West Germany.
Born in Königstein im Taunus, she made her first major appearance for West G ...
(born 1960), German runner and 1980 world champion
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Birgit Hogefeld
Birgit Hogefeld (born 27 July 1956) is a former member of the West German Red Army Faction (RAF).
Early life
Born in 1956 in Wiesbaden, Hogefeld joined the RAF in 1984, once she turned clandestine, long after its founding members Andreas Baade ...
, German RAF terrorist member
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Birgit Kähler
Birgit Kähler (born 14 August 1970 in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a retired female high jumper from Germany. Her personal best jump was 1.94 metres, achieved in August 1991 in Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on th ...
, German high jumper
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Birgit Meyer
Birgit Meyer (born 21 March 1960) is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University.
Career
Meyer was born on 21 March 1960 in Emden, Germany. She studied comparative religion, pedagogy, and cultural anthropology at the University ...
(born 1960), Dutch religious studies scholar
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Birgit Michels
Birgit Michels ( Overzier; born 28 September 1984) is a German badminton player. She competed for Germany at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the mixed doubles. In 2008, she competed with Kristof Hopp, and in 2012 she competed with Michae ...
, German badminton player
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Birgit Minichmayr
Birgit Minichmayr (born 3 April 1977) is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin ...
, Austrian actress
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Birgit Nilsson
Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide répertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner a ...
, Swedish soprano
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Birgit Õigemeel
Birgit Sarrap (née Õigemeel, born 24 September 1988), also known as simply Birgit, is an Estonian singer. Õigemeel rose to prominence in 2007 after winning the first season of '' Eesti otsib superstaari'', the Estonian version of '' Idol''. ...
, Estonian singer
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Birgit Prinz
Birgit Prinz (born 25 October 1977) is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team, Prinz played for 1. FFC Frankfurt in the Frauen-B ...
, German football (soccer) player
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Birgit Püve
Birgit Püve (born November 7, 1978) is an Estonian photographer. She lives and works in Tallinn.
Life and work
Birgit Püve started out as a writing journalist for the Estonian weekly newspaper '' Eesti Ekspress''. She quickly became a successf ...
, Estonian photographer
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Birgit Rausing
Birgit Rausing (born 26 October 1924) is a Swedish art historian, philanthropist, a former billionaire heiress and the widow of Gad Rausing (1922–2000).
Biography
She is the daughter of Swedish landscape painter Henry Mayne (1891–1975). In 1 ...
, Swedish art historian
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Birgit Ridderstedt
Birgit Ridderstedt (November 26, 1914 – September 16, 1985) was a Swedish-American folk singer who appeared at festivals and on television in the 1950s and early 1960s with material she produced herself.
Background
Born in Ludvika, Sweden ...
, Swedish singer
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Birgit Schrowange
Birgit Schrowange (born Schrowangen; 7 April 1958 in Nehden, North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shorten ...
, German television presenter
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Birgit Schuurman
Birgit Schuurman (born 1 July 1977, in Utrecht) is a Dutch singer and actress.
Biography
Schuurman was born in Utrecht and raised in Bunnik as the daughter of a Dutch father and a Surinamese mother; she's the younger sister of Katja Schuurman. ...
, Dutch rock singer
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Birgit Thumm
Birgit Thumm (born July 3, 1980, in Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg) is a volleyball player from Germany.
She made her debut for the German Women's National Team in 1999. She played at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship ...
, German volleyball player
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Birgit Vogel-Heuser
Birgit Vogel-Heuser (born 1961) is a German computer scientist and professor at The Technical University of Munich (TUM). She has been cited over 5,000 times. Vogel-Heuser's research focuses on systems and software engineering
Software engineerin ...
(born 1961), German computer scientist
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Birgit Zotz
Birgit Zotz (born 7 August 1979) is an Austrian writer, cultural anthropologist and an expert on the subject of hospitality management studies.
Life
Born in Waidhofen an der Thaya, Lower Austria, Zotz grew up in the Waldviertel and in Vi ...
, Austrian writer and anthropologist
See also
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960 Birgit
960 Birgit ( ''prov. designation'': ''or'' ) is a background asteroid, approximately in diameter, located in the Florian region of the inner asteroid belt. It was discovered on 1 October 1921, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg ...
, a minor planet orbiting our sun
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Birgit language
Birgit (also known as Bergit, Birgid, Berguid) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southeastern Chad. Speakers are found in Moubi Goz Canton, Kouka Margni Sub-prefecture and in Moubi Zarga Canton, Mangalmé Sub-prefecture.Oxfam
Oxfam is a ...
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Brigid (disambiguation) Brigid is a feminine given name, of which Bridget is a later variation.
Mythology
*Brigid, goddess of pre-Christian Ireland
People
*Brigid of Kildare (c. 451 – 525), Irish Christian Saint
* Brigid Arthur (born 1934), Australian nun and litigati ...
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