Gerda is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Gerda Ahlm
Gerda Maria Ahlm (May 24, 1869 – 1956) was a Swedish-born painter and art conservator.
Biography
Gerda Maria Ahlm was born in Västerås, Sweden. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Art in Stockholm (1889-91) and later studied etching ...
(1869–1956), Swedish-born American painter and art conservator
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Gerda Alexander (1908–1994), Danish teacher and therapist
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Gerda Antti (born 1929), Swedish writer
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Gerda Becker, Dutch table tennis player
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Gerda Bengtsson (1900–1995), Danish textile artist
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Gerda Blees (born 1985), Dutch writer
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Gerda Blumenthal (1923–2004), German-American literary scholar
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Gerda Boyesen (1922–2005), Norwegian psychotherapist
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Gerda Bredgaard (1908–1996), Danish swimmer
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Gerda Bryłka (born 1941), Polish gymnast
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Gerda Bülow, (1904–1990), Danish violinist
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Gerda Charles
Gerda Charles was the pseudonym of Edna Lipson (10 March 1915 – 4 November 1996), an award-winning Anglo-Jewish novelist and author. She was born in Liverpool and was daughter of Harold Lipson and Gertrude Caplan who had married in Ormskirk in ...
, pseudonym of the British novelist Edna Lipson (1915–1996)
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Gerda Christian (1913–1997), German private secretary of Adolf Hitler
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Gerda Christophersen (1870–1947), Danish actress
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Gerda Claeskens
Gerda Claeskens is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, associated with the KU Research Centre for Operations Research and Business Statistics (ORSTAT).
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(fl. 2000s), Belgian statistician
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Gerda Daumerlang (1920–2006), German diver
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Gerda Dendooven (born 1962), Belgian illustrator
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Gerda Fiil
Gerda Søvang Fiil (30 January 1927 – 26 June 1994) was a convicted member of the Danish resistance, whose father and brother were executed by the German occupying power.
Biography
During the later stage of the occupation the Fiil family an ...
(1927–1994), Danish resistance fighter
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Gerda Frömel (1931–1975), Czechoslovak-born Austrian sculptor
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Gerda Gantz (born 1915, date of death unknown), Romanian fencer
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Gerda Gattel (1908–1993), American comic book author
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Gerda Geertens (born 1955), Dutch composer
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Gerda Gilboe (1914–2009), Danish actress and singer
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Gerda Grepp
Gerda Johanne Helland Grepp Accessed through thgrave-site registryof the Genealogy Society of Norway (DIS), select "Id" from the drop-down menu labelled "Find" and enter "675648". (26 May 1907 – 29 August 1940) was a Norwegian translator, jour ...
(1907–1940), Norwegian writer and socialist
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Gerda Hasselfeldt (born 1950), Bavarian politician
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Gerda Hellberg
Gerda Hellberg née Lundberg (1870–1937) was a prominent Swedish women's rights activist, contributing to Sweden's fight for women's suffrage. While studying in Uppsala, together with her female student friends, she founded Sweden's first studen ...
(1870–1937), Swedish women's rights activist
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Gerda Henning Gerda Henning née Heydorn (March 2, 1891 – June 26, 1951) was a Danish weaver, textile designer and educator.
Biography
Born Gerda Heydorn in Fredriksberg, Denmark, she was the daughter of a grocer. From 1910 to 1917 she worked as a china pain ...
(1891–1951), Danish textile designer
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Gerda Herrmann
Gerda Herrmann (June 30, 1931 The article mentions that the premiere of the film "The Songwriter of Botnang" on June 29, 2019 was held the day before Gerda Herrmann's 88th birthday in Cannstatt – † April 15, 2021) was a German composer and po ...
(1931–2021), German composer and poet
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Gerda Hnatyshyn
Karen Gerda Hnatyshyn ( ; ; August 14, 1935 – July 14, 2023) was a viceregal consort of Canada, who held the role from 1990 to 1995 during her husband Ray Hnatyshyn's term as Governor General of Canada. From 2002 to 2023, she served as Preside ...
(born 1935), Canadian viceregal consort
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Gerda Hofstätter
Gerda Hofstätter Gergerson (born 9 February 1971), nicknamed "G-Force", is an Austrian professional pool player. Hofstätter won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 1995. She is a winner at the European Pool Championship on nine occasion ...
(born 1971), Austrian billiards player
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Gerda Höglund
Gerda Höglund (12 March 1878 – 25 March 1973) was a Swedish painter. After attending Kerstin Cardon's school in Stockholm, she moved to Paris where she continued her education at the Académie Julian. In addition to painting landscapes, still ...
(1878–1973), Swedish painter
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Gerda Höjer
Gerda Höjer (23 July 1893 - 20 June 1974), was a Swedish nurse and politician for the Liberal People's Party.
Gerda Höjer was a nurse and the president of the Swedish Association of Nurses from 1945 to 1960.
She was a member of the second c ...
(1893–1974), Swedish nurse, recipient of the
Florence Nightingale Medal
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and President of the
International Council of Nurses
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Gerda Holmes (1891–1943), Danish actress
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Gerda Johansson (1891–1965), Swedish diver
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Gerda Johner (born 1944), Swiss figure skater
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Gerda-Maria Jürgens (1917–1998), German actress
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Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (1923–2015), Dutch sprinter and hurdler
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Gerda Karstens (1903–1988), Danish ballet dancer
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Gerda Kieninger (1951–2020), German politician
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Gerda Kordemets (born 1960), Estonian theatre and film director, screenwriter, theatre critic, and journalist
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Gerda Kraan (born 1933), Dutch middle-distance runner
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Gerda Krüger-Nieland (1910–2000), German lawyer and senate president
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Gerda Krūmiņa (born 1984), Latvian biathlete
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Gerda Kupferschmied (born 1942), German athlete
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Gerda Lammers (1915–1993), German soprano
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Gerda Laski (1893–1928), Austrian/German physicist
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Gerda Lassooij (born 1952), Dutch swimmer
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Gerda Lerner
Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein; April 30, 1920 – January 2, 2013) was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenpl ...
(1920–2013), Austrian-born American historian and author
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Gerda Lundequist
Gerda Carola Cecilia Lundequist (; 14 February 1871 – 23 October 1959) was a Swedish stage actress, an Ibsen and Strindberg-thespian that in her time was known throughout Scandinavia as "The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt".
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Lundequist was ...
(1871–1959), Swedish stage actress
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Gerda Madsen (1902–1986), Danish film actress
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Gerda Marcus (1880–1952), Swedish journalist and philanthropist
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Gerda Martín (born 1927), Chilean athlete (javelin)
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Gerda Maurus
Gerda Maurus (25 August 1903 – 31 July 1968) was an Austrian actress.
She was of Croatian people, Croatian descent and initially made her name on stage in Vienna. While performing in the theatre, she was discovered by the director Fritz Lang du ...
(1903–1968), Austrian actress
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Gerda Mayer (1927–2021), Czechoslovak-born English poet
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Gerda Müller (1894–1951), German actress
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Gerda Munsinger (1929–1998), East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy
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Gerda Nettesheim (1947–2011), German sound artist
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Gerda Neumann (1915–1947), Danish film actress
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Gerda Nicolson (1937–1992), Australian actress
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Gerda Olsen (born 1932), Danish swimmer
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Gerda Palm (1871–1949), Swedish painter
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Gerda Pak (born 1993), Estonian swimmer
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Gerda Paumgarten (1907–2000), Austrian alpine skier
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Gerda Planting-Gyllenbåga (1878–1950), Swedish suffragist and social welfare expert
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Gerda Philipsborn (1895–1943), German educator and social reformer
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Gerda Ranz (born 1944), German runner
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Gerda Rieser-Cegnar (fl. 1960s), Austrian luger
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Gerda Ring (1891–1999), Norwegian-born stage actress and producer
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Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius (1864–1939), Swedish painter
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Gerda Roux (born 1973), South African archer
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Gerda Rubinstein (1931–2022), Dutch composer
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Gerda Schriever (1928–2014), German contalto
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Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (1920–2021), German painter
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Gerda Sierens (born 1961), Belgian racing cyclist
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Gerda Sprinchorn (1871–1951), Swedish sculptor and ceramist
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Gerda Staniek (1925–1985), Austrian athlete (javelin)
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Gerda Steinhoff
Gerda Steinhoff (29 January 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
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Steinhoff was born in Danzig-Langfuhr. As a teenager, she worked as house ...
(1922–1946), Polish Nazi SS concentration camp overseer, hung for war crimes
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Gerda Stevenson
Gerda Stevenson (born April 10, 1956) is a Scottish actress, director and writer. Known for her wide-ranging works in media, her notable stage roles include the title character in Edwin Morgan's English translation of Racine's ''Phèdre'', an ...
(born 1956), Scottish actress, director and writer
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Gerda Steyn (born 1990), South African marathon athlete
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Gerda Sutton (1923–2005), British-French painter
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Gerda Taro
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German War photography, war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first female Photojournalism, photojournalist to hav ...
(1910–1937), German war photographer
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Gerda Maria Terno (1909–1995), German actress
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Gerda Tirén
Gerda Maria Tirén, née Rydberg (11 January 1858, Stockholm - 9 October 1928, Länna Parish, Uppland) was a Swedish painter and illustrator. She did landscapes from France and Sweden, children's portraits, and Genre art, genre scenes. Her illust ...
(1858–1928), Swedish artist
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Gerda Uhlemann (born 1945), German athlete
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Gerda Verburg
Gerritje "Gerda" Verburg (born 19 August 1957) is a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and trade union leader
From 2011 until 2016, Verburg served as Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Nethe ...
(born 1957), Dutch diplomat, politician and trade union leader
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Gerda Voitechovskaja (born 1991), Lithuanian badminton player
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Gerda de Vries (fl. 2000s), Canadian mathematician
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Gerda Wallander (1860–1926), Swedish painter
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Gerda Wegener (1886–1940), Danish fine-artist, illustrator and painter
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Gerda Weissensteiner (born 1969), Italian luger and bobsleigh pilot
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Gerda Weissmann Klein (1924–2022), Polish-born American writer and human rights activist
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Gerda Weltz (born 1951), Danish darts player
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Gerda Wrede (1896–1967), Finnish actor and speech therapist
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Gerda von Zobeltitz (1891–1963), early German transgender woman and dressmaker
Fictional characters
* Gerda, a character of Hans Christian Andersen's ''
The Snow Queen
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'' and its adaptations
* Gerda, a character on the children's television show ''
Sesamstraat
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*Gerda Christow, a character in Agatha Christie's novel ''
The Hollow
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*Gerda Gustav, a character on the children's TV series ''
Hilda''
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