Bertrand (name)
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Bertrand is a given name and surname. In German, the name derives from berht ("bright") and hramn ("raven") or rand ("shield").
People with the name include:
People with the name include:
Given name
- Bertrand of CommingesBertrand of CommingesBertrand of Comminges was Bishop of Comminges, in the diocese of Toulouse, France. It is after him that the commune of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, is named.-Early life:...
(1050–1126), saint and Bishop of Comminges - Bertrand BaguetteBertrand BaguetteBertrand Baguette is a Belgian racing driver from Thimister-Clermont. Since 2000, he has competed in various motorsport formulae.-Karting:...
(born 1986), Belgian racing driver - Bertrand Barère (1755–1841), French politician and journalist
- Bertrand BerryBertrand BerryBertrand Demond Berry is a retired American football defensive end who most recently played for the Arizona Cardinals.-Early years:Berry started his football career in the Humble Area Football League...
(born 1975), American football player - Bertrand Clausel (1772–1842), Marshal of France
- Bertrand CrassonBertrand CrassonBertrand Crasson is a former Belgian footballer, in the position of right/center back.He started his career at Anderlecht , moving abroad to Serie A's Napoli in 1996-98, before rejoining his previous side for five more seasons...
(born 1971), Belgian footballer - Bertrand DamaisinBertrand DamaisinBertrand Damaisin is a retired judoka from France. He claimed the bronze medal in the Men's Light-Middleweight division at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In the bronze medal match he defeated Sweden's Lars Adolfsson.-References:*...
(born 1968), French judoka - Bertrand de Bar-sur-AubeBertrand de Bar-sur-AubeBertrand de Bar-sur-Aube was an Old French poet from the Champagne region of France who wrote a number of chansons de geste. He is the author of Girard de Vienne, and it is likely that he also wrote Aymeri de Narbonne...
(late twelfth-early thirteenth century), French poet - Bertrand DelanoëBertrand DelanoëBertrand Delanoë is a French politician, and has been the mayor of Paris since 2001. He is member of the Socialist Party . Delanoë was born in Tunis, Tunisia to a French-Tunisian father and a French mother...
(born 1950), French politician - Bertrand du GuesclinBertrand du GuesclinBertrand du Guesclin , known as the Eagle of Brittany or the Black Dog of Brocéliande, was a Breton knight and French military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was Constable of France from 1370 to his death...
(c. 1320-1380), Constable of France - Bertrand GachotBertrand GachotBertrand Gachot is a French-Belgian former racing driver.-Career:Gachot is the son of a French European Commission official. He began karting at the age of 15. In 1983 he attended Winfield School, a well-known racing-driving school in France. After this, he focused on his racing career, competing...
(born 1962), Franco-Belgian racing driver - Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
(1872–1970), British philosopher - Bertrand SerletBertrand SerletBertrand Serlet, born 1960, is a French researcher. PhD in Computer Science at Université d'Orsay , he worked first at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique . He left France for USA in 1985....
, a senior vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc. - Bertrand TavernierBertrand TavernierBertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
, a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer
Fictional characters
- Bertrand Baudelaire, a fictional character in A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Bertrand Caillet, the protagonist of Guy Endore's novel The Werewolf of ParisThe Werewolf of ParisThe Werewolf of Paris is a horror novel by Guy Endore. The novel follows Bertrand Caillet, the main character, who turns into a werewolf.-Plot summary:Bertrand is born on a Christmas Eve to a woman who had been molested by a priest...
- Bertrand, a monkey in the fable of The Monkey and the CatThe Monkey and the CatThe Monkey and the Cat is best known as a fable adapted by Jean de La Fontaine that appeared in the second edition of his Fables Choisies in 1679...
Surname
- Alexandre BertrandAlexandre BertrandAlexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand was a French archaeologist who was a native of Rennes. He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand and elder brother to mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand .Bertrand studied at Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm, and after a...
(1820–1902), French archaeologist - Alexandre Jacques François BertrandAlexandre Jacques François BertrandAlexandre Jacques François Bertrand was a French physician and mesmerist who was a native of Rennes. He was the father of archaeologist Alexandre Bertrand and mathematician Joseph Bertrand...
(1795–1831), French physician - Aloysius BertrandAloysius BertrandLouis-Jacques-Napoléon “Aloysius” Bertrand was a French poet instrumental in the introduction of the prose poem into French literature and is credited with inspiring later Symbolist poets...
(1807–1841), French poet - Antoine de BertrandAntoine de BertrandAntoine de Bertrand was a French composer of the Renaissance. Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he wrote hymns and canticles, under the influence of the Jesuits...
(c. 1540 – c. 1580), French composer - Claude Bertrand (actor) (1919–1986), French actor
- Emile BertrandEmile BertrandEmile Bertrand was a French mineralogist, in honour of whom Bertrandite was named by Alexis Damour. He also gave his name to the Bertrand lens or phase telescope.-References:...
(1844–1909), French mineralogist - Gabriel BertrandGabriel BertrandGabriel Bertrand was a French biochemist and bacteriologist.Bertrand introduced into biochemistry both the term “oxidase” and the concept of trace elements....
(1867–1962), French biochemist and bacteriologist - Gustave BertrandGustave BertrandGustave Bertrand was a French military intelligence officer who made a vital contribution to the decryption, by Poland's Cipher Bureau, of German Enigma ciphers, beginning in December 1932...
(? – 1976), French intelligence officer - Guy Bertrand (disambiguation), multiple people with the name
- Henri Gratien Bertrand (1773–1844), French general (First Empire)
- Henri Bertrand (1892–1978), French entomologist
- Jacques Bertrand (1817–1884), Wallon chansonnier
- Janette Bertrand (born 1925), journalist, actor, writer, and feminist of Quebec
- Jean-Jacques BertrandJean-Jacques BertrandJean-Jacques Bertrand was the 21st Premier of Quebec, Canada, from October 2, 1968 to May 12, 1970. He led the Union Nationale party.-Member of the legislature:...
(1916–1973), Premier of Quebec (1968–1970) - Jean-Michel BertrandJean-Michel BertrandJean-Michel Bertrand was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement .- Biography :...
(born 1943), French politician - John Bertrand (Australian sailor) (born 1946), Australian yachtsman
- Joseph Louis François BertrandJoseph Louis François BertrandJoseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics....
(1822–1900), French mathematician - Julie Winnefred BertrandJulie Winnefred BertrandJulie Winnefred Bertrand was a Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest living Canadian and the oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death at age 115 years 124 days....
(1891–2007), one-time oldest recognized woman in the world - Léon BertrandLéon BertrandLéon Bertrand is a French politician. Previously a professor of physics and biology, he is Mayor of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni since 1983...
(born 1951), French politician - Louis Bertrand (disambiguation), multiple people with the name
- Marcel Alexandre BertrandMarcel Alexandre BertrandMarcel Alexandre Bertrand was a French geologist who was born in Paris. He was a student at the École Polytechnique, and beginning in 1869 he attended the Ecole des Mines de Paris. Beginning in 1877 he performed geological mapping studies of Provence, Jura Mountains and the Alps...
(1847–1907), French geologist - Marcheline BertrandMarcheline BertrandMarcia Lynne "Marcheline" Bertrand was an American actress and producer. She also co-founded the All Tribes Foundation, to culturally and economically benefit Native Americans, and the Give Love Give Life organization, to raise public awareness of women's cancers. Bertrand was the former wife of...
, (1950–2007) American actress of French-Canadian descent and mother of Angelina Jolie - Paul Bertrand (1879–1944), French botanist
- Plastic BertrandPlastic BertrandPlastic Bertrand is a Belgian musician, songwriter, producer, editor and television presenter, best known for the 1977 international hit single "Ça plane pour moi".-Early life and bands:...
(born 1958), Belgian singer - Robert BertrandRobert BertrandRobert "Bob" Bertrand is a Canadian politician.He was a federal member of Parliament for the riding of Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle. He ran and won in the 1993, 1997 and 2000 Canadian federal elections with significant majorities under the banner of the Liberal Party of Canada...
(born 1953), Canadian politician - Ryan BertrandRyan BertrandRyan Dominic Bertrand is an English footballer who plays for Chelsea. He is a left back converted from a winger.Bertrand began his career at Gillingham, before being signed by Chelsea in July 2005. After graduating from the Chelsea youth system, Bertrand was sent on to loan to various club between...
(born 1989), English footballer - Xavier BertrandXavier BertrandXavier Bertrand is a French politician and Minister of Labour, Employment and Health. He was Minister of Health for almost two years in Dominique de Villepin's government under President Jacques Chirac, then Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Solidarity in François Fillon's second government...
(born 1965), French politician - Yann Arthus-BertrandYann Arthus-BertrandYann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.- Early life :Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on March 13, 1946 in a renowned jewellers' family founded in 1803 by Claude Arthus-Bertrand and Michel-Ange Marion. His sister Catherine is one of his...
(born 1946), French photographer