Famous People with Name Gertrude

Gertrude Belle Elion            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gertrude Belle Elion: American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in New York City to immigrant parents, she graduated from Hunter College in 1937 and New York University (M.Sc.) in 1941.

Gertrude Caroline Ederle            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gertrude Caroline Ederle: was an American competitive swimmer. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.Gertrude was the daughter of a German immigrant who ran a butcher shop on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. She was known as Trudy as a youthcitation needed; her father gave her permission to bob her hair if she expressed an interest in swimming.

Gertrude Berg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gertrude Berg: was an American pioneer of classic radio, one of the first if not the first woman to create, write, produce and star in a long-running hit when she premiered the serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929), later known as The Goldbergs.Americans of all stripes identified with the situations in The Goldbergs even if they weren't urban lower-middle-class Jews trying to assimilate into the new world. The show's characters received fan mail as often as the actors who played them did, and thousands of letters poured into the show's network when Berg herself was forced to miss time on the air due to illness.

Gertrude Stein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gertrude Stein: was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914 (Gertrude and Le

Gertrude Käsebier            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gertrude Käsebier: was one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century. She was known for her evocative images of motherhood, her powerful portraits of Native Americans and her promotion of photography as a career for women.