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Hertha Töpper (German: ['hɛrta 'tœpər]; 1924 – 2020) was an Austrian contralto in opera and concert, and an academic voice teacher. A member of the Bavarian State Opera, she appeared in leading roles at major international opera houses and festivals.
Hertha Kluge-Pott is a German-born Australian printmaker.
Hertha Rosmini was an Austrian alpine skier. She competed in the women's combined event at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
The name was borne by Phoebe Sarah "Hertha" Marks Ayrton (1854-1923), an English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor. As a teenager, the agnostic Ayrton adopted the name Hertha after the eponymous heroine of a poem by Algernon Swinburne that criticized organized religion. The Ayrton Paterae, a geographical feature on the planet Venus, is named for her.It was also born by Hertha Sponer (1895-1968), a German physicist and chemist who was the first woman on the physics faculty of Dukes University.

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