# Osbert

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**Osbert** is a male [Germanic given name](/source/Germanic_name) and a [surname](/source/Surname), composed of the elements *[ans/os](/source/%C3%86sir)* "god", and *[berht](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/berhtaz)* "bright".

It may refer to:

## Given name

### Pre-modern era

- Osbert or [Osberht of Northumbria](/source/Osberht_of_Northumbria) (died 867), King of Northumbria

- Osbert or [Osbeorn Bulax](/source/Osbeorn_Bulax) (died c. 1054), son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria

- [Osbert de Bayeux](/source/Osbert_de_Bayeux) ([fl.](/source/Floruit) 1121−1184), medieval English cleric and archdeacon

- [Osbert of Clare](/source/Osbert_of_Clare) (died in or after 1158), monk, elected prior of Westminster Abbey and briefly abbot, writer, hagiographer and forger of charters

- [Osbert of Dunblane](/source/Osbert_of_Dunblane) (died 1230), Bishop of Dunblane

- [Osbert de Longchamp](/source/Osbert_de_Longchamp) (c. 1155−before 1208), Anglo-Norman administrator

- [Osbert fitzHervey](/source/Osbert_fitzHervey) (died 1206), Anglo-Norman royal judge

### Modern world

- [O. G. S. Crawford](/source/O._G._S._Crawford) (1886−1957), English archaeologist and a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs in his field

- [Osbert Lancaster](/source/Osbert_Lancaster) (1908−1986), English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer

- [Osbert Mackie](/source/Osbert_Mackie) (1869−1927), English rugby union centre and Anglican priest

- [Osbert Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton](/source/Osbert_Molyneux%2C_6th_Earl_of_Sefton) (1871−1930), British courtier and Liberal politician

- [Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1876)](/source/Osbert_Mordaunt_(cricketer%2C_born_1876)) (1876−1949), English cricketer

- [Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby](/source/Osbert_Peake%2C_1st_Viscount_Ingleby) (1897−1966), British Conservative Party politician

- [Osbert Salvin](/source/Osbert_Salvin) (1835−1898), English naturalist, ornithologist and herpetologist

- [Osbert Sitwell](/source/Osbert_Sitwell) (1892−1969), English writer

## Surname

- [Alphonse Osbert](/source/Alphonse_Osbert) (1857-1939), French painter

- [William Fitz Osbert](/source/William_Fitz_Osbert) (died 1196), champion of the poor in London

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