# Maude (name)

Maude is a surname, and also a feminine given name, and may refer to:

## People

* Empress Matilda (1101–1167), also called Empress Maud or Maude, first female ruler of England, mother of Henry II

### First name

* Maude Harcheb, French singer and reality television contestant in Les Anges de la téléréalité. Known by her mononym Maude
* Maude Maggart, American singer
* Maude Nugent (1873 or 1874–1958), American singer and composer
* Maude Andrews Ohl (1862–1943), American journalist, poet, novelist
* Maude Annesley (1871–1930), English novelist
* Maude Gillette Phillips (1860–?), American author and educator
* Maude Apatow (Born 1997) American Actress

### Surname

* Angus Maude, British politician
* Aylmer Maude with Louise Maude, British Tolstoyans
* Caitlín Maude, Irish poet and traditional singer
* Charles Bulmer Maude, served as the third incumbent at St Cyprian's Church, Kimberley, South Africa (1877–1881) and was afterwards the Vicar of Leek, Staffordshire
* Cyril Maude, British actor
* Francis Maude, British politician, son of Angus Maude
* Francis Cornwallis Maude, Irish soldier
* Frederick Francis Maude, Irish soldier
* Frederick Stanley Maude, British general of World War I
* George Ashley Maude, British Army officer and equerry
* Henry Evans Maude, British administrator and anthropologist
* Honor Courtney Maude, British-Australian authority on Oceanic string figures, wife of H.E. Maude
* James Ashley Maude, Royal Navy officer
* Nesta Maude Ashworth
* Timothy Maude, U.S. Army general

### Given name

* Maude Adams (1872–1953), American actress
* Maude Allen (1879–1956), American character actress
* Maude Apatow (born 1997), American actress
* Maude Ballou (1925–2019), American civil rights activist
* Maude Barlow (born 1947), Canadian author and activist
* Maude Brown Dawson (1874–1946), wife of former Governor of West Virginia William M. O. Dawson and served as that state's First Lady, 1909-1913
* Maude Cary (1878–1967), Christian American missionary to North Africa, specifically Morocco
* Maude Duncan, an American newspaperwoman and a former mayor of Winslow, Arkansas
* Maude Eburne (1875–1960), Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles
* Maude Farris-Luse (1887–2002), American supercentenarian
* Maude Fay (1878–1964), American operatic soprano who was known for singing dramatic roles
* Maude Fealy (1883–1971), American stage and film actress
* Maude Frazier (1881–1963), American politician from Nevada
* Maude Fulton (1881–1950), Broadway stage actress who later became a Hollywood screenwriter
* Maude Garrett (born 1986), Australian broadcaster
* Maude George (1888–1963), American actress of the silent era
* Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer (1877–1959), early 20th-century painter associated with the Richmond Group of artists in Richmond, Indiana
* Maude Kegg (1904–1996), Ojibwa writer, folk artist and cultural interpreter
* Maude Kerns (1876–1965), American artist
* Maude Lloyd (1908–2004), South African ballerina and dance critic
* Maude Meagher (1895–1977), novelist, author of Fantastic Traveller
* Maude Nugent (1877–1958), American songwriter
* Maude Odell (1870–1937), American actress
* Maude Robinson (1859–1950), Quaker writer of short stories
* Maude Royden (1876–1956), British preacher and suffragist
* Maude Storey (1930–2003), British nurse, nursing administrator and writer, as well as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1988 to 1990
* Maude Turner Gordon (1868–1940), American actress
* Maude C. Waitt, American politician, former member of the Ohio Senate
* Maude Valérie White (1855–1937), French-born English composer

## Characters

* Maude Flanders, a fictional character from The Simpsons
* Maude Findlay, a fictional character on the controversial 1970s sitcom Maude
* Maude Frickett, a fictional character from the repertoire of comedian Jonathan Winters
* Maude Lebowski, a fictional character played by Julianne Moore in the 1998 film "The Big Lebowski"
* Dame Marjorie "Maude" Chardin, a fictional character in the 1971 film Harold and Maude
* Carl's "Mama" in Carl The Collector