# Wilde

Wilde is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

## In arts and entertainment
### In film, television, and theatre

* Andrew Wilde (actor), English actor
* Barbie Wilde (born 1960), Canadian actress
* Brian Wilde (1927–2008), British actor
* Cornel Wilde (1915–1989), American actor and film director
* Hagar Wilde (1905–1971), screenplay writer
* Lois Wilde (1907–1995), American actress, model, dancer, and beauty contest winner
* Marty Wilde (born 1939), British rock and roll singer and actor; father of Kim and Ricky Wilde
* Olivia Wilde (born 1984), American actress
* Patrick Wilde, British television, stage and screenwriter
* Sonya Wilde (born 1937), American actress
* Ted Wilde (1893–1929), comedy writer and director of silent movies

### In music

* Andrew Wilde (pianist) (born 1965), English classical pianist
* Danny Wilde (musician) (born 1956), American musician and founding member of The Rembrandts
* David Wilde (born 1935), British pianist and composer
* Jinian Wilde, British singer, part of Uniting Nations and other musical projects
* Kim Wilde (born 1960), British pop singer and pop culture figure
* Marty Wilde (born 1939), British rock and roll singer and actor; father of Kim and Ricky Wilde
* Ricky Wilde (born 1961), British songwriter, musician, and record producer
* Wilbur Wilde (born 1955), Australian saxophonist

### In other arts

* Eduardo Wilde (1844–1913), Argentine politician, writer, and physician
* Jane Wilde (1821–1896), Irish political activist, poet, and folklorist; mother of Oscar Wilde
* John Wilde (1919–2006), American painter associated with Magic Realism
* Liz Wilde (born 1971), American radio personality
* Nurit Wilde (born 1971), Israeli-born photographer, socialite, and occasional actress
* Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish poet and playwright
* Stuart Wilde (1946–2013), British writer

## In government, law, and politics

* Eduardo Wilde (1844–1913), Argentine politician, writer, and physician
* Fran Wilde (born 1948), New Zealand politician
* James Plaisted Wilde, Baron Penzance (1816–1899), British judge, rose-breeder, and proponent of the Baconian theory of the works of Shakespeare
* John Wilde (jurist) (1590–1669), English lawyer and politician
* Louis J. Wilde (1865–1924), American banker and politician
* Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (1782–1858), Lord Chancellor of England

## In sport

* Federico Wilde (born 1909), Argentine footballer
* Jimmy Wilde (1892–1969), Welsh world boxing champion
* Joaquin Wilde (born 1986), American professional wrestler
* Sam Wilde, English rugby league footballer
* Walter Wilde (1908–1968), Somerset cricketer

## In science and technology

* Henry Wilde (engineer) (1833–1919), British engineer and inventor of the self-energizing dynamo
* Henry Tingle Wilde (1872–1912), English chief officer on the RMS Titanic
* Krzysztof Wilde (born 1966), Polish engineer, rector of Gdańsk University of Technology
* William Wilde (1815–1876), Irish eye and ear surgeon, writer on medicine, archaeology and folklore, father of Oscar Wilde
* Winston Wilde, American sexologist

## In other fields

* Dorothy Wilde (1895–1941), Anglo-Irish socialite
* Maud Wilde (1880-1965), physician, organizational founder, and author
* Michael Wilde (born 1952), English businessman