Hildegard

Hildegard is a female name derived from the Old High German hild ('war' or 'battle') and gard ('enclosure' or 'yard'), and means 'battle enclosure'. Variant spellings include: Hildegarde; the Polish, Portuguese, Slovene and Spanish Hildegarda; the Italian Ildegarda; the Hungarian Hildegárd; and the ancient German Hildegardis.

Notable people with the name

 * Hilda (Hildegarde) Vīka (1897–1963), Latvian artist and writer
 * Hildegard (music duo), 2021 electronic music project by Canadian musicians Helena Deland and Ouri
 * Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), Christian saint
 * Hildegard of Fraumünster (828–856 or 859), daughter of Louis the German and first abbess of Fraumünster
 * Hildegard, second wife of Charlemagne
 * Hildegard, Countess of Auvergne or Matilda (c. 802–841), daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye
 * Hildegard Behrens (1937–2009), German opera singer
 * Hildegard Falck (born 1949), German middle distance runner and Olympic medalist
 * Hildegard Goebbels (1934–1945), daughter of Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels and Magda Goebbels.
 * Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (1921–2016), German politician
 * Hildegarde Howard (1901–1998), American paleornithologist
 * Hildegarde Kneeland (1889–1994), American economist and statistician
 * Hildegard Knef (1925–2002), German actress, singer and writer
 * Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl (1908–1968), German-born American physicist
 * Hildegard Körner (born 1959), East German middle distance runner and Olympian
 * Hildegard Puwak (1949–2018), Romanian politician
 * Hildegard Werner, Swedish musician
 * Hildegarde (1906–2005), American cabaret singer
 * Hildegarde Flanner (1899–1987), American poet and activist
 * Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge (1908–1981), poet, playwright and novelist
 * Hildegarde Naughton, Irish politician and mayor of Galway
 * Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, activist for socialism and sexual revolution

Notable fictional characters

 * Hildegarde Antoinette "Hilda" Spellman, a character in the comic book Sabrina the Teenage Witch and subsequent television series.
 * Hildegarde (Marvel Comics), a Valkyrie
 * Hildegarde Withers, in novels and films
 * Hildegard von Krone, from the Soul series of fighting games
 * Hildegard von Mariendorf, from Legend of the Galactic Heroes
 * Hildegarde T., from the anime and manga series Beelzebub by Ryūhei Tamura
 * Hildegarde, in the Johann Strauss operetta Simplicius
 * Hildegard 'Hildy' Johnson, from 1940 American comedy film His Girl Friday
 * Princess Hildegard, from the Disney animated series Sofia the First
 * Hildegarde, from the game Catan (web/app version)
 * Hildegard; 'Devout Oracle' from the mobile game Dragalia Lost
 * Hildegarde (Hilda) from the manga and anime series Beelzebub Beelzebub (manga)
 * Hildegard Hamhocker, a character in Tumbleweeds (comic strip)
 * Hildegard "Hildy" Gloom, witch and main antagonist of The 7D