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 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 Findlay, a fictional character on the controversial 1970s sitcom Maude
 * Maude Flanders, a fictional character from The Simpsons
 * 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