Wilde

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

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
 * Michael Wilde (born 1952), English businessman