Wilde

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Wilde is a surname, and may refer to:

In academia

• Henry Wilde (engineer) (1833–1919), British engineer and inventor of the self-energizing dynamo
• Winston Wilde, American sexologist

In the arts

• Andrew Wilde (pianist) (b. 1965), English classical pianist
• Andrew Wilde (actor), English actor
• Barbie Wilde (b. 1960), Canadian actress
• Brandon deWilde (1942–1972), American actor
• Brian Wilde (1927–2008), British actor
• Cornel Wilde (1915–1989), American actor and film director
• Danny Wilde (musician) (b. 1956), American musician and founding member of The Rembrandts
• David Wilde (b. 1935), British pianist and composer
• Hagar Wilde (1905–1971), screenplay writer
• James Plaisted Wilde, Baron Penzance (1816–1899), British judge, Shakespeare Baconian, rose-breeder and amateur gardener
• Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (1821–1896), Irish political activist, poetess, folklorist, mother of Oscar Wilde
• John Wilde (1919–2006), American painter associated with Magic Realism
• Kim Wilde (b. 1960), British pop singer, gardener, and pop culture figure
• Liz Wilde, American radio personality
• Marty Wilde (b. 1939), British rock and roll singer and actor, father of Kim and Ricky Wilde
• Nurit Wilde (b. 1971), Israeli-born photographer, socialite, and occasional actress
• Olivia Wilde (b.1984), American actress
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer
• Patrick Wilde, British television, stage and screen writer
• Ricky Wilde (b. 1961), British songwriter, musician, record producer, landscape gardener
• Ted Wilde (1893–1929), comedy writer and director of silent movies
• Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (1782–1858), Lord Chancellor of England
• Wilbur Wilde (b. 1955), Australian saxophonist
• William Wilde (1815–1876), Irish eye and ear surgeon, writer on medicine, archaeology and folklore, father of Oscar Wilde

Politicians

• Fran Wilde (b. 1948), New Zealand politician
• Louis J. Wilde (1865–1924), American banker and Republican politician

In sports

• Filip De Wilde, Belgian football goalkeeper
• Jimmy Wilde, Welsh world boxing champion
• Walter Wilde (1908–1968), Somerset cricketer

Other

• Dorothy Wilde (1895–1941), Anglo-Irish socialite
• Frankie Wilde, fictional character in the mockumentary It's All Gone Pete Tong
• Henry Tingle Wilde (1872–1912), chief officer on the RMS Titanic
• Michael Wilde, businessman

Notes

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