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Wilde Wilde is a surname. Notable people with the name include: In arts and entertainment In film, television, and theatre * ''Wilde'' a 1997 biographical film about Oscar Wilde * Andrew Wilde (actor), English actor * Barbie Wilde (born 1960), Canadi ...

'' a 1997 biographical film about Oscar Wilde *

Andrew Wilde (actor) Andrew Wilde is an English actor, known for his role as Tillotson in the 1984 film ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. He also appeared in the Pete Townshend Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is co-foun ...

, English actor *

Barbie Wilde Barbie Wilde is a Canadian-born British actress and writer, perhaps best known for appearing as the Female Cenobite in '' Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' (1988) – the second of ten Hellraiser films based on Clive Barker's novella, ''The Hellbound ...

(born 1960), Canadian actress *

Brian Wilde Brian George Wilde (13 June 1927 – 20 March 2008) was an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, most notably Mr Barrowclough in '' Porridge'' and Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst in ''Last of the Summer Wine''. His lugubrious ...

(1927–2008), British actor *

Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde (born Kornél Lajos Weisz; October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker. Wilde's acting career began in 1935, when he made his debut on Broadway. In 1936 he began making small, uncredited app ...

(1915–1989), American actor and film director *

Hagar Wilde Hagar Wilde (July 7, 1905 – September 25, 1971) was an American playwright and screenwriter in the late 1930s till the late 1950s. She is perhaps best known for the screenplays for ''Bringing Up Baby'' (1938) and ''I Was a Male War Bride'' ...

(1905–1971), screenplay writer *

Lois Wilde Edithia Lois Wilde (August 14, 1907 – February 16, 1995) was an American actress, model, dancer, and beauty contest winner. She was most famous for appearing in B-Western and Action movies, and also known for her appearance in ''Undersea Kingdom ...

(1907–1995), American actress, model, dancer, and beauty contest winner *

Marty Wilde Marty Wilde, (born Reginald Leonard Smith; 15 April 1939) is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, scoring several 1950s hit singles including "Endless Sle ...

(born 1939), British rock and roll singer and actor; father of Kim and Ricky Wilde *

Olivia Wilde Olivia Jane Cockburn ( ; born March 10, 1984), known professionally as Olivia Wilde, is an American actress and filmmaker. She played Thirteen (House), Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series ''House (TV series), House'' ( ...

(born 1984), American actress *

Patrick Wilde Patrick Wilde is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and director for television, film and theatre. Early work Most of Wilde's early work was centred on the classics. He played Hamlet, Mark Antony for ATC and Amnon in Tirso de Molina's ...

, British television, stage and screenwriter *

Sonya Wilde Sonya Wilde (born 1937) is an American former actress, best known for her starring role in the 1960 film ''I Passed for White''. She started her career as Maria on Broadway with the original cast of ''West Side Story''. Career On Broadway, Wilde ...

(born 1939), American actress *

Ted Wilde Ted Wilde (December 16, 1889 – December 17, 1929) was a comedy writer and director during the era of silent movies, though he also directed two talkies released in 1930. He was born in New York City. His initial career was as a member of Harold ...

(1893–1929), comedy writer and director of silent movies

In music

Andrew Wilde (pianist) Andrew Wilde (born 1965) is an British classical pianist. Wilde studied at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the city where he is still based. His music teachers included Ryszard Bakst. Wilde ...

(born 1965), English classical pianist *

Danny Wilde (musician) Danny Wilde (birth name Daniel Thomas; born June 3, 1956) is an American musician. He is a founding member of The Rembrandts, with the ''Friends'' theme song " I'll Be There For You". Wilde was born in Houlton, Maine, but is known for breezy Cal ...

(born 1956), American musician and founding member of The Rembrandts *

David Wilde David Wilde (born 1935 in Manchester) is an English pianist and composer. As a boy he studied with Solomon and his pupil Franz Reizenstein, who had also studied composition with Hindemith and Vaughan Williams. A frequent soloist at the Henry W ...

(born 1935), British pianist and composer *

Jinian Wilde Jinian Wilde, sometimes Jin Wilde and Wilde!, is an English singer, songwriter, studio vocalist, vocal instructor and musician who has worked with a number of musical projects and with UK's Paris Music. He is also founder of Wilde Rose Studio usi ...

, British singer, part of Uniting Nations and other musical projects *

Kim Wilde Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith, 18 November 1960) is an English pop singer, DJ and television presenter. She first saw success in 1981 with her debut single "Kids in America", which peaked at No. 2 in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award f ...

(born 1960), British pop singer and pop culture figure *

(born 1939), British rock and roll singer and actor; father of Kim and Ricky Wilde *

Ricky Wilde Ricky may refer to: Places *Říčky (Brno-Country District), a village and municipality in the Czech Republic *Říčky v Orlických horách, a village in the north of the Czech Republic *Rickmansworth, a town in England sometimes called "Ricky" ...

(born 1961), British songwriter, musician, and record producer *

Wilbur Wilde Wilbur Wilde (born Nicholas Robert Aitken on 5 October 1955) is an Australian saxophonist, television personality and radio presenter. He is best known for his work on ''Hey Hey It's Saturday''. He rose to prominence with the bands Ol' 55 and J ...

(born 1955), Australian saxophonist

In other arts

Eduardo Wilde Eduardo Wilde (June 15, 1844 – September 5, 1913) was an Argentine physician, politician, and writer, and among the most prominent intellectual figures of the modernizing Generation of '80 in Argentina. Life and times Eduardo Faustino Wilde ...

(1844–1913), Argentine politician, writer, and physician *

Jane Wilde Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (née Elgee; 27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896) was an Irish poet under the pen name Speranza and supporter of the nationalist movement. Lady Wilde had a special interest in Irish folktales, which she help ...

(1821–1896), Irish political activist, poet, and folklorist; mother of Oscar Wilde *

John Wilde John Wilde (December 12, 1919 – March 9, 2006, pronounced "WILL-dee") was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker of fantastic imagery. Born near Milwaukee, Wilde lived most of his life in Wisconsin, save for service in the U.S. Army during Wor ...

(1919–2006), American painter associated with Magic Realism *

Liz Wilde Liz Wilde (born Anne Whittemore) is an American radio personality best known for her shock jock radio program Liz Wilde. After much success at WSHE as the evening air personality, Liz moved her show to the Northeast , taking over the night shift ...

(born 1971), American radio personality *

Nurit Wilde Nurit Wilde is an Israeli-born photographer and socialite. She was an occasional actress in the 1960s and 1970s, and was closely associated with the creative community of that era in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles. Among her photog ...

(born 1971), Israeli-born photographer, socialite, and occasional actress *

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

(1854–1900), Irish writer

In government, law, and politics

(1844–1913), Argentine politician, writer, and physician *

Fran Wilde Dame Frances Helen Wilde (née Kitching, born 11 November 1948) is a New Zealand politician, and former Wellington Labour member of parliament, Minister of Tourism and Mayor of Wellington. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Wellingt ...

(born 1948), New Zealand politician *

James Plaisted Wilde, Baron Penzance James Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, (12 July 1816 – 9 December 1899) was a noted British judge and rose breeder who was also a proponent of the Baconian theory that the works usually attributed to William Shakespeare were in fact written ...

(1816–1899), British judge, rose-breeder, and proponent of the Baconian theory of the works of Shakespeare *

John Wilde (jurist) John Wilde (or Wylde;monumental inscriptions, church of St Peter de Witton Droitwich 1590–1669) was an English lawyer and politician. As a serjeant-at-law he was referred to as Serjeant Wilde before he was appointed judge. He was a judge, chief ...

(1590–1669), English lawyer and politician *

Louis J. Wilde Louis J. Wilde (July 16, 1865 – April 18, 1924) was an American banker and Republican politician from California. Wilde was born in Iowa City, Iowa in 1865. After living in Rochester, NY, Philadelphia, and St. Paul, Minnesota, he moved t ...

(1865–1924), American banker and politician *

Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro, (7 July 178211 November 1855) was a British lawyer, judge, and politician. He was Lord Chancellor, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1850 and 1852. Background and education Born in London, Truro was t ...

(1782–1858), Lord Chancellor of England

In sport

Jimmy Wilde William James Wilde (15 May 1892 – 10 March 1969) was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923. He held the IBU world flyweight title in 1916, the EBU European flyweight title twice; firstly in 1914 and again from 1916 to 19 ...

(1892–1969), Welsh world boxing champion *

Joaquin Wilde Michael Paris (born October 5, 1986) is a American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Smackdown brand, under the ring name Joaquin Wilde. He is a member of Legado Del Fantasma. Paris began his career in 2004, ...

(born 1986), American professional wrestler * Sam Wilde, English rugby league footballer * Walter Wilde (1908–1968), Somerset cricketer

In science and technology

Henry Wilde (engineer) Henry Wilde (1833 – 28 March 1919) was a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. Wilde invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, an ...

(1833–1919), British engineer and inventor of the self-energizing dynamo *

Henry Tingle Wilde Henry Tingle Wilde, RNR (21 September 1872 – 15 April 1912) was a British naval officer who was the chief officer of the . He died in the sinking. Early life Henry Tingle Wilde was born on 21 September 1872 in Walton, north of Liverpool, En ...

(1872–1912), English chief officer on the RMS ''Titanic'' * Krzysztof Wilde (born 1966), Polish engineer, rector of Gdańsk University of Technology *

William Wilde Sir William Robert Wills Wilde FRCSI (March 1815 – 19 April 1876) was an Irish oto-ophthalmologic surgeon and the author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland. He was the fath ...

(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 Dorothy Ierne Wilde, known as Dolly Wilde (11 July 1895 – 10 April 1941), was an English socialite, made famous by her family connections and her reputation as a witty conversationalist. Her charm and humour made her a popular guest at s ...

(1895–1941), Anglo-Irish socialite *

Michael Wilde Michael Wilde, born on the Wirral, Cheshire in 1952, is a businessman who became Chairman of Southampton Football Club for two periods after the club's relegation from the Premiership, resigning on 2 April 2009, the day after the club's holding c ...

(born 1952), English businessman

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