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Region of origin
  
England

Language(s) of origin
  
Old English

Meaning
  
"high spirited, a leader"; "a person worth of high respect, dictator"; (descriptive) "person who has attained a higher form"; "from an area of educated beings: a classist" (residential)

Related names
  
Whilde, Wylde, Wyldes, Weald, Weild, Weld, Welds, Wyeld, Wield

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

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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
  • Marty Wilde (born 1939), British rock and roll singer and actor; father of Kim and Ricky Wilde
  • Nurit Wilde (born 1971), Israeli-born photographer, socialite, and occasional actress
  • Olivia Wilde (born 1984), American actress
  • Patrick Wilde, British television, stage and screen writer
  • 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 Francesca Agnes, Lady 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 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
  • Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (1821–1896), Irish political activist, poet, and folklorist; mother of Oscar Wilde
  • John Wilde (jurist) (1590–1669), English lawyer and politician
  • Louis J. Wilde (1865–1924), American banker and Republican politician
  • Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (1782–1858), Lord Chancellor of England
  • In sport

  • Jimmy Wilde (1892–1969), Welsh world boxing champion
  • Sam Wilde, English rugby league footballer
  • Walter Wilde (1908–1968), Somerset cricketer
  • In other fields

  • Dorothy Wilde (1895–1941), Anglo-Irish socialite
  • Henry Tingle Wilde (1872–1912), English chief officer on the RMS Titanic
  • Henry Wilde (engineer) (1833–1919), British engineer and inventor of the self-energizing dynamo
  • Louis J. Wilde (1865–1924), American banker and Republican politician
  • Michael Wilde (born 1952), English businessman
  • William Wilde (1815–1876), Irish eye and ear surgeon, writer on medicine, archaeology and folklore, father of Oscar Wilde
  • Winston Wilde, American sexologist
  • Fictional characters

  • Danny Wilde, from the 1971 TV series The Persuaders!
  • Frankie Wilde, fictional character in the mockumentary It's All Gone Pete Tong
  • Nick Wilde, fictional character in the 2016 Disney film Zootopia
  • References

    Wilde Wikipedia