Wilde

Wilde
Family name
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)
Region of origin	England
Language(s) of origin	Old English
Related names	Whilde, Wylde, Wyldes, Weald, Weild, Weld, Welds, Wyeld, Wield
Footnotes: Frequency Comparisons^[1]

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

Real people

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

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

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

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

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

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

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