Wilde
Encyclopedia
In academia
- Henry Wilde (engineer)Henry Wilde (engineer)Henry Wilde was a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, an invention for which Werner von Siemens is more usually credited and, in fact,...
(1833–1919), British engineer and inventor of the self-energizing dynamo - Winston WildeWinston WildeWinston Wilde, MA, DHS, is a sexologist, psychotherapist, and author living in Los Angeles, California. He is the surviving partner of gay writer Paul Monette...
, American sexologist
In the arts
- Andrew Wilde (pianist)Andrew Wilde (pianist)Andrew Wilde is an English 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. Wilde plays often as a recitalist, and has a particular affinity for the music of Chopin.However, he also has a wide...
(b. 1965), English classical pianist - Andrew Wilde (actor)Andrew Wilde (actor)Andrew Wilde is an English actor, perhaps best known for his work in the 1984 film Nineteen Eighty-Four. He also appeared in the Pete Townshend short film, White City: A Novel.- External links :...
, English actor - Barbie WildeBarbie WildeBarbie Wilde is a Canadian actress and writer, perhaps best known for appearing as the Female Cenobite in Hellbound: Hellraiser II - the second of eight Hellraiser films based on Clive Barker's novella, The Hellbound Heart...
(b. 1960), Canadian actress - Brandon De WildeBrandon De WildeAndre Brandon deWilde was an American theatre and film actor. He was born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn. Debuting on Broadway at the age of 7, De Wilde became a national phenomenon by the time he completed his 492 performances for The Member of the Wedding and was considered a child...
(1942–1972), American actor - Brian WildeBrian WildeBrian George Wilde was an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, including Mr Barrowclough in Porridge and "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine...
(1927–2008), British actor - Cornel WildeCornel WildeCornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...
(1915–1989), American actor and film director - Danny Wilde (musician)Danny Wilde (musician)Danny Wilde is an American musician. He is a founding member of The Rembrandts.Wilde is known for breezy California power pop through his records released in the 1980s and 90s. Catchy hooks and power chords were his hallmark...
(b. 1956), American musician and founding member of The Rembrandts - David WildeDavid WildeDavid Wilde 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...
(b. 1935), British pianist and composer - Hagar WildeHagar WildeHagar Wilde was a writer for Hollywood films and television shows in the late thirties till the late fifties...
(1905–1971), screenplay writer - James Plaisted Wilde, Baron PenzanceJames Plaisted Wilde, Baron PenzanceJames Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance 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 authored by Francis Bacon....
(1816–1899), British judge, Shakespeare Baconian, rose-breeder and amateur gardener - Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady WildeJane WildeJane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde was an Irish poet under the pen name "Speranza" and supporter of the nationalist movement; had a special interest on Irish Fairy Tales, which she helped to gather...
(1821–1896), Irish political activist, poetess, folklorist, mother of Oscar Wilde - John WildeJohn WildeJohn Wilde 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 World War II. He received bachelor and master degrees in art from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught...
(1919–2006), American painter associated with Magic Realism - Kim WildeKim WildeKim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...
(b. 1960), British pop singer, gardener, and pop culture figure - Liz WildeLiz WildeLiz Wilde is an American radio personality best known for her shock jock radio program, The Liz Wilde Show.-History:...
, American radio personality - Marty WildeMarty WildeMarty Wilde is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, and is the father of pop singers Ricky Wilde, Kim Wilde and Roxanne Wilde.-Career:Wilde was performing under the name Reg Patterson at London's Condor Club in...
(b. 1939), British rock and roll singer and actor, father of Kim and Ricky Wilde - Nurit WildeNurit WildeNurit 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....
(b. 1971), Israeli-born photographer, socialite, and occasional actress - Olivia WildeOlivia WildeOlivia Wilde is an American actress and fashion model. She began acting in the early 2000s, and has since appeared in a number of film and television parts, including roles in the serial-drama The O.C. and The Black Donnellys. She portrayed Dr...
(b.1984), American actress - Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
(1854–1900), Irish writer - Patrick WildePatrick WildePatrick Wilde is an English playwright and screenwriter for both television and film.-Early work:Most of Wilde's early work was centred around the classics. He played Hamlet, Mark Antony for ATC and Amnon in Tirso de Molina’s Rape of Tamar at the Lyric in London...
, British television, stage and screen writer - Ricky Wilde (b. 1961), British songwriter, musician, record producer, landscape gardener
- Ted WildeTed WildeTed Wilde was a comedy writer and director during the era of silent movies, though he also produced two movies with sound in 1930. He was born in New York, New York. His initial career was as a member of Harold Lloyd's writing staff. His final film as a director was Clancy in Wall Street in 1930...
(1893–1929), comedy writer and director of silent movies - Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (1782–1858), Lord Chancellor of England
- Wilbur WildeWilbur WildeWilbur Wilde is an Australian saxophonist. He rose to prominence with the bands Ol' 55, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons...
(b. 1955), Australian saxophonist - William WildeWilliam WildeSir William Robert Wills Wilde MD, FRCSI, was an Irish eye and ear surgeon, as well as an author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland...
(1815–1876), Irish eye and ear surgeon, writer on medicine, archaeology and folklore, father of Oscar Wilde
Politicians
- Fran WildeFran WildeThe Honorable Fran Wilde QSO , is a New Zealand politician, and former Wellington Labour MP, Minister of Tourism and 31st Mayor of Wellington...
(b. 1948), New Zealand politician - Louis J. WildeLouis J. WildeLouis J. Wilde 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...
(1865–1924), American banker and Republican politician
In sports
- Filip De WildeFilip De WildeFilip Alfons de Wilde is a retired Belgian football goalkeeper, who played mainly with R.S.C. Anderlecht.-Club career:...
, Belgian football goalkeeper - Jimmy WildeJimmy WildeJimmy Wilde , was a Welsh world boxing champion. He was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer, as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, trainer, manager and promoter, Charley 'Broadway' Rose, as "the greatest...
, Welsh world boxing champion - Walter WildeWalter WildeWalter Stanley Wilde played first-class cricket for Somerset in seven County Championship matches in the 1929 season...
(1908–1968), Somerset cricketer
Other
- Dorothy Wilde (1895–1941), Anglo-Irish socialite
- Frankie Wilde, fictional character in the mockumentary It's All Gone Pete TongIt's All Gone Pete Tong-CD 1:#"Pacific State" - 808 State #"Cloud Watch" - Lol Hammond#"Dry Pool Suicide" - Graham Massey#"Moonlight Sonata" - Graham Massey#"Baby Piano" - Lol Hammond#"Ku Da Ta" - Pete Tong...
- Henry Tingle Wilde (1872–1912), chief officer on the RMS Titanic
- Michael WildeMichael WildeMichael 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 company, Southampton Leisure Holdings Plc, went into...
, businessman