Wade

Wade or WADE could refer to:

Places

• Wade, California
• Wade, Maine
• Wade, Mississippi
• Wade, North Carolina
• Wade Township, Clinton County, Illinois
• Wade Township, Jasper County, Illinois
• Wade County, Choctaw Nation, former political subdivision

People

Surname

• Abdoulaye Wade (born 1926), President of Senegal
• April Wade, American actress and producer
• Benjamin Wade (1800–1878), American lawyer and United States Senator from Ohio
• Bernie L. Wade (born 1963), American minister, President of the International Circle of Faith
• Bill Wade (born 1930), former American footballer
• Bobby Wade (born 1981), American footballer
• Charles Wade (1863–1922), Premier of New South Wales (1907–10)
• Chris Wade, real estate broker involved in the American Whitewater scandal
• Christopher Wade, English martyr
• Cory Wade (born 1983), American Major League Baseball player
• Donald Wade, Baron Wade (1904–1988), British Liberal Party politician
• Doug Wade (born 1941), former Australian rules footballer
• Dwyane Wade (born 1982), National Basketball Association star
• Ed Wade (born 1956), general manager of the Major League Baseball Houston Astros
• George Wade (1673–1748), British military commander
• Henry Wade (1914–2001), Texas lawyer and lead defendant in Roe v. Wade
• Henry William Rawson Wade (commonly known as William Wade; 1918–2004), British legal academic
• James Wade (born 1983), English darts player
• Jason Wade (born 1980), singer/songwriter
• John Francis Wade (1711–1786), English composer
• Mark Sweeten Wade (1859–1929), Canadian medical doctor and historian
• Martin Joseph Wade (1861–1931), U.S. Democratic Representative from Iowa
• Mary Wade (1777–1859), the youngest convict transported to Australia aboard the Lady Juliana
• Mary Wade (paleontologist) (1928–2005), Australian paleontologist
• Matthew Wade (born 1987), Australian cricketer
• Paul Wade (born 1962), retired Australian footballer
• Robert Wade (disambiguation), several
• Scott Wade (born 1960), former Australian rules footballer
• Thomas Wade (writer) (1805–1875), English poet and dramatist
• Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), British diplomat and sinologist
• Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player from the United Kingdom

Given name

• Wade Allison (born 1941), British physicist and Oxford professor
• Wade Belak (born 1976), former National Hockey League player
• Wade Boggs (born 1958), former Major League Baseball player
• Wade Cunningham (born 1984), New Zealand race car driver
• Wade Davis (born 1953), Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer
• Wade Davis (baseball) (born 1985), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Wade Hampton (disambiguation), various persons of that name
• Wade Hayes (born 1969), American country music artist
• Wade Houston, former collegiate basketball player and coach, father of former National Basketball Association player Alan Houston
• Wade Mainer (born 1907), American singer and banjoist
• Wade Phillips (born 1947), National Football League defensive coordinator and former head coach
• Wade Rathke (born 1948), co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
• Wade Redden (born 1977), National Hockey League player
• Wade Regehr, Professor of Neurobiology in Harvard Medical School's Department of Neurobiology
• Wade Robson (born 1982), Australian dancer, director, producer, songwriter and choreographer
• Wade Schalles (born 1951), American champion amateur wrestler
• Wade Ward (1892–1971), American old-time music banjo player and fiddler
• Wade Watts (1919–1998), African American gospel preacher and civil rights activist

Other uses

• World Alliance for Decentralized Energy
• Wade Ceramics, manufacturers of porcelain and earthenware; known for making "Whimsies"
• WADE (AM), a radio station in Wadesboro, North Carolina, United States
• Wade Welles, a fictional character from Sliders
• Wade (folklore), a Germanic god also known as Waetla
• Wade–Giles, a method of Romanisation of Chinese, sometimes abbreviated as Wade
• Wade Stadium, a baseball field in Duluth, Minnesota
• Wade Trophy, for the best woman basketball player in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I

See also

• Waad (disambiguation), another form of the name
• Roe v. Wade, an abortion lawsuit in the United States