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Wade or WADE could refer to:
[edit] 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
[edit] People
[edit] 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
[edit] 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, 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
[edit] 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
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