List of people known as the Wise

• Ailerán, Irish saint and scholar
• Alfonso X of Castile, King of Castile, León and Galicia
• Ari Þorgilsson,, Icelandic medieval chronicler
• Banban the Wise, Irish saint, fl. c. mid to late 5th century.
• Berengar the Wise, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Septimania, and Count of Barcelona
• Charles V of France, King of France
• Epiphanius the Wise, monk and Eastern Orthodox saint
• Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, a German nobleman who protected Martin Luther
• Gildas, British saint and cleric
• Leo VI the Wise, Eastern Roman Emperor, Macedonian dynasty
• Louis I of Brzeg, Duke and regent of Legnica, Duke of Brzeg
• Robert, King of Naples, known as a peacemaker and a patron of the arts
• Rognvald Eysteinsson, founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas
• Yaroslav the Wise, thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev

  Fictional characters

• Dag the Wise, mythological Swedish king
• Alhamazad the Wise, see List of Greyhawk characters
• Ansem the Wise, one the characters of Kingdom Hearts
• the title character of the play Nathan the Wise
• Russano the Wise, from several Redwall novels
• Vasilisa the Wise, variant name in The Frog Princess
• Darth Plagueis the Wise, mentioned in
• Payton Wilder