Wade (given name)

• Wade Allison, British physicist and Oxford professor
• Wade Baldwin IV, American basketball player
• Wade Belak, former National Hockey League player
• Wade Boggs, former Major League Baseball player
• Wade Cunningham, New Zealand race car driver
• Wade Davis , Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer
• Wade Davis , Major League Baseball pitcher
• Wade Guyton, American artist
• Wade Hampton, various persons of that name
• Wade Hayes, American country music artist
• Wade Helliwell, retired Australian basketball player
• Wade Houston, former collegiate basketball player and coach, father of former National Basketball Association player Alan Houston
• Wade MacNeil, Canadian singer and guitarist of post-hardcore band Alexisonfire
• Wade Mainer, American singer and banjoist
• Wade Miley, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Wade Phillips, National Football League defensive coordinator and former head coach
• Wade Rathke, co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
• Wade Redden, National Hockey League player
• Wade Regehr, Professor of Neurobiology in Harvard Medical School's Department of Neurobiology
• Wade Robson, Australian dancer, director, producer, songwriter and choreographer
• Wade Sanders, former Deputy Assistant United States Secretary of the Navy for Reserve Affairs and sex offender
• Wade Schalles, American champion amateur wrestler
• Wade Ward, American old-time music banjo player and fiddler
• Wade Watts, African American gospel preacher and civil rights activist

  Fictional characters

• Wade, in English folklore
• Wade Bailey, in HBO's Hello Ladies
• Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool, a mercenary in the Marvel universe
• Wade Gustafson, in the Coen brothers film Fargo
• Wade, in Disney's Kim Possible
• Wade Welles, a female character on the television show Sliders
• Wade Meecham, a villain and murder victim in The Edge of Night
• Wade Eiling, a DC Comics character
• Wade Watts, in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One