Maude (name)

Maude is a surname, and also a feminine given name, and may refer to:

People

• Empress Matilda (1101–1167), also called Empress Maud or Maude, first female ruler of England, mother of Henry II

First name

• Maude Harcheb, French singer and reality television contestant in Les Anges de la téléréalité. Known by her mononym Maude
• Maude Maggart, American singer
• Maude Nugent (1873 or 1874–1958), American singer and composer
• Maude Andrews Ohl (1862–1943), American journalist, poet, novelist
• Maude Annesley (1871–1930), English novelist
• Maude Gillette Phillips (1860–?), American author and educator
• Maude Apatow (Born 1997) American Actress

Surname

• Angus Maude, British politician
• Aylmer Maude with Louise Maude, British Tolstoyans
• Caitlín Maude, Irish poet and traditional singer
• Charles Bulmer Maude, served as the third incumbent at St Cyprian's Church, Kimberley, South Africa (1877–1881) and was afterwards the Vicar of Leek, Staffordshire
• Cyril Maude, British actor
• Francis Maude, British politician, son of Angus Maude
• Francis Cornwallis Maude, Irish soldier
• Frederick Francis Maude, Irish soldier
• Frederick Stanley Maude, British general of World War I
• George Ashley Maude, British Army officer and equerry
• Henry Evans Maude, British administrator and anthropologist
• Honor Courtney Maude, British-Australian authority on Oceanic string figures, wife of H.E. Maude
• James Ashley Maude, Royal Navy officer
• Nesta Maude Ashworth
• Timothy Maude, U.S. Army general

Given name

• Maude Adams (1872–1953), American actress
• Maude Allen (1879–1956), American character actress
• Maude Apatow (born 1997), American actress
• Maude Ballou (1925–2019), American civil rights activist
• Maude Barlow (born 1947), Canadian author and activist
• Maude Brown Dawson (1874–1946), wife of former Governor of West Virginia William M. O. Dawson and served as that state's First Lady, 1909-1913
• Maude Cary (1878–1967), Christian American missionary to North Africa, specifically Morocco
• Maude Duncan, an American newspaperwoman and a former mayor of Winslow, Arkansas
• Maude Eburne (1875–1960), Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles
• Maude Farris-Luse (1887–2002), American supercentenarian
• Maude Fay (1878–1964), American operatic soprano who was known for singing dramatic roles
• Maude Fealy (1883–1971), American stage and film actress
• Maude Frazier (1881–1963), American politician from Nevada
• Maude Fulton (1881–1950), Broadway stage actress who later became a Hollywood screenwriter
• Maude Garrett (born 1986), Australian broadcaster
• Maude George (1888–1963), American actress of the silent era
• Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer (1877–1959), early 20th-century painter associated with the Richmond Group of artists in Richmond, Indiana
• Maude Kegg (1904–1996), Ojibwa writer, folk artist and cultural interpreter
• Maude Kerns (1876–1965), American artist
• Maude Lloyd (1908–2004), South African ballerina and dance critic
• Maude Meagher (1895–1977), novelist, author of Fantastic Traveller
• Maude Nugent (1877–1958), American songwriter
• Maude Odell (1870–1937), American actress
• Maude Robinson (1859–1950), Quaker writer of short stories
• Maude Royden (1876–1956), British preacher and suffragist
• Maude Storey (1930–2003), British nurse, nursing administrator and writer, as well as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1988 to 1990
• Maude Turner Gordon (1868–1940), American actress
• Maude C. Waitt, American politician, former member of the Ohio Senate
• Maude Valérie White (1855–1937), French-born English composer

Characters

• Maude Findlay, a fictional character on the controversial 1970s sitcom Maude
• Maude Flanders, a fictional character from The Simpsons
• Maude Frickett, a fictional character from the repertoire of comedian Jonathan Winters
• Maude Lebowski, a fictional character played by Julianne Moore in the 1998 film "The Big Lebowski"
• Dame Marjorie "Maude" Chardin, a fictional character in the 1971 film Harold and Maude

See also

• Frederick Maude (disambiguation)
• Viscount Hawarden, family name Maude
• Maud (given name)