Herbert Louis Wild (2 July 1865 – March 1940) was a Bishop in the Church of England.
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He was the son of Rev. R. L. Wild, rector of Hurstmonceux in Sussex.
He married Helen Christian Severn in 1903 and they had 4 sons and a daughter.
He was educated at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford where he graduated in 1886. He was ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1895.
He became Vice-Principal and Chaplain of St Edmund Hall, Oxford until 1903 when he became assistant curate at St. Ann's Church, Nottingham. In 1904 he was appointed vicar of Church of St. John the Evangelist, Carrington until 1909 when he returned to Oxford to be Vicar of St. Giles.
He was appointed Archdeacon of Nottingham in 1913 and Bishop of Newcastle in 1915, a post he held until 1927 when he resigned because of poor health.
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| Preceded by Norman Straton |
Bishop of Newcastle 1915–1927 |
Succeeded by Harold Ernest Bilbrough |