Wild Goose (disambiguation)

Wild Goose can mean the following:

• the pre-Linnean name for the Greylag Goose (anser ferus)
• "The Wild Geese", a name given to Irish soldiers who served in European armies after being exiled from Ireland, later taken up by the Fenians
  • The Wild Goose, derived from the above, a newspaper penned aboard the last convict ship to Australia
  • The Wild Geese Memorial erected at Rockingham, Western Australia to commemorate the Catalpa rescue of Fenian prisoners
• the British Royal Navy sloop HMS Wild Goose (U45)
• Wild Goose, a yacht that was owned by actor John Wayne, formerly a U.S. minesweeper USS YMS-328
• USS Wild Goose (SP-562), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1920
• USS Wild Goose II (SP-891), a United States Navy patrol vessel in service from 1917 to 1920
• the song "De Wild Goose-Nation" by blackface minstrel performer Dan Emmett
• the Small Wild Goose Pagoda or the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, China
• a Wild goose chase, a futile pursuit, especially as the result of a hoax
• the Wild Goose is a symbol of the Iona Community.
• "The Cry of the Wild Goose," a song written Terry Gilkyson and became a hit song by Frankie Laine in 1950.