Wade (surname)
Wade is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abdoulaye Wade (born 1926), President of Senegal
- Ainley Wade, Pharmaceutical historian and former editor of Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia
- April Wade, American actress and producer
- Benjamin Wade (1800–1878), American lawyer and United States Senator from Ohio
- Bernie L. Wade (born 1963), American minister, President of the International Circle of Faith
- Bill Wade (born 1930), former American footballer
- Bobby Wade (born 1981), American footballer
- Charles Wade (1863–1922), Premier of New South Wales (1907–10)
- Chris Wade (real estate broker), real estate broker involved in the American Whitewater scandal
- Christopher Wade, English martyr
- Cory Wade (born 1983), American Major League Baseball player
- David Wade (general) (1911–1990), American lieutenant general
- David Wade (politician) (born 1950), Australian former politician
- Donald Wade, Baron Wade (1904–1988), British Liberal Party politician
- Doug Wade (born 1941), former Australian rules footballer
- Dwyane Wade (born 1982), American basketball player
- Ed Wade (born 1956), general manager of the Major League Baseball Houston Astros
- George Wade (1673–1748), British military commander
- Henry Wade (1914–2001), Texas lawyer and lead defendant in Roe v. Wade
- Henry William Rawson Wade (commonly known as William Wade; 1918–2004), British legal academic
- Henry Wade, pen name of British mystery writer Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet (1887-1969)
- James Wade (born 1983), English darts player
- Jason Wade (born 1980), singer/songwriter
- Jeremy Wade (born 1956), British TV presenter (River Monsters) and fishing author
- John Francis Wade (1711–1786), English composer
- Joseph Augustine Wade (1796–1845), Irish composer
- Mark Wade (born 1965), American retired basketball player
- Mark Sweeten Wade (1859–1929), Canadian medical doctor and historian
- Martin Joseph Wade (1861–1931), U.S. Democratic Representative from Iowa
- Mary Wade (1777–1859), the youngest convict transported to Australia aboard the Lady Juliana
- Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (1860–1936), American writer
- Mary Virginia "Ginnie" Wade (1843-1863), the only civilian casualty in the Battle of Gettysburg
- Mary Wade (paleontologist) (1928–2005), Australian paleontologist
- Matthew Wade (born 1987), Australian cricketer
- Paul Wade (born 1962), retired Australian footballer
- Robert Wade (disambiguation), several
- Scott Wade (born 1960), former Australian rules footballer
- Thomas M. Wade (1860-1929), American politician and educator
- Thomas Wade (writer) (1805–1875), English poet and dramatist
- Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), British diplomat and sinologist
- Thomas James Wade (1893-1969), American Roman Catholic bishop
- Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player from the United Kingdom
- Wallace Wade (1892–1986), American college sports coach
- Wayne Wade (born 1959), Jamaican reggae musician