Hilde (given name)
Hilde is one of several female given names derived from the name Hild formed from Old Norse hildr, meaning "battle". Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona, was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game. Hilde was popular in Norway from the 1950s until the 1970s. It is a variant of Hilda, which in turn is a more recent variation of Hildur.
People named Hilde
- Hilde Benjamin, East German judge who presided over political show trials
- Hilde Bergebakken, Norwegian Socialist Left Party politician
- Hilde De Baerdemaeker, Flemish actress
- Hilde Bruch, German-born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Hilde Coppi, German communist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter
- Hilde Crevits, Belgian politician
- Hilde Domin, German lyric poet and writer
- Hilde Gerg, German former alpine skier
- Hilde Grande, Norwegian politician
- Hilde Güden, Austrian operatic soprano
- Hilde Hagerup, Norwegian novelist and children author
- Hilde Haugsgjerd, Norwegian newspaper editor
- Hilde Heynen, Belgian professor of architectural theory
- Hilde Hildebrand, German actress
- Hilde Himmelweit, German social psychologist
- Hilde Holger, Austrian dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
- Hilde Holovsky, Austrian figure skater
- Hilda Mary Hooke, Canadian writer
- Hilde Houben-Bertrand, Belgian Flemish politician and former provincial governor of Limburg
- Hilde Hovdenak, Norwegian retired long-distance runner
- Hilde Hummelvoll, Norwegian television personality
- Hilde Indreberg, Norwegian judge
- Hilde Frafjord Johnson, Norwegian Christian Democratic Party politician
- Hilde Konetzni, Austrian operatic soprano
- Hilde Körber, German film actress
- Hilde Krahl, Austrian film actress
- Hilde Lauer, Romanian Olympic sprint canoer
- Hilde Lindemann, American philosophy professor and bioethicist
- Hilde Lyrån, Norwegian actress, dancer, and comedian
- Hilde Lysiak, American journalist
- Hilde Magnusson Lydvo, Norwegian politician
- Hilde Mangold, German embryologist
- Hilde Marstrander, Norwegian fashion journalist and illustrator
- Hilde Meisel, Jewish German socialist, journalist and anti-Nazi resistance member
- Hilde Østbø, Norwegian Olympic handball player
- Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen
- Hilde Quintens, Belgian cyclist
- Hilde Riis, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier
- Hilde Sandvik, Norwegian journalist
- Hilde Schrader, German Olympic swimmer
- Hilde Schramm, daughter of German architect and war criminal Albert Speer
- Hilde Schutte, Dutch undefeated kickboxer with long legs
- Hilde Sherman, German Holocaust survivor and memoirist.
- Hilde Singsaas, Norwegian Labour Party politician
- Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player
- Hilde Strømsvold, Norwegian football goalkeeper
- Hilde Synnøve Lid, Norwegian Olympic freestyle skier
- Hilde Teerlinck, Belgian curator
- Hilde Tellesbø, Norwegian orienteering competitor
- Hilde Urbaniak, West German slalom canoeist
- Hilde Vogt, Norwegian politician
- Hilde Waage, Norwegian historian
- Hilde Weissner, German actress
- Hilde Wendel, Dutch politician
- Hilde Zach, mayor of Innsbruck, Austria
- Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano
- Hilde Zaloscer, Austrian art historian, Egyptologist, Coptologist, essayist and novelist
- Hilde Ziegler, German actress
- Hilde Zimmermann, Austrian resistance fighter against Nazism and survivor of the KZ Ravensbrück