Hildegard
Hildegard is a female name derived from the Old High German hild and gard, and means 'battle enclosure'. Variant spellings include: Hildegarde; the Polish, Portuguese, Slovene and Spanish Hildegarda; the Italian Ildegarda; the Hungarian Hildegárd; and the ancient German Hildegardis.
Notable people with the name
- Hildegard, 2021 electronic music project by Canadian musicians Helena Deland and Ouri
- Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, Bavarian royal
- Hildegard of Bingen, Christian saint
- Hildegarde of Burgundy, French noble
- Hildegard of Fraumünster, daughter of Louis the German and first abbess of Fraumünster
- Hildegard, second wife of Charlemagne
- Hildegard, Countess of Auvergne or Matilda, daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye
- Hildegard Appeltauer, Austrian figure skater and Olympian
- Hildegard Bachert, German-born American art dealer and gallery director
- Hildegard Bechtler, German costume and set designer
- Hildegard Behrens, German opera singer
- Hildegard Bentele, German politician
- Hildegard Björck, Swedish academic pioneer
- Hildegard Breiner, Austrian anti-nuclear activist
- Hildegard Brom-Fischer, Dutch textile artist, specializing in ecclesiastical embroidery
- Hildegard Burjan, German Roman Catholic convert from Judaism and the founder of the Sisterhood of Caritas Socialis
- Hildegard Damerius, German lawyer and politician
- Hildegard Embacher, Austrian cross-country skier and Olympian
- Hildegard Falck, German middle distance runner and Olympic medalist
- Hildegard Fässler, Swiss politician
- Hildegard Feldmann, Swiss nurse and Catholic lay missionary who was active in India and Colombia
- Hildegarde Flanner, American poet and activist
- Hildegard Goebbels, daughter and murder victim of Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels and Magda Goebbels
- Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian
- Hildegard Grill, Austrian gymnast and Olympian
- Hildegard Hess, German chemist
- Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
- Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, German academic
- Hildegard Heichele, German soprano in opera, concert and recital
- Hildegarde Howard, American paleornithologist
- Hildegard Jadamowitz, German communist activist and a member of the German resistance against National Socialism
- Hildegard Jone, Austrian poet and artist
- Hildegard Joos, Austrian painter
- Hildegard Kleeb, Swiss pianist
- Hilde Klusenwerth, German hurdler and Olympian
- Hildegarde Kneeland, American economist and statistician
- Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer
- Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl, German-born American physicist
- Hildegard Korger, Czech master calligrapher, scholar and professor
- Hildegard Körner, East German middle distance runner and Olympian
- Hildegard Krekel, German actress
- Hildegard Lächert, German Nazi concentration camp guard
- Hildegard Lamfrom, German-American molecular biologist/biochemist
- Hildegard Lehnert, German painter
- Hildegard Lewy, Romanian Assyriologist and academic
- Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge, poet, playwright and novelist
- Hildegard Löwy, German Jewish office worker and member of the anti-Nazi resistance
- Hildegard Mende, German Nazi concentration camp guard
- Hildegarde Naughton, Irish politician and mayor of Galway
- Hildegarde Neil, South African-born English actress
- Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen, German writer with a focus on children's literature and education
- Hildegard Neumann, German Nazi and concentration camp overseer
- Hildegard Maria Nickel, German sociologist and feminist
- Hildegard Ochse, German photographer
- Hildegard Peplau, American nurse
- Hildegard Puwak, Romanian politician
- Hildegard Ranczak, Bohemian operatic soprano
- Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß, German writer
- Hildegard Reinhardt, German translator and art historian
- Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, Swiss-born Brazilian photographer
- Hildegard Rothe-Ille, German mathematician
- Hildegard Rütgers, German classical contralto singer in opera and concert
- Hildegard Schaeder, German theologian and church historian
- Hilde Schrader, German swimmer and Olympian
- Hildegarde Sell, American cabaret singer known as Hildegarde
- Hildegard Sellhuber, retired German speed skater and Olympian
- Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German-Danish tennis player
- Hildegard Stücklen, German-American physicist who dealt with spectroscopy
- Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum, German classical historian and writer
- Hildegard Thorell, Swedish painter
- Hildegard Trabant, East German woman shot and killed while trying to cross over the Berlin Wall into West Germany
- Hildegard Vieregg, German museologist and museum professional, an educator, a university professor and lecturer, author, editor and administrator
- Hilda Vīka, Latvian artist and writer
- Hildegard Werner, Swedish musician, musical conductor, and journalist active in Great Britain
- Hildegard Westerkamp, German-born Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher, and sound ecologist
- Hildegard Woodward, American children's book author and illustrator
- Hildegard Wortmann, German business executive
Notable fictional characters
- Hildegarde Antoinette "Hilda" Spellman, a character in the comic book Sabrina the Teenage Witch and subsequent television series
- Hildegarde, a Valkyrie
- Hildegarde Withers, in novels and films
- Hildegard von Krone, from the Soul series of fighting games
- Hildegard von Mariendorf, from Legend of the Galactic Heroes
- Hildegarde T., from the anime and manga series Beelzebub by Ryūhei Tamura
- Hildegarde, in the Johann Strauss operetta Simplicius
- Hildegard 'Hildy' Johnson, from 1940 American comedy film His Girl Friday
- Princess Hildegard, from the Disney animated series Sofia the First
- Hildegarde, from the game Catan
- Hildegard; 'Devout Oracle' from the mobile game Dragalia Lost
- Hildegarde from the manga and anime series Beelzebub Beelzebub
- Hildegard Hamhocker, a character in Tumbleweeds
- Hildegard "Hildy" Gloom, witch and main antagonist of ''The 7D''