Hildegard

Notable people with the name

Hildegard (music duo), 2021 electronic music project by Canadian musicians Helena Deland and Ouri

Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825–1864), Bavarian royal

Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), Christian saint

Hildegarde of Burgundy (c. 1056 – 1104), French noble

Hildegard of Fraumünster (828–856 or 859), daughter of Louis the German and first abbess of Fraumünster

Hildegard, second wife of Charlemagne

Hildegard, Countess of Auvergne or Matilda (c. 802–841), daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye

Hildegard Appeltauer (1927–2017), Austrian figure skater and Olympian

Hildegard Bachert (1921–2019), German-born American art dealer and gallery director

Hildegard Bechtler (born 1951), German costume and set designer

Hildegard Behrens (1937–2009), German opera singer

Hildegard Bentele (born 1967), German politician

Hildegard Björck (1847–1920), Swedish academic pioneer

Hildegard Breiner, Austrian anti-nuclear activist

Hildegard Brom-Fischer (1908–2001), Dutch textile artist, specializing in ecclesiastical embroidery

Hildegard Burjan (1883–1933), German Roman Catholic convert from Judaism and the founder of the Sisterhood of Caritas Socialis

Hildegard Damerius (1910–2006), German lawyer and politician

Hildegard Embacher (born 1967), Austrian cross-country skier and Olympian

Hildegard Falck (born 1949), German middle distance runner and Olympic medalist

Hildegard Fässler (born 1951), Swiss politician

Hildegard Feldmann (1936–1990), Swiss nurse and Catholic lay missionary who was active in India and Colombia

Hildegarde Flanner (1899–1987), American poet and activist

Hildegard Goebbels (1934–1945), daughter and murder victim of Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels and Magda Goebbels

Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born 1930), Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian

Hildegard Grethe (1898–1961), German actress

Hildegard Grill (1927–2023), Austrian gymnast and Olympian

Hildegard Hess (1920–2014), German chemist

Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (1921–2016), German politician

Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel (1944–2024), German academic

Hildegard Heichele (born 1947), German soprano in opera, concert and recital

Hildegarde Howard (1901–1998), American paleornithologist

Hildegard Jadamowitz (1916–1942), German communist activist and a member of the German resistance against National Socialism

Hildegard Jone (1891–1963), Austrian poet and artist

Hildegard Joos (1909–2005), Austrian painter

Hildegard Kleeb (born 1957), Swiss pianist

Hilde Klusenwerth (1910–1999), German hurdler and Olympian

Hildegarde Kneeland (1889–1994), American economist and statistician

Hildegard Knef (1925–2002), German actress, singer and writer

Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl (1908–1968), German-born American physicist

Hildegard Korger (1935–2018), Czech master calligrapher, scholar and professor

Hildegard Körner (born 1959), East German middle distance runner and Olympian

Hildegard Krekel (1952–2013), German actress

Hildegard Lächert (1920–1995), German Nazi concentration camp guard

Hildegard Lamfrom (1922–1984), German-American molecular biologist/biochemist

Hildegard Lehnert (1857–1943), German painter

Hildegard Lewy (1903–1969), Romanian Assyriologist and academic

Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge (1908–1981), poet, playwright and novelist

Hildegard Löwy (1922–1943), German Jewish office worker and member of the anti-Nazi resistance

Hildegard Mende (1922–?), German Nazi concentration camp guard

Hildegard Moniac (1891–1967), German educator and political activist

Hildegarde Naughton (born 1977), Irish politician and mayor of Galway

Hildegarde Neil (1939–2023), South African-born English actress

Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen (1866–1939), German writer with a focus on children's literature and education

Hildegard Neumann (born 1919 – c. 2010), German Nazi and concentration camp overseer

Hildegard Maria Nickel (born 1948), German sociologist and feminist

Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), German photographer

Hildegard Peplau (1909–1999), American nurse

Hildegard Puwak (1949–2018), Romanian politician

Hildegard Ranczak (1895–1987), Bohemian operatic soprano

Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß (1918–2000), German writer

Hildegard Reinhardt (born 1942), German translator and art historian

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira (1914–1933, Spanish activist for socialism and sexual revolution

Hildegard Rosenthal (1913–1990), Swiss-born Brazilian photographer

Hildegard Rothe-Ille (1899–1942), German mathematician

Hildegard Rütgers (born 1930), German classical contralto singer in opera and concert

Hildegard Schaeder (1902–1984), German theologian and church historian

Hilde Schrader (1910–1966), German swimmer and Olympian

Hildegarde Sell (1906–2005), American cabaret singer known as Hildegarde

Hildegard Sellhuber (born 1950), retired German speed skater and Olympian

Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908–1981), German-Danish tennis player

Hildegard Stücklen (1891–1963), German-American physicist who dealt with spectroscopy

Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum (1939–2004), German classical historian and writer

Hildegard Thorell (1850–1930), Swedish painter

Hildegard Trabant (1927–1964), East German woman shot and killed while trying to cross over the Berlin Wall into West Germany

Hildegard Vieregg (born 1939), German museologist and museum professional, an educator, a university professor and lecturer, author, editor and administrator

Hilda (Hildegarde) Vīka (1897–1963), Latvian artist and writer

Hildegard Werner (1834–1911), Swedish musician, musical conductor, and journalist active in Great Britain

Hildegard Westerkamp (born 1946), German-born Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher, and sound ecologist

Hildegard Woodward (1898–1977), American children's book author and illustrator

Hildegard Wortmann (born 1966), 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 (Marvel Comics), 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 (web/app version)

Hildegard; 'Devout Oracle' from the mobile game Dragalia Lost

Hildegarde (Hilda) from the manga and anime series Beelzebub Beelzebub (manga)

Hildegard Hamhocker, a character in Tumbleweeds (comic strip)

Hildegard "Hildy" Gloom, witch and main antagonist of The 7D