Hildegard
Hildegard is a female name derived from the Old High German hild and gard, and means 'battle guard'. 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, daughter of Louis the German and first abbess of Fraumünster
- Hildegard of Bingen, Christian saint
- Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne, second wife of Charlemagne
- Hildegard, daughter of Louis or Matilda, daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye
- Hildegard Behrens, German opera singer
- Hildegard Falck, German middle distance runner and Olympic medalist
- Hildegarde Howard, American paleornithologist
- Hildegarde Kneeland, American economist and statistician
- Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer
- Hildegard Körner, East German middle distance runner and Olympian
- Hildegarde, American cabaret singer
- Hildegarde Flanner, American poet and activist
- Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge, poet, playwright and novelist
- Hildegarde Naughton, Irish politician and mayor of Galway
- Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, activist for socialism and sexual revolution
- Hildegard Werner, Swedish musician
Notable fictional characters
- 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
