"The Wise" is an epithet which may refer to:

Contents

• People
• Fictional and mythological characters
• See also

People

• Ailerán (died 664 or 665), Irish saint and scholar
• Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284), King of Castile, León and Galicia
• Ari Thorgilsson (1067–1148), Icelandic medieval chronicler
• Banban the Wise (fl. c. mid to late 5th century), Irish saint
• Berengar the Wise (died 835), Count (or Duke) of Toulouse, Duke (or Margrave) of Septimania, and Count of Barcelona
• Cato the Elder (234–149 BC), Roman soldier, senator and historian
• Charles V of France (1338–1380), King of France
• Epiphanius the Wise (died 1420), monk and Eastern Orthodox saint
• Francisco José de Caldas (1768–1816), Colombian lawyer, engineer and geographer
• Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1463–1525), a German nobleman who protected Martin Luther
• Gildas (c. 500–570), British saint and cleric
• John V, Duke of Brittany (1389–1442), also Count of Montfort
• Leo VI the Wise (866–912), Eastern Roman Emperor, Macedonian dynasty
• Louis I of Brzeg (c. 1321–1398), Duke and regent of Legnica, Duke of Brzeg
• Robert, King of Naples (1277–1343), known as a peacemaker and a patron of the arts
• Rognvald Eysteinsson (fl. 9th century), founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas
• Yaroslav the Wise (c. 978–1054), thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev

Fictional and mythological characters

• Dag the Wise, a mythological Swedish king
• Alhamazad the Wise, a character in the Greyhawk series
• Ansem the Wise, a character in the Kingdom Hearts series
• Darth Plagueis the Wise, a character in the Star Wars franchise
• Fintan mac Bóchra, a seer in Irish mythology
• The title character of the play Nathan the Wise
• Russano the Wise, from several Redwall novels
• Vasilisa the Wise, the title character in the Russian version of the fairy tale The Frog Princess

See also

• List of people known as the Learned