Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin. He would later assert that a name which is destined to be in everyone’s mouth must not be too long. All the world would come to know him simply as Oscar Wilde.
Birthname: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Birth: October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Grey
High school: Portora Royal School
College: Trinity College, Magdalen College
Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet, editor
Death: November 30, 1900, Paris, France
Burial: La Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
Oscar Wilde is famous for his witty plays Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his long poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Less well-known are his fairy tales, of which he published two volumes.
