Matilda

Matilda or Mathilda may refer to:

Animals

  • Atheris matildae (also Matilda's horned viper), a species of arboreal forest viper endemic to Tanzania
  • Matilda (chicken), the first chicken to receive the title of World's Oldest Living Chicken from Guinness World Records
  • Matilda, a dog of the professional wrestling tag-team The British Bulldogs
  • Matilda (horse) (1824–1846), British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
  • Matilda australia, a monotypic genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Cyatholipidae

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Matilda, a child from the British comic strip Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
  • Matilda, a house robot from the British TV series Robot Wars
  • Matilda Wormwood, title character of the bestselling children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl

Music

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Transportation and military

People

  • Matilda (name) (also Mathilda and Mathilde), the English form of the Germanic female name Mahthildis
  • Empress Matilda (1102–1167), claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy
  • Matilda of Boulogne (c.1105–1152), Queen of England as the wife of King Stephen
  • Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156–1189), eldest daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Matilda of Flanders (c.1031–1083), Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror
  • Matilda of Scotland (c.1080–1118), Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry I
  • Matilda of Tuscany (1046–1115), powerful feudal Margravine of Tuscany
  • Saint Matilda (c.894–968), Duchess of Saxony from 912 and German queen (Queen of the Franks) from 919

Other uses

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gollark: Well, you're probably invoking bees by hooking the function or whatever.
gollark: Troubling.
gollark: Maybe things are not respecting "cflags" due to bee.
gollark: Actually, the only thing there is a cognitohazard.

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Matilda
  • All pages with titles containing Matilda
  • Mathilde (disambiguation)
  • Matilde
  • Matilda Centre, a social and community centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
  • Matilda effect, a bias against acknowledging the achievements of those women scientists whose work is attributed to their male colleagues
  • Matilda House, one of the oldest houses in Singapore
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