Full Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
Nickname: Oscar Wilde.

Father: Sir William Wilde (d. 19-Apr-1876).
Mother: Jane Francisca Elgee Wilde (d. 1896).
Wife: Constance Lloyd (m. 29-May-1884, div. 1893).
Son: Cyril Holland (b. 1885), Vyvyan B. Holland (b. 1886).

Date of Birth: 16 October 1854.
Birth Place: Dublin, Ireland.

Date of Death: 30 November 1900 (aged 46).
Death Place: Paris, France.
Cause of Death: Infection.
Remains: Buried, Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, France.

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Nationality: Ireland
High School: Portora Royal School (1871)
University: Trinity College, Magdalen College, Oxford University (1874-78)
Occupation: Writer, Poet, Playwright
Language: English, French
Period: Victorian era
Genres: Drama, short story, dialogue, journalism
Literary Movement: Aestheticism.

Notable Work(s): The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Influences: Plato, Aristotle, Greek literature, William Shakespeare, French literature, Joris-Karl Huysmans, John Keats, Victor Hugo, Peter Kropotkin, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, James McNeill Whistler, John Pentland Mahaffy, Dante.

Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde were the second of the three children of William Robert Wills Wilde (1815–1876) and his wife, Jane Francesca Elgee (1821–1896) was born in Dublin on 16th October 1854. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Wilde was lauded by and acquainted with many influential figures of the day including fellow playwright George Bernard Shaw, American poets Walt Whitman and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and English author and social critic John Ruskin. After attending Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Ireland, Wilde moved on to study the classics at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874. At the age of twenty-three, Wilde entered Magdalen College, Oxford, England. In 1878 he was awarded the Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna. In 1884, he married Constance Lloyd and they were together until 1893. They were two sons Cyril Holland (b. 1885), and Vyvyan B. Holland (b. 1886). He died on 30 November 1900 at the age of 46 in Paris, France. He buried Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, France.