Fran Wilde

The Honourable
Dame Fran Wilde
DNZM QSO
The Honourable Dame Fran Wilde DNZM QSO
	Wilde in 2017
7th Mayor of South Wairarapa
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; October 2025
Preceded by	Martin Connelly
5th Chairperson of the Wellington Regional Council
	In office; 30 October 2007 – 30 June 2015
Preceded by	Ian Buchanan
Succeeded by	Chris Laidlaw
31st Mayor of Wellington
	In office; 28 October 1992 – 28 October 1995
Deputy	David Watt
Preceded by	Jim Belich
Succeeded by	Mark Blumsky
28th Minister of Tourism
	In office; 24 August 1989 – 2 November 1990
Prime Minister	Geoffrey Palmer; Mike Moore
Preceded by	Jonathan Hunt
Succeeded by	John Banks
2nd Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control
	In office; 24 August 1989 – 2 November 1990
Prime Minister	Geoffrey Palmer; Mike Moore
Preceded by	Russell Marshall
Succeeded by	Doug Graham
Member of the New Zealand Parliament; for Wellington Central
	In office; 28 November 1981 – 10 October 1992
Preceded by	Ken Comber
Succeeded by	Chris Laidlaw
Personal details
Born	Frances Helen Kitching; 11 November 1948; Wellington, New Zealand
Party	Labour
Alma mater	Victoria University

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Dame Frances Helen Wilde DNZM QSO (née Kitching, born 11 November 1948) is a New Zealand politician. She was elected mayor of South Wairarapa in October 2025.

Wilde was first elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives in 1981 as the Labour Party member of parliament in Wellington Central. She achieved legislative success promoting the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 and subsequently served as Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control and Minister of Tourism in the Fourth Labour Government. She resigned her seat after being elected mayor of Wellington in 1992, a position she held for a single term.

Wilde returned to politics in 2004, winning a seat on the Greater Wellington Regional Council which she chaired from 2007 to 2015. She led an unsuccessful attempt to amalgamate the nine councils in the Wellington region.