Hiram Wild (15 March 1917 - 28 April 1982) was an English botanist who worked in Southern Rhodesia.

In 1945, he wrote his Ph.D. thesis in which he examined the lettuce pathogen, Bremia lactucae.

In 1960, Wild started the Herbarium botanical journal 'Kirkia', named for John Kirk (1832–1922), African explorer and companion of David Livingstone.

In 1980, due to ill-health, he resigned as professor at Salisbury and moved to Cape Town, South Africa.

Hiram was the son of Hiram Wild (*July 1895, Sheffield, Yorkshire) and Margaret Hawksworth (*13 May 1896 Sheffield, Yorkshire) He married Kathleen Mabel Jean Osborne (*8 July 1918 Cape Town) in 1945.