Wade Ward (1892–1971) was an American old-time music banjo player and fiddler from Independence, Virginia.

[1] He was widely known playing the clawhammer banjo and frequently won the Galax, Virginia Old Time Fiddler's Convention.

[5] In the early 1930s, Ward joined a band called the Ballard Branch[6] Bogtrotters, formed by his older brother Crockett, who was twenty years his senior.

[7] Folklorist John A. Lomax discovered the group in 1937 at the Galax Fiddlers' Convention and recorded them for the Library of Congress.

[9] He died in 1971 in Independence, Virginia, and is buried in the Saddle Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery a few miles west of town.