Maud Gonne MacBride (December 21, 1866 – April 27, 1953) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with William Butler Yeats.

Edith Maud Gonne was born at Tongham Manor, near Farnham, Surrey, the eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Gonne (1835-1886) of the 17th Lancers, whose ancestors hailed from Caithness in Scotland, and his wife, Edith Frith Gonne, née Cook (1844-1871). Her mother died while Maud was still a child, and so she was sent to France to be educated.

In 1882 her father, an army officer, was posted to Dublin, a fateful occurrence. She accompanied him and remained with him until his death. She returned to France after a bout of tuberculosis and fell in love with a right-wing politician, Lucien Millevoye. They agreed to fight for Irish freedom and to regain Alsace-Lorraine for France. She returned to Ireland and worked tirelessly for the release of Irish political prisoners from jail.

In 1890 she returned to France where she once again met Millevoye. Between 1893 and 1895 the couple had two children together. Only the second, a girl named Iseult Lucille Germaine Millevoye, survived, and would later marry the Irish-Australian novelist, Francis Stuart.

During the 1890s Maud travelled extensively throughout England, Scotland and the United States campaigning for the nationalist cause. In 1899 her relationship with Millevoye ended. In 1897, along with William Butler Yeats, she organized protests against the Queen's Jubilee. At Easter 1900 she founded Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland), a revolutionary

In the same year Maud joined the Roman Catholic Church. She refused Yeats' many marriage proposals because she viewed him as insufficiently republican and because of his unwillingness to convert to Roman Catholicism (due, at least in part, to his occult leanings, as President of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn). She married John MacBride in Paris in 1903. The following year, their son, Sean MacBride, was born. However after the failed marriage ended in divorce, and her husband returned to Ireland, Maud remained in Paris until 1917.

In 1918 she was arrested in Dublin and imprisoned in England for six months. During the War of Independence she worked with the White Cross for the relief of victims of violence. In 1921 she opposed the Treaty and advocated the Republican side. She finally settled in Dublin in 1922. Maud Gonne MacBride published her autobiography satirically entitled A Servant of the Queen some 15 years before her death in Dublin in 1953 at the age of 86.

She is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

She was mentioned in the Bell X1 song Alphabet Soup and The Cranberries song Yeat's Grave. Maud Gonne Maud Gonne 昴德·冈昂