Wenche Barth Eide (born 3 January 1935 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian human rights scholar with base in Law and Social Science Research, daughter of civil engineer Jacob Bøckmann Barth (1898-1974) and Solveig Herstad (1900-1987), married October 10, 1959 to human rights scholar Asbjørn Eide (b.
1933), and the mother of former Norwegian Minister of Defence (2011–12) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-13) Espen Barth Eide.