Sade Sade can mean: Sade Adu, the popular female singer, or the eponymous group she fronts, Sade (band). The Marquis de Sade, the eighteenth century writer and libertine. Sade (2000), a French film starring Daniel Auteuil as the Marquis de Sade. Sade Baderinwa, the WABC-TV Eyewitness News reporter and anchor.