Yes, there are. They live on the steppes in Russia. No joke.

Yes, wild hamsters are still found in China, Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Siberia. They live in burrows, usually near cornfields.

Yes, wild hamsters are found on three continents-Africa, Europe and Asia.. Despite the fact that they all belong in the cricetidae family, the species that compromise the fourteen known types of hamsters vary widely, highly dependent on their native habitat. The European or Wood-Lugger hamster, Chinese-Dwarf hamster, Sand-Slider from middle-eastern deserts and the African hamster. In 1839 British zoologist George Robert Waterhouse reportedly found an elderly female hamster in Syria, naming it Cricetus auratus, the Golden Hamster. The hamster's fur was on display at the British Museum (Natural History). The Syrian Hamster was then ignored by European science for the next century. Around 1930, zoologist and Professor at the University of Jerusalem Israel Aharoni found a mother and litter of hamsters in the Syrian desert. By the time he got back to his lab, most had died or escaped. The remaining hamsters were given to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where they were successfully bred. They were a bit bigger than the ones Waterhouse found, so they were named Mesocricetus auratus, although they were probably the same species. Mesocricetus auratus is the currently accepted scientific name of Syrian Hamsters. Descendants of these hamsters were shipped to scientific labs around the world, for use as research animals. They arrived in the United Kingdom in 1931, and in 1938 reached the United States. Just about all Golden Hamsters are descended from the original litter found in Syria, except for a few that were brought into the United States by travellers who found them in the desert. A separate stock of hamsters was imported into the US in 1971, but it isn't known if any of today's North American pets are descended from them. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Syrian_hamster

yes, golden hamsters are wild and originaly from a desert scientists brought them back to study, but they bred too quickly and had more hamsters then they could handle.So they started to sell them as pets and since they were so cute pretty soon everybody had one.