Wilhelm (name)

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Wilhelm is a German given name, and the origin of the English name William. The feminine form is Wilhelmine.

People with the given name Wilhelm

• Wilhelm I, German Emperor (1797–1888), King of Prussia and German Emperor
• Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941), grandson of the former, King of Prussia and German Emperor
• Wilhelm Boger (1906–1977), German police officer and one of the SS staff at Auschwitz concentration camp
• Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895–1945), commander and staff officer in the German Army during World War II
• Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, an American actor and film producer
• Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921), German Neurologist
• Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), German Nazi politician
• Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954), German conductor and composer, leader of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
• Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), German anthropologist
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher
• Wilhelm von Humboldt, a Prussian philosopher and diplomat
• Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), German Field Marshal
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a German mathematician and philosopher
• Wilhelm List (1880–1971), German Field Marshal
• Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, a German philosopher
• Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, a German philosopher
• Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813–1833), German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor
• Wilhelm Weitling (1808–1871), early German communist or socialist
• Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928), Nobel Prize Winner in 1911 and scientist who created Wien's Displacement Law
• Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), German doctor and psychologist

Fictional characters

• Wilhelm in Xenosaga video games
• Wilhelm, servant in manga Ludwig Kakumei
• Noiz (Wilhelm), a character from a Japanese visual novel, DRAMAtical Murder
• Colonel Wilhelm Klink in Hogan's Heroes
• Wilhelm Ryan, Supreme Trimage in Amory Wars
• Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse, Nazi general from the Wolfenstein series.
• Wilhelm Wicki, a character in the 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds

People with the surname Wilhelm

• Bill Wilhelm (1929–2010), American college baseball coach
• Bill de Blasio (born 1961), born Warren Wilhelm, American politician and current mayor of New York
• Carl Wilhelm (1885-?), a German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era
• Eugène Wilhelm (1866-1951), a French lawyer and sexologist
• Hoyt Wilhelm (1923–2002), a major league baseball pitcher
• Karl Wilhelm (disambiguation)
• Kate Wilhelm (born 1928), an American writer
• Kati Wilhelm (born 1976), a German biathlete
• Manuel Wilhelm, a German rugby union player
• Mary Jo Wilhelm, an Iowa politician
• Richard Wilhelm (disambiguation)
• William Charles John Pitcher or C. Wilhelm (1858–1925), a British costume designer of the Victorian era and Edwardian period

Fictional character

• Mr. Wilhelm, a recurring minor character in Seinfeld