Wilhelm (name)
Wilhelm is a German given name, and a cognate of the English name William. The feminine form is Wilhelmine.
People with the given name
- Wilhelm I, German Emperor, King of Prussia and German Emperor
- Wilhelm II, German Emperor, grandson of the former, King of Prussia and German Emperor
- Prince Wilhelm (disambiguation)
- Wilhelm Boger, German police officer and one of the SS staff at Auschwitz concentration camp
- Wilhelm Burgdorf, Germany Army commander and staff officer during World War II
- Wilhelm Dörr (Nazi), German SS and concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
- Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist known for discovering electroactive polymers, magnetoelectric effect, and X-rays
- Wilhelm Freund, German philologist
- Wilhelm Salomon Freund, German lawyer and politician
- Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes
- Wilhelm Frimann Krog, Norwegian civil servant and politician
- Wilhelm Fuchs, German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes
- Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer, leader of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Wilhelm Gerstenmeier, German SS concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
- Wilhelm Gideon, German Nazi SS commandant of the concentration camp Gross-Rosen
- Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist
- Wilhelm Göcke, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
- Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, German neurologist
- Wilhelm Hetling, Baltic-German politician and the first mayor of Reval
- Wilhelm von Humboldt, Prussian philosopher and diplomat
- Wilhelm Imkamp, German Catholic prelate
- Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi field marshal, executed for war crimes
- Wilhelm Legler, Austrian painter
- Wilhelm List, German field marshal
- Wilhelm Niklas, German academic and politician
- Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Wilhelm Rietschel, German sculptor
- Wilhelm Ruppert, SS trooper in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp executed for war crimes
- Wilhelm Schitli, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
- Wilhelm Trapp, German Nazi policeman, executed for war crimes
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner, German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor
- Wilhelm Weitling, early German communist or socialist
- Wilhelm Wien, Nobel Prize Winner in 1911 and scientist who created Wien's Displacement Law
- Wilhelm Woutersz, Sri Lankan Burgher diplomat
- Wilhelm Wundt, German doctor and psychologist
Fictional characters with the given name
- Colonel Wilhelm Klink in Hogan's Heroes
- Wilhelm van Astrea, a character in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
- Noiz, a character from the Japanese visual novel, DRAMAtical Murder
- Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse, Nazi general from the Wolfenstein series
- Wilhelm, a character in Xenosaga video games
- Wilhelm Ryan, Supreme Trimage in The Amory Wars
- Wilhelm Wicki, a character in the 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds
- Wilhelm Winter, an officer in Generation War.
- Wilhelm, a cyborg from the Borderlands series
- Wilhelm, servant in the manga Ludwig Kakumei
- Wilhelm, crown prince of Sweden, ''Young Royals ''
People with the surname
- Anette Wilhelm, Swedish wheelchair curler
- Bill Wilhelm, American college baseball coach
- Bruce Wilhelm, American former weightlifter strongman, twice winner of the World's Strongest Man competition, in 1977 and 1978
- Carl Wilhelm, German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era
- Eugène Wilhelm, French lawyer and sexologist
- George Wilhelm, American Medal of Honor recipient
- George W. Wilhelm, American politician from Ohio
- Hellmut Wilhelm, German Sinologist
- Hoyt Wilhelm, American major league baseball pitcher
- Karl Wilhelm (disambiguation)
- Kate Wilhelm, American writer
- Kati Wilhelm, German biathlete
- Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby union player
- Mary Jo Wilhelm, American politician
- Matthew Wilhelm, American politician
- Richard Wilhelm (disambiguation)
- Stephen Wilhelm, American phytopathologist
- Thomas Wilhelm, Swedish curler and curling coach
- Warren Wilhelm, birth name of Bill de Blasio, American politician and former mayor of New York
- William Charles John Pitcher, British costume designer of the Victorian era and Edwardian period
Fictional characters with the surname
- Mr. Wilhelm, a recurring minor character in Seinfeld
- Reinhardt Wilhelm, a tank hero in Overwatch