# 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 (1797–1888), King of Prussia and German Emperor
* Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941), grandson of the former, King of Prussia and German Emperor
* Prince Wilhelm (disambiguation)
* Wilhelm Boger (1906–1977), German police officer and one of the SS staff at Auschwitz concentration camp
* Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895–1945), Germany Army commander and staff officer during World War II
* Wilhelm Dörr (Nazi) (1921–1945), German SS and concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
* Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), German physicist known for discovering electroactive polymers, magnetoelectric effect, and X-rays
* Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes
* Wilhelm Frimann Krog (1767–1825), Norwegian civil servant and politician
* Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947), German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes
* Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954), German conductor and composer, leader of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
* Wilhelm Gerstenmeier (1908–1944), German SS concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
* Wilhelm Gideon (1898–1977), German Nazi SS commandant of the concentration camp Gross-Rosen
* Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), German anthropologist
* Wilhelm Göcke (1898–1944), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
* Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921), German neurologist
* Wilhelm Hetling (1740–1798), Baltic-German politician and the first mayor of Reval (modern-day Tallinn)
* Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), Prussian philosopher and diplomat
* Wilhelm Imkamp (born 1951), German Catholic prelate
* Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), German Nazi field marshal, executed for war crimes
* Wilhelm Legler (1875–1951), Austrian painter
* Wilhelm List (1880–1971), German field marshal
* Wilhelm Niklas (1887–1957), German academic and politician
* Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
* Wilhelm Rietschel (1911–1941), German sculptor
* Wilhelm Ruppert (1905–1946), SS trooper in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp executed for war crimes
* Wilhelm Schitli (1912–1945 (missing)), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
* Wilhelm Trapp (1889–1948), German Nazi policeman, executed for war crimes
* Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813–1883), 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 Woutersz (1939–2003), Sri Lankan Burgher diplomat
* Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), 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 (Wilhelm), 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 (born 1972), Swedish wheelchair curler
* Bill Wilhelm (1929–2010), American college baseball coach
* Bruce Wilhelm (born 1945), American former weightlifter strongman, twice winner of the World's Strongest Man competition, in 1977 and 1978
* Carl Wilhelm (1885–1936), German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era
* Eugène Wilhelm (1866–1951), French lawyer and sexologist
* George Wilhelm (1829–1920), American Medal of Honor recipient
* George W. Wilhelm (1847–1902), American politician from Ohio
* Hellmut Wilhelm (1905–1990), German Sinologist
* Hoyt Wilhelm (1923–2002), American major league baseball pitcher
* Karl Wilhelm (disambiguation)
* Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018), American writer
* Kati Wilhelm (born 1976), German biathlete
* Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby union player
* Mary Jo Wilhelm, American politician
* Matthew Wilhelm, American politician
* Richard Wilhelm (disambiguation)
* Stephen Wilhelm (1919–2002), American phytopathologist
* Thomas Wilhelm (born 1971), Swedish curler and curling coach
* Warren Wilhelm, birth name of Bill de Blasio (born 1961), American politician and former mayor of New York
* William Charles John Pitcher (1858–1925), 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