# Friedrich Wilhelm

The German name Friedrich Wilhelm may refer to:

## People
### Hohenzollern kings

* Frederick William I of Prussia (1688–1740)
* Frederick William II of Prussia (1744–1797)
* Frederick William III of Prussia (1770–1840)
* Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795–1861)

### Other nobility

* Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620–1688), Duke of Prussia
* Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1663–1735), imperial Field Marshal
* Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1679–1746)
* Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700–1771)
* Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz (1702–1765), Supreme Chancellor of the United Court Chancery
* Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1715–1744)
* Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf von Wylich und Lottum (1716–1774), Prussian officer and Commandant of Berlin
* Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (1732–1796)
* Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe (1752–1814)
* Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1771–1815)
* Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785–1831)
* Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg (1792–1850), Prussian general and politician
* Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819–1904)
* Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (1820–1884)
* Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, German Crown Prince (1882–1951)
* Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern (1924–2010)
* Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe (born 1947)

### Other people

* Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799–1875), Prussian astronomer
* Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (born 1942), politician
* Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846), mathematician and astronomer
* Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755–1816), Prussian general
* Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (1759—1811), Russian general
* Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel, (1782–1852), educationist
* Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867), archaeologist
* Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (1746–1797), poet
* Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816–1877), writer
* Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich (1796–1825), naturalist and explorer
* Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner (1784–1849), pianist and composer
* Friedrich Wilhelm Kasiski (1805–1881), officer, cryptologist, and archaeologist
* Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (1840–1910), physicist
* Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890–1947), Nazi politician
* Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894–1945), Nazi officer
* Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–1848?), explorer
* Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888–1931), silent film director
* Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900), philologist and philosopher
* Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), cooperative leader
* Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806–1876), scholar
* Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow (1821–1878), Swiss soldier
* Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789–1862), painter
* Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), philosopher
* Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer (1802–1866), artist
* Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (1810–1856), classicist
* Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721–1773), Prussian cavalry general
* Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), Prussian officer
* Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch (1784–1860), educationist
* Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663–1712), composer

## Other uses

* SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, Imperial German ship
* Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, an older name of the Humboldt University of Berlin
* Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn am Rhein, the German name of the University of Bonn