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 Enckell (born 1990), Finnish actor
 * 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