Wilhelm

Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Pronunciation	/ˈwɪlhɛlm, ˈvɪl-/;[1] German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm]
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Germanic languages
Origin
Word/name	wille + helm (protection)
Meaning	Vehement protector
Region of origin	Germany
Other names
Related names	William, Guillaume, Willem, Vilhelm, Villem, Vilhelms, Guglielmo, Guilherme, Guillem, Guillermo

Wilhelm is a German given name, and a cognate of the English name William. The feminine form is Wilhelmine.^[2]

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 current 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