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Wilhelm (name)

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Pronunciation
  
German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm]

Language(s)
  
Germanic languages

Region of origin
  
Northern Europe

Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
Vehement protector

Wilhelm (name)

Word/name
  
wille + helm (protection)

Wilhelm is a German given name, and the origin of the English name William. The feminine form is Wilhelmine.

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People with the given name Wilhelm

  • 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
  • Wilhelm Boger (1906–1977), German police officer and one of the SS staff at Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895–1945), commander and staff officer in the German Army during World War II
  • Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (1974-), an American actor and film producer
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921), German Neurologist
  • Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), German Nazi politician
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954), German conductor and composer, leader of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), German anthropologist
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt, a Prussian philosopher and diplomat
  • Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), German Field Marshal
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a German mathematician and philosopher
  • Wilhelm List (1880–1971), German Field Marshal
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, a German philosopher
  • Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, a German philosopher
  • 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 Wundt (1832–1920), German doctor and psychologist

    • Fictional characters

  • Wilhelm in Xenosaga video games
  • Wilhelm, servant in manga Ludwig Kakumei
  • Noiz (Wilhelm), a character from a Japanese visual novel, DRAMAtical Murder
  • Colonel Wilhelm Klink in Hogan's Heroes
  • Wilhelm Ryan, Supreme Trimage in Amory Wars
  • Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse, Nazi general from the Wolfenstein series.
  • Wilhelm Wicki, a character in the 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds
  • Wilhelm, a cyborg from Borderlands (series).
  • Wilhelm Winter, an officer in Generation War

    • People with the surname Wilhelm

  • Bill Wilhelm (1929–2010), American college baseball coach
  • Bill de Blasio (born 1961), born Warren Wilhelm, American politician and current mayor of New York
  • Carl Wilhelm (1885-?), a German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era
  • Eugène Wilhelm (1866-1951), a French lawyer and sexologist
  • Hoyt Wilhelm (1923–2002), a major league baseball pitcher
  • Karl Wilhelm (disambiguation)
  • Kate Wilhelm (born 1928), an American writer
  • Kati Wilhelm (born 1976), a German biathlete
  • Manuel Wilhelm, a German rugby union player
  • Mary Jo Wilhelm, an Iowa politician
  • Richard Wilhelm (disambiguation)
  • William Charles John Pitcher or C. Wilhelm (1858–1925), a British costume designer of the Victorian era and Edwardian period

    • Fictional character

  • Mr. Wilhelm, a recurring minor character in Seinfeld

    • References

    Wilhelm (name) Wikipedia
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