List of Famous people named Wilhelm

Baron Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler was a German theologian and politician who served as Bishop of Mainz. His social teachings became influential during the papacy of Leo XIII and his encyclical Rerum novarum.

Wilhelm von Rümann was a prominent German sculptor, based in Munich.

Wilhelm Trübner was a German realist painter of the circle of Wilhelm Leibl.

Wilhelm Höcker was a German politician and former Minister-President of Mecklenburg.

Ritter Karl Wilhelm von Gümbel, German geologist, was born at Dannenfels, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, and is known chiefly by his researches on the geology of Bavaria. He was the brother of bryologist Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel (1812–1858).

Andreas Friedrich Wilhelm von Hanno was a German-born Norwegian architect, sculptor and painter. He was among the leading architects in Norway during the middle of the 1800s.

Wilhelm Johann Schlenk was a German chemist. He was born in Munich and also studied chemistry there. Schlenk succeeded Emil Fischer at the University of Berlin in 1919.

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold was a German physicist and meteorologist born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria. He is best known for discovering the Bezold effect and the Bezold–Brücke shift.