List of Famous people named Wilhelm

Wilhelm Weinberg was a German obstetrician-gynecologist, practicing in Stuttgart, who in a 1908 paper, published in German in Jahresheft des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg, expressed the concept that would later come to be known as the Hardy–Weinberg principle.

Wilhelm Xylander was a German classical scholar and humanist. He served as rector of Heidelberg University in 1564.

Wilhelm Reiss was a German geologist and explorer born in Mannheim. Along with Angel Escobar, he was the first person to scale Cotopaxi (1872), and with vulcanologist Alphons Stübel, he was the first to ascend Tungurahua (1873).

Wilhelm Carl Gottlieb Müller was a German physicist, mathematician, and philosopher. He is best known as the successor of Arnold Sommerfeld as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich.

Wilhelm "Utz" Utermann was a Nazi German writer, journalist, screenwriter and film producer. Pseudonyms: William Utermann, William Roggersdorf and Mathias Racker.

Wilhelm Michler was a German chemist. He studied under Hermann von Fehling and Victor Meyer in Stuttgart and followed Meyer to the ETH Zurich in 1871. Michler became Professor at the ETH Zurich in 1878. He left Europe for a journey to study the natural products of South America in August 1881. He reached Brazil and conducted his research between 1882 and his death in 1889. He also became Professor at the Escola Politécnica Rio de Janeiro.