List of Famous people named Wolfgang

Name Wolfgang is among the most common names in Germany, Austria. Here are some famous Wolfgangs:

Wolfgang Hoppe

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Hoppe
Born on November 14, 1957 (age 68)
Born in Germany, Thuringia
Height 181 cm | 5'11

Wolfgang Hoppe is an East German former decathlete, bob pilot and 36-time international medal winner who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won six medals with two golds, three silvers, and one bronze (1994).

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Wolfgang Uhlmann

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Uhlmann
Born on March 29, 1935
Died on August 24, 2020 (aged 85)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Wolfgang Uhlmann was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful chess player, reaching the 1971 Candidates Tournament. During his career, Uhlmann played many of the top players of the time and won the East Germany Chess Championships 11 times. Uhlmann continued to play chess into his later years, before dying at the age of 85 in Dresden.

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Wolfgang Frank

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Frank
Born on February 21, 1951
Died on September 7, 2013 (aged 62)
Height 172 cm | 5'8

Wolfgang Frank was a German football manager and player.

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Wolfgang Feiersinger

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Feiersinger
Born on January 30, 1965 (age 61)
Born in Austria, Salzburg
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Wolfgang Feiersinger is a retired Austrian footballer who played as a defender.

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Wolfgang Solz

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Solz
Born on February 12, 1940
Died on March 24, 2017 (aged 77)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Wolfgang Solz was a German professional football winger.

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Wolfgang Neuss

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Neuss
Born on December 23, 1923
Died on May 5, 1989 (aged 65)

Wolfgang Neuss was a German actor and Kabarett artist. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he also became famous for his political engagement, first for the SPD, then for the extra-parliamentary opposition, APO. He died in 1989 from a longtime cancer.

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Wolfgang Hofmann

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Hofmann
Born on March 30, 1941
Died on March 12, 2020 (aged 78)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Wolfgang Hofmann was a West German judoka who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, where he won the silver medal in the middleweight class representing the United Team of Germany.

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Wolfgang Suschitzky

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Suschitzky
Born on August 29, 1912
Died on October 7, 2016 (aged 104)
Born in Austria

Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC, was a documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film Get Carter.

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Wolfgang Achtner

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Achtner
Born on January 1, 1957
Died on October 31, 2017 (aged 60)

Wolfgang Achtner played a key role as an ambassador for the science-and-religion dialogue in Germany.

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Wolfgang Funkel

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Funkel
Born on August 10, 1958 (age 67)
Height 192 cm | 6'4

Wolfgang Funkel is a German former footballer.

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