Wolfram (name)

Wolfram is both a given name and surname of Germanic origin. It is composed as wolf ‘wolf’ + hrafn ‘raven’, important in Germanic mythology.

Given name

• Wulfram of Sens (), Merovingian saint
• Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170–1220), German writer
• Wolfram von Richthofen (1895–1945), German field marshal general of the Luftwaffe during World War II
• Wolfram Bode (1942–2025), German biochemist
• Wolfram Eckert (born 1983), Austrian disc jockey
• Wolfram Saenger (1939–2026), German biochemist and crystallographer
• Wolfram Setz (1941–2023), German historian, editor, translator, and essayist
• Wolfram Sievers (1905–1948), German Holocaust perpetrator and manager of the Ahnenerbe, executed for war crimes
• Wolfram Waibel Jr. (born 1970), Austrian sport shooter
• Wolfram Waibel Sr. (1947–2023), Austrian sport shooter
• Wolfram Weimer (born 1964), German publisher and journalist, German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (since 2025)
• Wolfram Wuttke (1961–2015), German footballer

Surname

• Conrad Wolfram (born 1970), British technologist and businessman, brother of Stephen Wolfram
• Donald Justin Wolfram (1919–2003), American religious leader
• Gary L. Wolfram, American economist
• Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), Austrian historian
• Hugo Wolfram (1925–2015), an English businessman and novelist
• Joy Wolfram (born 1989), Finnish nanoscientist
• Joseph Maria Wolfram (1789–1839), Bohemian composer and politician
• Karol Wolfram (1899–1965), Polish evangelical priest and educator
• Maria Wolfram (born 1961), Finnish visual artist
• Martin Wolfram (born 1992), German diver
• Ralf-Reimar Wolfram (1912–1945), German sailor
• Stephen Wolfram (born 1959), British-American computer scientist and entrepreneur
• Sybil Wolfram (1931–1993), a philosopher, mother of Stephen
• Walt Wolfram (born 1941), American sociolinguist and former president of the Linguistic Society of America

Fictional

• Wolfram von Bielefeld, a character in Kyo Kara Maoh!, a series of light novels

See also

• Wolfram & Hart, a fictional law firm in the 1999 television series Angel

References