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 (c. 640–703), 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 Waibel Jr. (born 1970), Austrian sport shooter
• Wolfram Waibel Sr. (1947–2023), Austrian sport shooter
• Wolfram Saenger (born 1939), German biochemist and crystallographer
• Wolfram Sievers (1905-1948), German Holocaust perpetrator and manager of the Ahnenerbe, executed for war crimes
• Wolfram Wuttke (1961–2015), German footballer
• Wolfram Eckert, Austrian disc jockey

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

• All pages with titles containing Wolfram
• Wolfram & Hart, a fictional law firm in the 1999 television series Angel