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. [1]
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 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
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, 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
- 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 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
References
- Dictionary of American Family Names, as cited by ancestry.som
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