Wolfram is both a given name and surname of Germanic origin. It is composed as wolf ‘wolf’ + hrafn ‘raven’, important in Germanic mythology. Dictionary of American Family Names, as cited by ancestry.som

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 Grant Wolfram (born 1996), American baseball player 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

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