The German name Friedrich Wilhelm usually refers to several monarchs of the Hohenzollern dynasty:
- Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620-1688)
- Frederick William I (1688-1740), King in Prussia
- Frederick William II (1744-1797), King of Prussia
- Frederick William III (1770-1840), King of Prussia
- Frederick William IV (1795-1861), King of Prussia
Other people with the name Friedrich Wilhelm include:
- Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1771-1815)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799-1875), Prussian astronomer
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (born 1942), politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846), mathematician and astronomer
- Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg (1792-1850), Prussian general and politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755-1816), Prussian general
- Friedrich Wilhelm Buxhoeveden (1759-1811), Russian general
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (Friedrich Fröbel)(1782 – 1852), educationist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (1795-1867), archaeologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (1746-1797), poet
- Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816-1877), writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich (1796-1825), naturalist and explorer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner (1784-1849), pianist and composer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kasiski (1805-1881), officer, cryptologist, and archaeologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (1840-1910), physicist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890-1947), Nazi politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger (1894-1945), Nazi officer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848?), explorer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931), silent film director
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), philologist and philosopher
- Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-1888), cooperative leader
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806-1876), scholar
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow (1821-1878), Swiss soldier
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789-1862), painter
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), philosopher
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer (1802-1866), artist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (1810-1856), classicist
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721-1773), Prussian cavalry general
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730-1794), Prussian officer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch (1784-1860), educationist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau (1663-1712), composer
- Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (1882-1951)
- Friedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819-1904)
- Wilhelm Friedrich (Brandenburg-Ansbach), brother of Caroline of Ansbach
Other uses:
- SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, Imperial German ship
- Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, an older name of the Humboldt University of Berlin
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn am Rhein, the German name of the University of Bonn
Famous quotes containing the words friedrich and/or wilhelm:
“The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world—to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)