Wolfgang

Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany and Austria. Its earliest known bearer was a tenth century saint. The name is a combination of the Old High German word wulf, meaning "wolf" and gang, meaning "path, journey". Grimm (Teutonic Mythology p. 1093) interpreted the name as that of a hero in front of whom walks the "wolf of victory". A Latin gloss by Arnoldus Emmeramensis interprets the name as Lupambulus.

Notable people called "Wolfgang" include:

• Wolfgang of Regensburg, Bavarian bishop and Catholic saint (d. 994)
• Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1492–1566)
• Wolfgang Bauer, name of at least three notable people
• Wolfgang Bolyai (1775–1856), Hungarian mathematician
• Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright
• Wolfgang Flür, German musician, member of Kraftwerk
• Wolfgang Gartner, an Electro House DJ
• Wolfgang Herold, producer
• Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist
• Wolfgang Klietmann, German pathologist, microbiologist, and businessman
• Wolfgang Kosack, German Egyptologist
• Wolfgang Kuck, German volleyball player
• Wolfgang Langewiesche, German aviation expert and author
• Wolfgang Leonhard, German professor and expert on communism
• Wolfgang Loitzl, Austrian ski jumper
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austro-German composer
• Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist
• Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
• Wolfgang Preiss, German actor
• Wolfgang Puck, American chef
• Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian criminal
• Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator of classic Disney films
• Wolfgang Schmidt, German discus thrower
• Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violinist) (1915–2002), Austrian violinist
• Wolfgang Schneiderhan (general) (born 1946), German general
• Wolfgang Tillmans, German fine-art photographer and artist
• Wolfgang Van Halen, American Musician and member of Van Halen
• Wolfgang von Kempelen, Hungarian author and inventor
• Wolfgang von Leyden, German philosopher
• Wolfgang Wagner (1919–2010), German opera director
• Wolfgang Weichselbaumer, hurdy-gurdy craftsman
• Wolfgang Werlé, German murderer
• Wolfgang Weyrauch, German writer and playwright
• Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, 16th-century Duke of Zweibrücken