Wolfram is both a given name and surname of Germanic origin. It is composed as wolf ‘wolf’ + hrafn ‘raven’, important in Germanic mythology.
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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 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