Willem
Willem is a Dutch and Low German variant of the male given name Wilhelm .
Name bearer
First name
- Willem Adelaar (* 1948), Dutch linguist
- Willem Barents (around 1550–1597), Dutch navigator and explorer
- Willem Boerdam (1883–1966), Dutch football player
- Willem Buytewech (1591 / 1592–1624), Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher
- Willem Hendrik Crouwel (1928–2019), Dutch graphic designer and university professor
- Willem Dafoe (* 1955), American actor
- Willem Frederik Donath (1889–1957), Dutch physiologist and hygienist
- Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), Dutch doctor
- Willem Hesselink (1878–1973), Dutch football player
- Willem Jansz alias "Willem Janssen" (around 1570–1630), Dutch navigator, official discoverer of Australia
- Willem Kolff (1911–2009), Dutch internist
- Willem Karel Mertens (1893–1945), Dutch doctor and hygienist
- Willem Johan Herman Mulier (1865–1954), Dutch sports official and journalist
- Willem-Alexander (* 1967), King of the Netherlands
- Willem Schuth (* 1954), Dutch-German politician, MEP
- Willem Slijkhuis (1923–2003), Dutch medium and long-distance runner
- Willem van de Velde the Elder (~ 1611–1693), Dutch painter
- Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707), Dutch painter
- Willem Vester (1824–1895), Dutch landscape and animal painter
stage name
- Wilken F. Dincklage (1942–1994), German musician, radio presenter and actor
- Bernard Willem Holtrop (* 1941), Dutch-French draftsman and caricaturist
- Christophe Willem (actually Christophe Durier ; * 1983), French singer
variants
Short forms
family name
Others
- “De Willem”, a theater in Papendrecht, the Netherlands
Nicknames of railway lines
- Haller Willem from Osnabrück to Bielefeld
- Zorger Willem from Ellrich to Zorge
- Wallücker Willem , former small train in North Rhine-Westphalia