Willibald (name)
Willibald (also Bilibald and Wilibald ) is an Old Saxon male given name and means something like "The one equipped with bold determination". The name is rarely found in the German-speaking area today and is most common in southern Germany . Willi is usually used as a short form .
People named willibald
middle Ages
- Willibald von Eichstätt (around 700–787), missionary in Germany and first bishop of Eichstätt
- Willibald von Mainz (8th century), priest, author of the Vita Sancti Bonifatii
First name
- Willibald Alexis (1798–1871), German writer
- Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784–1842), Austrian botanist and entomologist
- Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
- Willibald Dörfler (* 1944), Austrian mathematician
- Willibald Eser (1933-2005), German screenwriter
- Willibald Feuerlein (1781–1850), German lawyer, from 1820 to 1833 Stuttgart city school
- Willibald Gebhardt (1861–1921), German sports official and co-founder of the Olympic movement in Germany
- Willibald Guggenmos (born 1957), German organist and church musician
- Wilibald Gurlitt (1889–1963), German musicologist
- Willibald Heger (1919–2007), commandant of the Loborgrad concentration camp
- Willibald Hilf (1931–2004), German broadcast director
- Willibald Imhoff (1519–1580), Nuremberg patrician, art collector, merchant and banker
- Willibald Jentschke (1911–2002), experimental nuclear and particle physicist from Austria
- Willibald Kaehler (1866–1938), German conductor and composer
- Willibald Krain (1886–1945), German painter, draftsman and illustrator
- Willibald Kreß (1906–1989), German football player and coach
- Willibald Lichtenheldt (1901–1980), German engineer and university professor
- Willibald Liehr (1941–2011), Austrian lawyer, member of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Austria
- Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg (1856–1937), German history and genre painter, art educator and art historian
- Willibald Mannes (* 1925), German master carpenter, architect and author
- Willibald Nagel (1870–1911), German sensory physiologist
- Willibald Pahr (* 1930), Austrian politician, diplomat and lawyer
- Willibald Pirckheimer (1470–1530), Nuremberg humanist and universal scholar
- Willibald Plöchl (1907–1984), Austrian lawyer and university professor
- Willibald Pschyrembel (1901–1987), German physician (gynecologist), author and university professor
- Willibald Ruttensteiner (* 1962), Austrian football official and coach
- Willibald Sauerländer (1924–2018), German art historian and art critic
- Wilibald von Schulenburg (1847–1934), German landscape painter and folklorist
- Wilibald Winkler (1933–2010), Polish politician (AWS) and voivode of Silesia
- Willibald Winkler (1914–1984 (?)), German jazz and entertainment musician and editor of music collections
- Willibald Wolfsteiner (1855–1942), German Benedictine and abbot of the Ettal monastery
Middle name
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), German composer
- Josef Willibald Michl (1745–1816), German composer
As a surname
- Elisabeth Willibald (* 1996), German ski racer