Vilhelms is a Latvian masculine

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...

, cognate of the English name

William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

. The diminutive form of Vilhelms is

Vilis Vilis is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to: *Vilis Daudziņš (b. 1970), Latvian theater and film actor *Vilis Janums (1894–1981), Latvian military officer * Vilis Krištopans (b. 1954), Latvian politician, former Prime Minister o ...

. People bearing the name Vilhelms include: * Vilhelms Bokslafs (1858–1945), Baltic German-Latvian architect * Vilhelms Knoriņš (1890–1939), Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and publicist *

Vilhelms Purvītis Vilhelms Purvītis (3 March 1872 – 14 January 1945) was a landscape painter and educator who founded the Latvian Academy of Art and was its rector from 1919 to 1934. Biography Vilhems Purvītis was born in Zaube Parish (now Cēsis Municip ...

(1872–1945), Latvian landscape painter and educator

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