Wichmann is a German surname.
Geographical distribution As of 2014, 78.7% of all known bearers of the surname Wichmann were residents of Germany (frequency 1:3,983), 8.0% of the United States (1:177,345), 3.6% of Denmark (1:6,135), 3.5% of South Africa (1:59,575) and 1.3% of Brazil (1:631,210).
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:3,983) in the following states: Bremen (1:1,107) Lower Saxony (1:1,538) Schleswig-Holstein (1:1,639) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:1,839) Hamburg (1:1,846) Brandenburg (1:2,088) Saxony-Anhalt (1:2,251)
In Denmark, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:6,135) in the following regions:Wichmann surname distribution Capital Region of Denmark (1:4,202) Region Zealand (1:4,575) Region of Southern Denmark (1:5,388)
People Wichmann Achim Krause-Wichmann (1930–2000), German rower Amalie Wichmann (born 1995), Danish handball player C. E. A. Wichmann (1851–1927), German geologist and mineralogist Clara Wichmann (1885–1922), German–Dutch lawyer, writer, anarcho-syndicalist, feminist and atheist Cody Wichmann (born 1992), American football player Erich Wichmann-Harbeck (1900–1976), Chilean sailor Eyvind Wichmann (1928–2019), US-American physicist Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichmann (1901–1974), German sprinter Hans Wichmann (1905–1981), German middle-distance runner Joanna Wichmann (1905–1985), German-born textile artist Kanchi Wichmann (born 1974), British filmmaker Kristoffer Wichmann (born 1981), Danish association football manager and player Kurt-Werner Wichmann (1949–1993), German serial killer responsible for the Göhrde Murders Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann (1788–1859), German sculptor Mathias Wichmann (born 1991), Danish footballer Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann (1821–1859), German astronomer Siegfried Wichmann (1921–2015), German art historian Søren Wichmann (born 1964), Danish linguist Tamás Wichmann (1948–2020), Hungarian sprint canoer Valery Wichman, LGBT rights activist from the Cook Islands Yrjö Wichmann (1868–1932), Finnish linguist
Wichman Duane Wichman-Evans Jr. (born 2003), New Zealand actor Vaine Wichman, Cook Islands politician and development economist
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