Wolfgang Iser (22 July 1926 – 24 January 2007) was a German literary scholar.

Wolfgang Jeschke was a German science fiction author and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction.

Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach was a German critic and writer.

Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen was a German novelist and one of the best known German authors of the postwar period.

Wolfgang Menzel, German poet, critic and literary historian, was born at Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) in Silesia.

Wolfgang Mieder is a retired professor of German and folklore who taught for 50 years at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont, USA. He is a graduate of Olivet College (BA), the University of Michigan (MA), and Michigan State University (PhD). He has been a guest speaker at the University of Freiburg in Germany, the country where he was born.

Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter was a German novelist and poet. He settled in Cologne, and became a popular poet, novelist, and chronicler of the Rhine region.

Wolfgang Ratke (also Wolfgangus Ratichius or Wolfgang Ratich) (18 October 1571 – 27 April 1635) was a German educational reformer.

Wolfgang Schivelbusch was a German scholar of cultural studies, historian, and author.

Wolfgang Schluchter is a German sociologist and, as of 2006, professor emeritus at Heidelberg University. Schluchter is recognized as a leading sociologist of religion and an authority on the history of sociological theory, in particular on the work of Max Weber. He was one of the editors of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe, alongside Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Johannes Winckelmann. Gangolf Hübinger succeeded Mommsen after he died in 2004. The project was completed in June 2020, with forty-seven volumes. Schluchter was visiting professor at several universities worldwide, including the University of Pittsburgh, The New School for Social Research, and the University of California, Berkeley.