Wenzel

Wenzel is a male given name (long version Wenzeslaus) as the German and Old English form of the Czech given name Václav or Venceslav,¹² meaning "praised with glory". Variations are Вячеслав (Ukrainian and Russian), Vencel (Hungarian), Wacław, Więcław, Wiesław (Polish), Venceslas/Wenceslas (French), Venceslao (Italian), Venceslau (Portuguese), Wenceslao (Spanish).

• Wenzel Jamnitzer (ca. 1507–1585), Austrian-German etcher and goldsmith
• Wenzel, Archduke of Austria (1561–1578), Austrian prince and Grand Prior of the Order of Malta
• Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz (1711–1794), Austrian statesman
• Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718–1763), Austrian composer
• Wenzel Parler (1333–1399), German-Bohemian architect
• Wenzel Pichl (1741–1805), Czech composer
• Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (1773–1830), Bohemian composer
• Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773–1859), German-Austrian politician and statesman
• Wolfgang Wenzel von Haffner (1806–1892), Norwegian Minister of the Navy
• Wenzel Storch (born 1961), German film director and producer
• Josef Wenzel, Prince of Liechtenstein (1696–1772), prince of Liechtenstein
• Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein (born 1995), oldest child of Prince Alois of Liechtenstein and his wife Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria
• Franz Wenzel, Graf von Kaunitz-Rietberg, (1742–1825), Austrian general, son of Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz
• Wenzel Johann Tomaschek (1774–1850), Bohemian composer

• Andreas Wenzel (born 1958), former Alpine skier from Liechtenstein
• Brian Wenzel (1929–2024), Australian character actor
• Carl Friedrich Wenzel (ca. 1740–1793), German chemist and metallurgist
• Carmen Wenzel (born 1931) Mexican sculptor and painter
• Christian Helmut Wenzel, German philosopher
• David Wenzel (born 1950), American illustrator and children's book artist
• Eberhard Wenzel (1950–2001), German-born public health researcher
• Hanni Wenzel (born 1956), German-born alpine skier from Liechtenstein
• Hans-Georg Wenzel (1949–1999), geodesist, geophysicist and university lecturer
• Joan Wenzel (born 1953), Canadian middle-distance runner
• Johann Wenzel (1902–1969), GRU spy in WWII Germany, radio specialist
• Jörn Wenzel (born 2004), German bobsledder
• Joseph W. Wenzel (1940–2021), American argumentation and rhetorical scholar
• Jule Wenzel (born 1990), German politician
• Leopold Wenzel or Léopold de Wenzel (1847–1923), Italian conductor and composer
• Petra Wenzel (born 1961), Swiss-born alpine skier from Liechtenstein
• Ramona Wenzel (born 1963), German diver
• Rene Wenzel, American cycling coach
• Sally Wenzel, American pulmonologist
• Tanja Wenzel (born 1978), German actress