title: Hilmar
text: # Hilmar
  
  Hilmar is an Germanic and Nordic given name, meaning famous/notorious fighter/noble/protector.
  
  Hilmar may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Hilmar, California
     * Hilmar Cheese Company, cheese and whey products manufacturer headquartered in Hilmar, California
  * Hilmar-Irwin, census-designated place (CDP) in Merced County, California, United States
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920–1989), Danish politician
  * Hilmar Björnsson (born 1969), Icelandic football (soccer) player
  * Hilmar Duerbeck (1948–2012), German astronomer
  * Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (born 1958), musician and art director
  * Hilmar Hoffmann (1925–2018), German cultural worker and functionary
  * Hilmar Kabas (born 1942), Austrian politician
  * Hilmar Meincke Krohg (1776–1851), Norwegian politician
  * Hilmar Kopper (1935–2021), German banker and former Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bank
  * Hilmar Moore (1920–2012), American rancher and the mayor of Richmond, Texas
  * Hilmar Myhra (1915–2013), Norwegian ski jumper
  * Hilmar Reksten (1897–1980), Norwegian shipping magnate
  * Hilmar Martinus Strøm (1817–?), Norwegian politician
  * Hilmar Thate (1931–2016), German actor
  * Hilmar Wäckerle (1899–1941), German soldier in the German Imperial Army and the Waffen-SS a
  * Hilmar Weilandt (born 1966), German football player
  * Hilmar Wictorin (1894–1964), Swedish water polo player and Olympian
  * Hilmar Zahn (1919–2008), highly decorated paratrooper and captain in the Nazi German army
  
  ### Middle name
  
  * Geir Hilmar Haarde (born 1951), Icelandic politician and former Prime Minister
  * Jobst-Hilmar von Bose (1897–1949), decorated military in the German Empire and in nazi Germany
  * Paul Hilmar Jensen (1930–2004), Norwegian philatelist
  
  ### Family name
  
  * Ernst Hilmar (1938–2016), Austrian librarian, editor, and musicologist
  * Gustav Hilmar (1891–1967), Czechoslovak film actor
  