Hermann Wilbrand (22 May 1851 – 17 September 1935) was a German ophthalmologist born in Giessen.
[2] His older brother Julius Wilbrand was a chemist who discovered TNT and his grandfather was physician.
In 1875, he earned his doctorate at the University of Strassburg, and afterwards was an assistant to Ludwig Laqueur (1839-1909) at Strassburg and to Carl Friedrich Richard Förster (1825-1902) at Breslau.
Later he moved to Hamburg, where he became head of the department of ophthalmology at Allgemeines Hospital in 1905.
Wilbrand specialized in the field of neuro-ophthalmology and carried out extensive research involving the pathology and physiology of the eye.