Wunsch is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Carl Wunsch (born 1941), American oceanographer
Donald Frederick Sandys Wunsch (1887–1973), New Zealand chemical engineer and factory manager Donald Wunsch, son of D.F.S. Wunsch and computer engineer Harry Wunsch (1910–1954), guard in the National Football League Ilse Gerda Wunsch (1911-2003), German-American composer Jerry Wunsch (born 1974), former American college and professional football player Johann Jakob von Wunsch (1717–1788), soldier of fortune and Prussian general of infantry, and a particularly adept commander of light infantry Kelly Wunsch (born 1972), former professional baseball pitcher Noah Wunsch (born 1970), German painter, photographer and designer
See also
Wunsch Building, in Brooklyn, New York
Needleman–Wunsch algorithm, algorithm used in bioinformatics to align protein or nucleotide sequences