Wilhelm Meise (September 12, 1901 – August 24, 2002) was a German ornithologist. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1924-1928, where he did his Ph.D. dissertation on the distribution of the carrion crow and the hooded crow, and hybridization between them under the supervision of Professor Erwin Stresemann, (1889-1972). . He also analysed taxonomic and historic relationships between the house sparrow and the Spanish sparrow in particular the status of the "Italian sparrow".