Gottfried Wilhelm Flügge (March 18, 1904 – March 19, 1990) was a German engineer, and Professor of Applied Mechanics at Stanford University. He is known as recipient of the 1970 Theodore von Karman Medal in Engineering Mechanics, and the 1970 Worcester Reed Warner Medal. In 1934 Flügge published his most noted work Statik und Dynamik der Schalen in German, in 1960 translated it into English, entitled Stresses in shells. In those days this work evolved into the international standard work on shell theory.