Weller

Weller is a surname. Its origin is from Old English for a well—a hole dug for water—or a spring.

People

• Archie Weller (born 1957), Australian writer
• Carl E. Weller, American, patented a soldering gun, formed the Weller Manufacturing Company
• Craig Weller (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
• Dieter Weller, American engineer
• Don Weller (musician) (1940–2020), British tenor saxophonist
• Don Weller (painter), American illustrator and painter
• Duncan Weller (born 1975), Canadian children's book author and visual artist
• F. Weller (active 1909), a trader in leather in Rundle Street, Adelaide, South Australia, around 1909
• Franz Weller (1901–1944), World War II German Army officer
• Freddy Weller (born 1947), American country music singer/songwriter
• George Weller (1907–2002), American novelist, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• George Russell Weller (1916–2010?), elderly Californian motorist who accidentally drove through a crowd, killing 10
• Hermann Weller (1878–1956), German scholar and poet
• Jerry Weller (born 1957), American politician
• Joe Weller (born 1996), British YouTuber and amateur boxer
• John Weller (disambiguation), several people
• Keith Weller (1946–2004), English footballer
• Lachie Weller (born 1966), Australian rules footballer
• Lance Weller, American novelist
• Louis Weller (1904–1979), Native-American National Football League player
• Louis Weller (footballer) (1887–1952), English footballer
• Marc Weller (born 1951), French former football goalkeeper
• Mary Louise Weller, American actress
• Michael Weller (born 1942), American playwright and screenwriter
• Michael J. Weller (born 1946), British artist and writer
• Ovington E. Weller (1862–1947), U.S. Senator from Maryland
• Paul Weller (born 1958), British singer and songwriter
• Paul Weller (footballer) (born 1975), English former footballer
• Paul Weller (politician) (born 1959), Australian politician
• Peter Weller (born 1947), American actor
• Ronny Weller (born 1969), German weightlifter
• Sam Weller (disambiguation)
• Samuel A. Weller (1851–1925), American pottery manufacturer
• Stuart Weller (1870–1927), American paleontologist and geologist
• Thomas Huckle Weller (1915–2008), American virologist and Nobel laureate
• Walter Weller (1939–2015), Austrian conductor and violinist
• William Weller (1799–1863), entrepreneur and official in Upper Canada and Canada West
• Worth Hamilton Weller (1913–1932) American herpetologist, discovered Weller's Salamander
• Weller brothers, Joseph Brooks (1802–1835), George (1805–1875) and Edward (1814–1893), English whalers, merchants and early settlers of New Zealand and Australia

Fictional characters

• Conrad/Conrart Weller, in the Japanese series of light novels Kyo Kara Maoh!
• Sam Weller (character), in the Charles Dickens novel The Pickwick Papers
• Tony Weller, father of Sam Weller in The Pickwick Papers

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