Weber

This page is about the surname. Below, there is list of people bearing this name and other uses of the word.

Weber is a surname of German origin, derived from the noun meaning "weaver". The German pronunciation is "IPA: [ˈveˌbɐ]", while in English it is more likely to be pronounced "IPA: /ˈwɛbɚ/" or "/ˈweɪbɚ/". In some cases, following migration to English-speaking countries, it has been anglicised to the English surname 'Webber' or even 'Weaver'.

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• Alfred Weber (1868-1958), German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture
• Alson Menno Weber (1910-2005), Canadian volleyball player
• Aloysia Weber (ca. 1759-1839), German soprano; second eldest sister to Constanze Weber
• Amy Weber (born 1970) is an American actress, model, film producer, and a former professional wrestling valet.
• Axel A. Weber (born 1957), German economist, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank since April 2004.
• Beda Weber (1798-1859), German professor, author, and politician
• Bruce Weber (born 1956), University of Illinois varsity men's basketball coach.
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), German composer; cousin to the four Weber sisters, Josepha, Aloysia, Constanze, and Sophie.
• Carlo Weber (born 1934), German architect
• Carlos Javier Weber (born 1966), Argentine volleyball player
• Chris Weber (born 1966), American musician
• Constanze Weber (1763-1842), German, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• David Weber, a noted classical clarinetist
• David Weber (born 1952), American science fiction author
• Dick Weber (1929-2005), American ten-pin bowler
• Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878), German physician; founder of experimental psychology
• Eugen Weber (1925-2007), French historian
• Francis J. Weber, American Catholic scholar
• Frederick Parkes Weber (1863-1962), English dermatologist; son of Hermann David Weber
• Georg F. Weber (born 1962), cancer researcher
• Heinrich Friedrich Weber (1843-1912), German physicist, sometimes confused with Heinrich Martin Weber
• Heinrich Martin Weber (1842-1913), German mathematician, sometimes confused with Heinrich Friedrich Weber
• Hermann Robert Weber (1899-1956), German zoologist, an author of a textbook in entomology.
• Joe Weber (vaudevillian) (1867-1942), part of comic team of Weber and Fields
• Joe Weber (born 1974), Firefighter/Paramedic
• John Baptiste Weber (1842 - 1926), U.S. Representative from New York.
• John Henry Weber (1779 - 1859), Danish born, American fur trader and explorer.
• John Vincent Weber (born 1952), former Republican Congressman from Minnesota.
• Jon Weber (born 1961), American jazz pianist and composer.
• Joseph Weber (1919-2000), American physicist; developed the laser and gravitational wave detector
• Karl Jakob Weber (1712-1764), Swiss architect and engineer; lead first organized excavations at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae
• Karl Ivanovich Weber (born 1841), Russian diplomat of the Russian Empire
• Kem Weber (1889-1963), German furniture and industrial designer, architect, and teacher
• Lenora Mattingly Weber, American young-adult author
• Marc Weber (born 1973), Swiss ice hockey player
• Marianne Weber, sociologist and women's rights activist
• Mary E. Weber (born 1963), American former astronaut
• Max Weber (1864-1920), sociologist
• Max Weber (artist) (1881-1961), American cubist painter
• Max Weber (politician) (1897-1974), Swiss politician; former member of the Swiss Federal Council
• Michael Weber (1966-1991), Australian musician; lead guitarist of punk/indie rock band, Seminal Rats, of Melbourne
• Otto Weber (1921-2001), Romanian politician
• Pete Weber (born 1962), American professional bowler
• Richard Weber (born 1959), Canadian Arctic and polar explorer
• Renê Weber aka Renê Carmo Kreutz Weber (born 1961), Brazilian footballer and coach
• Stefan Weber (born 1946), Austrian art teacher; lead singer and Kapellmeister of the Viennese band Drahdiwaberl
• Ted Weber (born 1951), American designer and manufacturer of loudspeakers and other musical instrument products.
• Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891), physicist and telegraphy pioneer, after whom the SI unit of magnetic flux is named
• William A. Weber (born 1918), American professor of Natural History; originator of herbarium acronyms
• Willi Weber (born 1942), German manager of formula one driver, Michael Schumacher

[edit] Places

Weber is the name of several places including:

• Weber City, Virginia
• South Weber, Utah
• Weber County, Utah
• Weber River, Utah
• Weber, New Zealand, in the region of Hawke Bay

[edit] Companies

• Weber-Stephen Products Co., an American company, known for its line of barbecue grills, known as Weber Grills.
• Weber is an American manufacturer of loudspeakers and other products for musical instrument amplifiers.
• Weber carburetor is an Italian fuel system manufacturer, owned by Magneti Marelli, see carburetor

[edit] Unit

• The weber (Wb) is the SI derived unit of magnetic flux.

[edit] Other

• Weber - Fechner law quantifies stimulus and perception
• Weber State University, Ogden, Utah

[edit] See also

• Webber (surname), an English variant
• Weaver, an English variant
• Wever, a Dutch variant

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