The name Zellweger is a noble lineage of the

Appenzell Appenzell is a historic canton in the northeast of Switzerland, and entirely surrounded by the canton of St. Gallen. Appenzell became independent of the Abbey of Saint Gall in 1403 and entered a league with the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1411, ...

area, Switzerland, and may refer to: People with the surname Zellweger: *

Hans Zellweger Hans Ulrich Zellweger (19 June 1909, in Lugano – 24 February 1990, in Iowa City, Iowa) was a Swiss-American pediatrician known for his research on Zellweger syndrome.P. Bowen, C. S. Lee, H. Zellweger, R. Lindenberg: ''A familial syndrome of mul ...

(1909–1990), Swiss-American pediatrician and namesake of Zellweger syndrome *

Marc Zellweger Marc Zellweger (born 17 October 1973) is a Swiss former professional football defender. He spent his most playing career at FC St. Gallen Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879, commonly known as St. Gallen, is a Swiss professional football club bas ...

(born 1973), Swiss football defender *

Renée Zellweger Renée Kathleen Zellweger (; born April 25, 1969) is an American actress. The recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, she was one of the world's highest-paid ...

(born 1969), Academy Award-winning American film actress *

Shea Zellweger Shea Zellweger (September 7, 1925 – August 7, 2022) was an American semiotician who served as Chair of the Psychology Department at the University of Mount Union from 1969 to 1992. Zellweger’s lifetime achievements and academic contributions to ...

(1925–2022), American educator Furthermore, the name Zellweger may refer to: *

Zellweger off-peak Zellweger is the brand name of an electric switching device also known as a Ripple Control Receiver used to load management, control off-peak electrical loads such as water heaters by switching these loads OFF over peak energy use times of the day ...

, the brand-name of an electric switching device *

Zellweger syndrome Zellweger syndrome is a rare congenital disorder characterized by the reduction or absence of functional peroxisomes in the cells of an individual. It is one of a family of disorders called Zellweger spectrum disorders which are leukodystrophie ...

, a rare congenital disorder *

Zellweger spectrum disorders Zellweger spectrum disorders are a group of rare disorders that create the same disease process. The subdivisions of this spectrum are hyperpipecolic acidemia, infantile Refsum disease, neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy, and Zellweger syndrome. It can ...

, a group of rare disorders

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