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Archie Weller Archie Weller (born 13 July 1957) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and screen plays. Early life Archie Weller was born in Subiaco, Western Australia, and grew up on a farm, ''Wonnenup'', near Cranbrook in the Great Southern r ...

(born 1957), Australian writer * Craig Weller (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player *

Dieter Weller Dieter Weller is a computer engineer from HGST, a company owned by Western Digital of San Jose, California. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for his contributions to heat-assisted magneti ...

, American engineer *

Don Weller (musician) Donald Arthur Albert Weller (19 December 1940 – 30 May 2020) was an English jazz musician, tenor saxophonist, and composer. Career Don Weller began learning clarinet at the age of 14, and was classically educated on it for four or five years, ...

(born 1940), British tenor saxophonist *

Don Weller (painter) Don Weller is an American illustrator and painter. Background Weller grew up in Pullman, Washington and loved drawing from an early age. He started at Washington State University in their veterinary pre-med program but switched to art after two ...

, American illustrator and painter * Duncan Weller (born 1975), children's book author and visual artist *

Franz Weller The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The decoration was awarded for a wide range of r ...

(1901–1944), World War II German Army officer *

Freddy Weller Wilton Frederick "Freddy" Weller (born September 9, 1947) is an American country music artist. He recorded for Columbia Records between 1969 and 1980. He had his highest charted single in 1969 with his debut release, "Games People Play". Musi ...

(born 1947), American country music singer/songwriter *

George Weller George Anthony Weller (July 13, 1907 – December 19, 2002) was an American novelist, playwright, and journalist for ''The New York Times'' and ''Chicago Daily News''. He won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize as a ''Daily News'' war correspondent. Weller' ...

(1907–2002), American novelist, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist *

George Russell Weller On the afternoon of July 16, 2003, George Weller, then age 86, drove his 1992 Buick LeSabre westbound down Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, California, toward the city's popular Third Street Promenade. The last few blocks of the street, before it e ...

(1916–2010?), elderly Californian motorist who accidentally drove through a crowd, killing 10 * Hermann Weller (1878–1956), German scholar and poet *

Jerry Weller Gerald Cameron Weller (born July 7, 1957) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing . As of 2015, Weller is the managing principal of New World Group Public Affairs, a lobbying grou ...

(born 1957), American politician * John Weller (disambiguation) *

Keith Weller Keith may refer to: People and fictional characters * Keith (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters * Keith (surname) * Keith (singer), American singer James Keefer (born 1949) * Baron Keith, a line of Scottish barons ...

(1946–2004), English footballer *

Lachie Weller Lachlan Weller (born 23 February 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Fremantle Football Club from 2015 to 2017. Pers ...

(born 1966), Australian rules footballer *

Lance Weller The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Arm ...

, American novelist *

Louis Weller Louis "Rabbit" Weller (March 2, 1904 – April 17, 1979) was a professional football halfback with the Boston Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) in 1933. He was a Native American member of the Caddo tribe. He attended Haskell I ...

(1904–1979), Native-American National Football League player *

Louis Weller (footballer) Louis Charles Weller (7 May 1887 – September 1951) was an English professional footballer who played as a left back in the Football League for Everton and Chesterfield Town. Personal life Weller served as a gunner in the Motor Machine Gun ...

(1887–1952), English footballer *

Marc Weller Marc Weller (born 27 October 1951 in Mutzig) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was part of the SC Bastia Sporting Club Bastiais ( co, Sporting Club di Bastia, commonly referred to as SC Bastia or si ...

(born 1951), French former football goalkeeper *

Mary Louise Weller Mary Louise Weller (born September 1, 1946) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Mandy Pepperidge in the popular 1978 film ''Animal House''. She has also guest-starred in such television series as ''Starsky & Hutch' ...

, American actress *

Michael Weller Michael Weller (born September 26, 1942) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screen writer. His plays include ''Moonchildren'', ''Loose Ends'', ''Spoils of War'' and ''Fifty Words''. His screenplays include ''Ragtime'', for which he was nominate ...

(born 1942), American playwright and screenwriter *

Michael J. Weller Michael John Weller (South London, 1946) is a British underground comics artist, political writer, cartoonist, activist and album-cover designer. Weller designed the sleeve for the United States release of David Bowie's '' The Man Who Sold th ...

(born 1946), British artist and writer *

Ovington E. Weller Ovington Eugene Weller (January 23, 1862 – January 5, 1947) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the Maryland, State of Maryland from 1921 to 1927. Early life Weller was born in Rei ...

(1862–1947), U.S. Senator from Maryland *

Paul Weller Paul John Weller (born John William Weller; 25 May 1958) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame with the punk rock/ new wave/mod revival band the Jam (1972–1982). He had further success with the blue-eyed soul m ...

(born 1958), British singer and songwriter *

Paul Weller (footballer) Paul Anthony Weller (born 6 March 1975) is an English former professional footballer. Born in Brighton, after playing at Worthing, he went on to play 250 matches in the Football League for Burnley and Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town ...

(born 1975), English former footballer *

Paul Weller (politician) Paul Weller (born 3 April 1959) is an Australian politician and was the Nationals member for Rodney in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2014. Weller is a former dairy farmer from Lockington in Northern Victoria. Before enter ...

(born 1959), Australian politician *

Peter Weller Peter Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, television director, and art historian. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including ''RoboCop'' (1987) and its sequel ''RoboCop 2'' (1990), in whic ...

(born 1947), American actor *

Ronny Weller Ronny Weller (born 22 July 1969 in Oelsnitz, Saxony) is a German weightlifter who competed for East Germany and later for Germany. During the 1990s, he was three times world champion, and broke world records 11 times. He participated in t ...

(born 1969), German weightlifter *

Sam Weller (disambiguation) Sam Weller may refer to: * Sam Weller (character), fictional character in ''The Pickwick Papers'' by Charles Dickens * Sam Weller (journalist) (born 1967), American journalist and author * Sam Weller (racehorse), competitor who failed to finish in t ...

Samuel A. Weller Samuel Augustus Weller (April 12, 1851–October 4, 1925), one of the pioneer pottery manufacturers of Ohio in the United States, founded the S.A. Weller Pottery in Fultonham, Ohio, in 1872. In 1882 he moved the business to Zanesville, Ohio, and ...

(1851–1925), American pottery manufacturer *

Stuart Weller Stuart Weller (26 December 1870, Maine, New York – 1927) was an American paleontologist and geologist. Weller studied geology and paleontology at Cornell University with bachelor's degree in 1894 and at Yale University with Ph.D. in 1901. Begin ...

(1870–1927), American paleontologist and geologist *

Thomas Huckle Weller Thomas Huckle Weller (June 15, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis ...

(1915–2008), American virologist and Nobel laureate *

Walter Weller Walter Weller (30 November 1939 – 14 June 2015) was an Austrian-born conductor and classical violinist. He made several recordings over the years, founded his own string quartet. and led/co-led several well known orchestras and operas. Welle ...

(1939–2015), Austrian conductor and violinist *

William Weller William Weller (May 13, 1799 – September 21, 1863) was an entrepreneur and official in Upper Canada and Canada West. He served three terms as mayor of Cobourg. He was born in Vermont and came to Upper Canada with his father. With Hiram Nort ...

(1799–1863), entrepreneur and official in Upper Canada and Canada West * Worth Hamilton Weller (1913–1932) American herpetologist, discovered Weller's Salamander *

Weller brothers The Weller brothers, Englishmen of Sydney, Australia, and Otago, New Zealand, were the founders of a whaling station on Otago Harbour and New Zealand's most substantial merchant traders in the 1830s. Immigration The brothers, Joseph Brooks (1802� ...

, 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) Sam Weller is a fictional character in ''The Pickwick Papers'' (1836), the first novel by Charles Dickens, and the character that made Dickens famous. A humorous Cockney Shoeshiner, bootblack, Sam Weller first appeared in the fourth serialised e ...

, in the Charles Dickens novel ''The Pickwick Papers'' *

Tony Weller Tony Weller is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, ''The Pickwick Papers'' (1836). The irresponsible and care-free Tony Weller is Sam Weller (character), Sam Weller's father. A loquacious coachman, the character never became a ...

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