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- Archie WellerArchie WellerArchie Weller is an Australian award winning writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.Weller was born in Cranbrook, Western Australia, and grew up on a farm called Woonenup in the South west of that state....
(1957 – ), Australian writer - Don WellerDon WellerDon Weller is an American illustrator and painter. He did covers for Time Magazine, TV Guide and illustrated stories in Sports Illustrated, Boys' Life, Pro, and Readers Digest. He also designed posters for the NFL, The Rose Bowl, and 1984 L.A. Olympics. He has also taught at UCLA and The Art Center...
, American illustrator and painter - Don WellerDon Weller (musician)Don Weller , is a British jazz musician, tenor saxophonist and composer.-Career:...
, British tenor saxophonist - George WellerGeorge WellerGeorge Anthony Weller was an American novelist, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Daily News...
, American novelist, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist - George Russell WellerGeorge Russell WellerGeorge Russell Weller was a retired salesman from Santa Monica, California, who gained notoriety as the motorist in a fatal car accident, fueling a national debate in the United States on safety risks posed by elderly drivers.On October 20, 2006, Weller was found guilty of 10 counts of vehicular...
(1916 – ), notorious Californian motorist - Hermann WellerHermann WellerHermann Weller was a German Indiologist and neo-Latin poet born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, died in Tübingen. He is considered the Horace of the twentieth century....
(1878 – 1956), German scholar and poet - Jerry WellerJerry WellerGerald C. "Jerry" Weller is an American politician who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing .- Early life:...
, American politician - John B. WellerJohn B. WellerJohn B. Weller was the fifth Governor of California from January 8, 1858 to January 9, 1860 and a Congressman from Ohio, U.S. senator from California, and minister to Mexico.-Life:...
, Governor of California, Congressman from Ohio, Ambassador to Mexico - Keith WellerKeith WellerKeith Weller was an English footballer. He is considered to be one of Leicester City's greatest ever players. Following seven operations for cancer, he died in the United States in 2004 aged 58.-England:...
(1946 – 2004), English footballer - Marco Weller, German footballer
- Michael WellerMichael WellerMichael Weller is a Brooklyn-based playwright who is best known for his plays Moonchildren and Loose Ends. Weller is one of the founders of the Cherry Lane Theatre's acclaimed Mentor Project, which pairs pre-eminent playwrights with emerging playwrights for a season-long mentorship...
, American playwright - Michael J. WellerMichael J. WellerMichael John Weller was born in south London in 1946.Weller designed USA sleeve for David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World LP , re-released . As "Captain Stelling" Weller wrote and drew The Firm - an early British artist's publication inspired by American underground comic book innovations...
, British artist and writer - Ovington E. Weller (1862 – 1947), U.S. Senator from Maryland
- Paul Weller, British singer and songwriter
- Peter WellerPeter WellerPeter Frederick Weller is an American film and stage actor, director and lecturer.He is best known for his roles as the title character in the first two RoboCop films and Buckaroo Banzai in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension...
, American actor - Ronny WellerRonny WellerRonny Weller is a German weightlifter who competed for East Germany and later for Germany....
, German weightlifter - Sam Weller, a fictional character in The Pickwick Papers
- Thomas Huckle WellerThomas Huckle WellerThomas Huckle Weller 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 viruses in a test tube, using tissue from a monkey.Weller was born and grew up in Ann...
(1915 – , American virologist and Nobel laureate - Walter WellerWalter WellerWalter Weller is an Austrian conductor and violinist.-Biography:Weller was born in Vienna, Austria where he first gained renown as a prodigy on the violin...
(1939 – ), Austrian conductor - Worth Hamilton WellerWorth Hamilton WellerWorth Hamilton Weller was an American herpetologist who died in a fall from a cliff at Grandfather Mountain near Linville North Carolina.Weller was born in Cincinnati, Ohio...
(1913 – 1932) American herpetologist, discovered Weller's SalamanderWeller's SalamanderThe Weller's Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family.It is endemic to the United States...
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- Weller is a brand of soldering ironSoldering ironA soldering iron is a hand tool most commonly used in soldering. It supplies heat to melt the solder so that it can flow into the joint between two workpieces.A soldering iron is composed of a heated metal tip and an insulated handle...
s and other electronic products made by Cooper Hand ToolsCooper ToolsCooper Tools is a division of Cooper Industries, a Houston-based manufacturing company. It is composed of Cooper Hand Tools and Cooper Power Tools, which manufacture hand tools and power tools respectively.- Cooper Hand Tools :...
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