Webster is an English occupational surname meaning weaver. Notable persons with that surname include:
- Alasdair Webster (born 1934), Australian politician
- Andy Webster, Scottish football player
- Arthur Gordon Webster, American physicist, founder of the American Physical Society
- Ben Webster, American jazz musician
- Corey Webster, professional American football player
- Daniel Webster (1782–1852), American statesman, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of State
- Daniel Webster, (born 1949) Member of the Florida Senate
- David Kenyon Webster (1922–1961), soldier of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Band of Brothers
- Donovan Webster, American journalist
- Frank Webster, British sociologist
- Gary Webster, actor
- Geoff Webster, journalist and associate editor of The Sun, one of those arrested in Operation Elveden in February 2012.
- Graham Webster, Scottish football player
- H. T. Webster (1885–1952), American cartoonist
- Henry George Webster (Harry Webster), British automotive engineer
- Jack Webster (1918 1999), Canadian journalist and radio/television personality
- James Webster (disambiguation)
- Jean Webster, American writer
- John Webster (c.1580-c.1634), English Renaissance playwright
- John Webster (governor) (1590–1661), former governor and lieutenant governor of the Colony of Connecticut and progenitor of Noah Webster
- John Webster (orator) (circa 1913-15 2008), Anglo/Australian public speaker and demagogue.
- John Bainbridge Webster, British Anglican systematic theologian
- John Clarence Webster, Canadian physician and historian
- John G. Webster, a founding pioneer in the field of biomedical engineering
- John W. Webster (1793–1851), Harvard professor hanged for killing Dr. George Parkman
- Kenneth Athol Webster (1906–1967), ethnographic dealer and collector
- Kenneth G. T. Webster (1871–1942), literary scholar
- Kieren Webster, bassist and occasional vocalist with Scottish band The View
- Lliam Webster, Australian ice hockey player
- Mark Webster (journalist), British journalist
- Mark Webster (darts player), Welsh darts player, 2008 BDO World Darts champion
- Martell Webster, American professional basketball player
- Mike Webster, a center in the National Football League who played most of his career (1974–1990) for the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Nate Webster, professional American football player
- Nicholas Webster, 20th century American film and television director
- Noah Webster (1758–1843), American lexicographer, spelling reformer, textbook author, and editor, known for creating Webster's Dictionary
- Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist
- Pearl Webster (1889-1918), Negro league baseball player
- Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), British barrister, politician and judge
- Richard Webster (rugby), Welsh international rugby league and union player
- Richard Webster (author) ( b. 1950), British author, biographer of Sigmund Freud
- Richard M. Webster (1922–1990), American politician from Missouri
- Robert Webster (disambiguation), several people of this name
- Roger Webster, professional cornet player
- Thomas Webster (painter), English painter
- Victor Webster, Canadian Actor
- Wendy Turner Webster, presenter
- William Downing Webster (1868–1913), ethnographic dealer and collector
Famous quotes containing the word webster:
“Everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart,—Liberty and Union, now and for ever; one and inseparable!”
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)