Given Name
Werner | |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Region of origin | Germanic |
Other names | |
Related names | Verner, Wernher, Warner |
- Werner Aisslinger (born 1964), German furniture designer
- Werner Abrolat (1924–1997), German actor and voice actor
- Werner Aspenström (1918–1997), Swedish poet
- Werner Asam (born 1944), German television actor, director and writer
- Werner Best (1903–1989), high-ranking Nazi official during World War II
- Werner Bochmann (1900–1993), German composer
- Werner Bruschke (1898–1995), East German politician
- Werner Cabrera, Peruvian politician
- Werner Christie (born 1949), Norwegian Labour Party politician, former Minister of Social Affairs and Health and Social Affairs
- Werner Dankwort (1895–1986), German diplomat before and after the Nazi era
- Werner Erhard, American founder of Erhard Seminars Training (EST) and The Landmark Forum
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), German movie director, screenwriter and actor
- Werner Finck (1902–1978), German comedian
- Werner Franz (born 1972), Austrian former alpine skier
- Werner Fenchel (1905–1988), German mathematician
- Werner Forssmann, (1904–1979), German physician, received Nobel Prize for cardiological studies
- Werner Franz (born 1972), Austrian alpine skier
- Werner Günthör (born 1961), Swiss olympic track and field athlete
- Werner Hamacher (born 1948), German deconstructive literary critic and theorist
- Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), German quantum physicist and Nobel laureate
- Werner Herzog (born 1942), German film and opera actor, director, and screenwriter
- Werner Wolfgang Heubeck (1923–2009), German transport executive, former managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus
- Werner Hippler (born 1970), plays American football in Germany for the Cologne Centurions, formerly played for Frankfurt Galaxy
- Werner Hoeger (born 1954), Venezuelan Olympic athlete
- Werner Hug (born 1952), Swiss chess player
- Werner Jäger (born 1959), Austrian speed skater
- Werner Kiem (born 1962), Italian biathlete
- Werner Klemperer (1920–2000), German actor
- Werner Koch (born 1961), German free software author
- Werner Kohlmeyer (1924–1974), West German football (soccer) player
- Werner Krämer (born 1940), West German football (soccer) player
- Werner Krauss (1884–1959), German film actor
- Werner Kutzelnigg (born 1933), prominent Austrian-German theoretical chemist
- Werner Lička (born 1954), Czech football (soccer) player and manager
- Werner Liebrich (1927–1995), German football (soccer) player and coach
- Werner Mölders, Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter ace in World War II
- Werner Munter (1941–2007), Swiss mountaineering expert
- Werner of Oberwesel (1271–1287), Christian boy allegedely murdered by Jews
- Hans Werner Olm (born Hans Olm, 1955), German television and film comedian
- Werner Otto (born 1948), East German track cyclist
- Werner Perathoner (born 1967), Italian alpine skier
- Werner Peter (born 1950), East German football (soccer) player
- Werner Potzernheim (born 1927), German road bicycle and track cyclist
- Werner Rahn (born 1939), German naval officer and naval historian
- Werner Reiterer (born 1968), Australian discus thrower
- Werner Rolevinck (1425–1502), Carthusian monk
- Werner Roth (German football coach), coach of Karlsruher SC in the 1960s
- Werner Roth (soccer) (born 1948), American soccer player
- Werner Roth (comics), American comic book artist
- Werner Schildhauer (born 1959), East German olympic track and field athlete
- Werner Schmidt (born 1932), Canadian politician
- Werner Schnitzer (born 1942), German television actor
- Werner Schroeter (born 1945), German film director
- Werner Sobek (born 1953), German architect and research engineer
- Werner Stengel (born 1936), German engineer and roller coaster designer
- Werner Stocker (1955–1993), German film and television actor
- Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), German inventor and industrialist
- Werner von Blomberg, leading figure in Nazi Germany
- Werner von Fritsch, leading figure in Nazi Germany
- Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO
- Werner Voss (1897–1917), German World War I fighter ace
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“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)