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German family of musicians. The most celebrated members were Fridolin (1733-79), a singer and violinist at Mannheim; his brother Franz Anton (1734-1812), a composer, violinist, Kapellmeister at Eutin and travelling theatrical manager, the father of Carl Maria Von Weber; and his daughters Josepha (1758/9-1819), the dramatic soprano for whom Mozart wrote the Queen of Night role in Die Zauberflöte, Aloysia (1759/61-1839), also a soprano, for whom Mozart wrote concert arias, and Constanze (1762-1842), who married Mozart. Carl Maria had two half-brothers, Fridolin (1761-1833), a violinist in the Esterházy orchestra, and Edmund (1766-1828), a minor composer active at Würzburg, Berne and Lübeck.



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Weber ('bər), river, c.125 mi (200 km) long, rising in the Uinta Mts., N central Utah, and flowing north and northwest to join the Ogden River at Ogden. The combined stream flows to the Great Salt Lake. The Weber has long been used for irrigation and is part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Weber basin project. Among the dams on the Weber are Wanship Dam (completed 1957) and Echo Dam (completed 1931).


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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has 5 meanings:

Meaning #1: German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891)
  Synonym: Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Meaning #2: United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
  Synonym: Max Weber

Meaning #3: German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920)
  Synonym: Max Weber

Meaning #4: German conductor and composer of Romantic operas (1786-1826)
  Synonyms: Carl Maria von Weber, Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber

Meaning #5: German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
  Synonyms: E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Weber


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Weber is a surname of German origin, derived from the noun meaning "weaver". The German pronunciation is [ˈveːbɐ], while in English it is more likely to be pronounced /ˈwɛbər/ or /ˈweɪbər/. In some cases, following migration to English-speaking countries, it has been anglicised to the English surname 'Webber' or even 'Weaver'.

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Albrecht Weber (1825–1901), German Indologist and historian
  • Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture
  • Alson Menno Weber (1910–2005), Canadian volleyball player
  • Aloysia Weber (ca. 1759–1839), German soprano; second eldest sister to Constanze Weber
  • Amy Weber (born 1970) is an American actress, model, film producer, and a former professional wrestling valet.
  • Axel A. Weber (born 1957), German economist, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank since April 2004.
  • Beda Weber (1798–1859), German professor, author, and politician
  • Bruce Weber (born 1956), University of Illinois varsity men's basketball coach.
  • Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), German composer; cousin of the four Weber sisters, Josepha, Aloysia, Constanze, and Sophie.
  • Carlo Weber (born 1934), German architect
  • Carlos Javier Weber (born 1966), Argentine volleyball player
  • Chris Weber (born 1966), American musician
  • Constanze Weber (1763–1842), German, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • David Weber, a noted classical clarinetist
  • David Weber (born 1952), American science fiction author
  • Dick Weber (1929–2005), American ten-pin bowler
  • Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878), German physician; founder of experimental psychology. The Weber test, a screening test for hearing, is named after him.
  • Eugen Weber (1925–2007), French historian
  • Francis J. Weber, American Catholic scholar
  • Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962), English dermatologist; son of Hermann David Weber
  • Georg F. Weber (born 1962), cancer researcher
  • George Heinrich Weber (1752–1828), botanist
  • Gottfried Weber (1779–1839), German music theorist
  • Heinrich Friedrich Weber (1843–1912), German physicist, sometimes confused with Heinrich Martin Weber
  • Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913), German mathematician, sometimes confused with Heinrich Friedrich Weber
  • Hermann Robert Weber (1899–1956), German zoologist, an author of a textbook in entomology.
  • Joe Weber (vaudevillian) (1867–1942), part of comic team of Weber and Fields
  • Joe Weber (born 1974), Firefighter/Paramedic
  • John Baptiste Weber (1842–1926), U.S. Representative from New York.
  • John Henry Weber (1779–1859), Danish born, American fur trader and explorer.
  • John Vincent Weber (born 1952), former Republican Congressman from Minnesota.
  • Jon Weber (born 1961), American jazz pianist and composer.
  • Joseph Weber (1919–2000), American physicist; developed the laser and gravitational wave detector
  • Justin Weber (1983), American Entrepreneur; born in St. Louis, MO
  • Karl Jakob Weber (1712–1764), Swiss architect and engineer; lead first organized excavations at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae
  • Karl Ivanovich Weber (born 1841), Russian diplomat of the Russian Empire
  • Kem Weber (1889–1963), German furniture and industrial designer, architect, and teacher
  • Ken Weber (nature writer) (1943–2007), American journalist and nature writer
  • Lenora Mattingly Weber, American young-adult author
  • Marc Weber (born 1973), Swiss ice hockey player
  • Marianne Weber, sociologist and women's rights activist
  • Mary E. Weber (born 1963), American former astronaut
  • Max Weber (1864–1920), sociologist
  • Max Weber (artist) (1881–1961), American cubist painter
  • Max Weber (politician) (1897–1974), Swiss politician; former member of the Swiss Federal Council
  • Michael Weber (1966–1991), Australian musician; lead guitarist of punk/indie rock band, Seminal Rats, of Melbourne
  • Otto Weber (1921–2001), Romanian politician
  • Pete Weber (born 1962), American professional bowler
  • Pete Weber commentator for the Nashville Predators
  • Richard Weber (born 1959), Canadian Arctic and polar explorer
  • Richard R. Weber (born 1953), mathematician
  • Renê Weber aka Renê Carmo Kreutz Weber (born 1961), Brazilian footballer and coach
  • Shea Weber (born 1985), professional ice-hockey defenceman; plays for the Nashville Predators
  • Stefan Weber (born 1946), Austrian art teacher; lead singer and Kapellmeister of the Viennese band Drahdiwaberl
  • Steven Weber (born 1961), American actor
  • Ted Weber (born 1951), American designer and manufacturer of loudspeakers and other musical instrument products.
  • Wayne John Weber (1938–2003), Banker, Bank of Montreal
  • Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804–1891), physicist and telegraphy pioneer, after whom the SI unit of magnetic flux is named
  • William A. Weber (born 1918), American professor of Natural History; originator of herbarium acronyms
  • Willi Weber (born 1942), German manager of formula one driver, Michael Schumacher

see also: Weber family for relatives of Constanze Weber, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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