Webber (surname)
Webber is an English occupational surname meaning weaver.
Etymology
Webber is an occupational surname referring to, "a maker of cloth". The ending "er" generally denotes some employment, examples include Miller and Salter. The ending "er" is the masculine form whilst "ster", as in Webster, is the feminine form.Variants of the name include Weaver, Webbe, Webster and Weber, the German form of the name.
Notable people with the surname Webber
- Anna Webber, Canadian saxophonist, flutist, and composer
- A. R. F. Webber, Trinidadian writer
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer
- Bonnie Webber, computational linguist
- Chris Webber, American basketball player
- Charles Webber (disambiguation), several people
- Danny Webber, English footballer
- Darren Webber, Australian politician
- David Webber (basketball), American basketball player
- Diane Webber, American model and actress
- Donald W. Webber, justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
- Douglas A. Webber, Canadian architect
- Elizabeth Webber, fictional character introduced in 1997 in TV series General Hospital
- George W. Webber (politician), U.S. Representative
- Gordon Webber (disambiguation), several people
- Herbert John Webber, American plant physiologist
- John Webber, Swiss-English painter
- Jules C. Webber, American Civil War brevet brigadier general
- Julian Lloyd Webber, British solo cellist, conductor, and broadcaster
- Margareta Webber, Australian bookseller
- Mark Webber (disambiguation), several people
- Michael Webber (disambiguation), several people
- Melvin M. Webber, American urban designer and theorist
- Pamela Balash-Webber, American diving instructor
- Peter Webber, British film director
- Rob Webber, English rugby union player
- Robert Webber, American actor
- Robert E. Webber, American theologian
- Ruth Webber, Australian politician
- Samuel Webber, American clergyman, mathematician, and academic
- Sharon Webber, American surfer
- Sian Webber, British actress
- Stacey Lee Webber, American metalsmith
- Stephen Webber, American politician
- Steve Webber, American baseball coach
- Teresa Webber, British palaeographer, medievalist, and academic
- Walter Webber, Western Cherokee leader and trader, founder of present-day Webbers Falls, Oklahoma
- William Webber (disambiguation), several people