Weld (name)
Weld is a surname of Anglo-Saxon English and Dutch origin.
Notable people
- Weld family, an extended English family going back to the 11th century
- Alfred Weld, leading English Jesuit and astronomer, grandson of Thomas Weld of Lulworth
- Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, Anglican, Member of Parliament, added Weld name for inheritance
- Cecil Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester, Conservative peer and Member of Parliament, son of Orlando
- Charles Richard Weld, English writer and historian, son of Isaac
- Charles Joseph Weld, officer in the British Indian Army in both World wars
- Dermot Weld, Irish veterinarian and racehorse trainer
- Edward Weld, son of Humphrey Weld, sued at the Arches Court by his first wife, countersued and won
- Eadric the Wild, nephew of the Duke of Mercia, Norman Conquest resister and presumed ancestor of Welds
- Edward Weld, English recusant landowner and first husband of Maria Fitzherbert
- Sir Frederick Weld, Prime minister of New Zealand, grandson of Thomas Weld of Lulworth
- George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester, Father of the House of Commons and Peer
- Harry Weld-Forester, Scottish cricketer
- Henry Joseph Weld-Blundell, Australian politician
- Herbert Weld Blundell, English traveller in Africa, archaeologist, philanthropist and yachtsman
- Sir Humphrey Weld, member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, Lord Mayor of London
- Humphrey Weld (of Lulworth) MP, purchaser of Lulworth estate, son of Sir John of Arnold's Court
- Isaac Weld, Irish explorer and artist
- Sir John Weld, of Arnold's Court, Edmonton, Middlesex, son of the Lord Mayor founded the Weld Chapel
- Sir John Weld, member of Parliament in 1679
- Sir John Weld, of Compton Bassett
- John Welde, of Willye, High Sheriff of Shropshire
- John Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester Tory politician
- Joseph Weld (yachtsman), recusant third son of Thomas Weld of Lulworth, competitive yachtsman
- Sir Joseph William Weld, army officer, landowner and Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
- Maria Weld, second wife of Edward Weld of Lulworth, better known as Mrs Fitzherbert
- Orlando Weld-Forester, 4th Baron Forester, British Peer and Anglican clergyman
- Thomas Welde, temporary Puritan emigrant from Essex to New England
- Thomas Weld (of Lulworth), recusant landowner of Lulworth and philanthropist, father of fifteen children
- Thomas Weld (cardinal), eldest son of Thomas Weld of Lulworth, English Roman Catholic cardinal
- Thomas Weld Blundell, landowner grandson of Thomas Weld of Lulworth, added Blundell name for inheritance
- Wilfrid Weld, landowner and restorer of Lulworth Castle
- William Weld, son of Sir John of Compton Basset, landowner
- Weld family, an extended family of New England
- * Charles Goddard Weld, 1857–1911, physician and philanthropist
- * Daniel S. Weld, computer scientist
- * Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 1801–1874, a photographer
- * Francis Weld Peabody, 1881-1927, American physician and Harvard Medical School teacher
- * George Walker Weld, 1840–1905, philanthropist, athlete
- * Greg Weld, race car driver and manufacturer
- * Isabel Weld Perkins, 1876–1948
- * John Weld Peck, a United States District Judge for Ohio
- * John Weld (writer), newspaper reporter in New York
- * Philip Saltonstall Weld, 1915–1984, newspaper publisher and yacht racer
- * Seth L. Weld, Philippine–American War Medal of Honor recipient
- * Stephen Minot Weld, 1806–1867, schoolmaster, investor, and politician
- * Stephen Minot Weld, Jr., 1842–1920, horticulturist and Army officer
- * Susan Roosevelt Weld, wife of William Weld
- * Theodore Dwight Weld, 1803–1895, an abolitionist
- * Theresa Weld Blanchard, a figure skater
- * Tuesday Weld, 1943–, an actress
- * William Weld, former Governor of Massachusetts
- * William Gordon Weld, 1775–1825, ship owner
- * William Fletcher Weld, 1800–1881, ship owner