Welser (surname) - Wikipedia

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Welser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Bartholomeus V. Welser (c. 1475 – 1559), Augsburg merchant and banker
• Bartholomeus VI. Welser (1512–1546), explorer of Venezuela
• Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof (1663–1711), mayor of Nuremberg
• Franz Welser-Möst (born 1960), Austrian conductor, music director of the Cleveland Orchestra
• Mark Welser (1558–1614), German banker, politician, and astronomer
• Philippine Welser (1527–1580), morganatic wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria

• Welser family, a German banking and merchant family.