Welser (surname)

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.