List of Famous people with last name Welker

Kristen Welker is an American television journalist working for NBC News. Based in Washington, D.C., Welker shares duties alongside alongside Peter Alexander both as the network's co-chief White House correspondent and as co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today. She also was a moderator in the second presidential debate with Donald Trump and Joe Biden on October 22, 2020.

Wesley Carter Welker is an American football coach and former player who is the wide receivers coach for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as an assistant coach for the Houston Texans. He played college football for the Texas Tech Red Raiders and was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2004. Welker went on to also play for the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Denver Broncos, and St. Louis Rams.

Franklin Wendell Welker is an American actor, voice actor, impressionist, and comedian, with a career spanning nearly six decades. He is best known for voicing Fred Jones in the Scooby-Doo franchise since its inception in 1969, and Scooby-Doo himself since 2002. In 2020, Welker reprised the latter role in the CGI-animated film Scoob!, the only original actor from the series in the movie's cast. He has also voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Epic Mickey and its sequel, Megatron, Galvatron and Soundwave in the Transformers franchise, Curious George in the Curious George franchise, Garfield on The Garfield Show, and Nibbler on Futurama, and Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, Astro, Sneezly Seal, Mushmouse, Azrael in The Smurfs as well as numerous animal vocal effects in many works. In 2016, he was honored with an Emmy Award for his lifetime achievement.

Heinrich Johann Welker was a German theoretical and applied physicist who invented the "transistron", a transistor made at Westinghouse independently of the first successful transistor made at Bell Laboratories. He did fundamental work in III-V compound semiconductors, and paved the way for microwave semiconductor elements and laser diodes.