List of Famous people named Werner

Werner Walter Hugo Paul Rothmaler was a German botanist and from 1953 until 1962 head of the Institute for Agricultural Biology of the University of Greifswald. His areas of expertise included plant geography and systematics.

Werner Riess is a German Ancient Historian.

Werner Hoyer is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), currently serving as the President of the European Investment Bank.

Werner Rodolfo Greuter, in Genoa, Italy, as a Swiss national, is a botanist. He is the chair of the Editorial Committee for the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) - the Tokyo Code (1994) and the St Louis Code (2000). His proposed policy as regards registration of botanical names proved unpopular and in 1999 he stepped back, not being elected anew: he completed his term as chair to be succeeded at Vienna in 2005. He has returned as a member of the editorial committee, contributing to the renamed International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, the "Melbourne Code" (2012).

Werner Abelshauser is a German economic historian.