Wegener
# Wegener

Wegener may refer to:

## Astronomy

* 29227 Wegener, a main-belt asteroid
* Wegener (lunar crater)
* Wegener (Martian crater)

## Places

* Wegener Range, an Antarctic mountain range
* Mount Wegener, an Antarctic mountain in the Read Mountains in the Shackleton Range
* Wegener Canyon, an undersea canyon
* Wegener Halvo Formation, a geologic formation in Greenland

## Businesses

* Wegener (company), a Dutch media conglomerate
* Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

## Medicine

* Wegener's granulomatosis, now known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis

## People

* Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German geologist who originated the theory of continental drift
* Kapitänleutnant Bernhard Wegener, commander of German submarine U-27, killed in one of the two Baralong incidents in 1915
* Bertha Frensel Wegener (1874–1953), Dutch composer and music educator
* Bobby Wegener, American lawyer and Oklahoma's Secretary of Energy from 2008-2011
* Manuela (singer) (1943–2001), German singer Doris Inge Wegener
* Einar Mogens Wegener (1882–1931), birth name of transsexual pioneer Lili Elbe
* Emmy Wegener (1901–1973), Dutch violinist, pianist, poet and composer
* Frederico or Federico Wegener, aliases of Eduard Roschmann (1908–1977), Nazi SS officer known as the "Butcher of Riga"
* Friedrich Wegener (1907–1990), German pathologist
* Gerda Wegener (1886–1940), Danish illustrator
* Ingo Wegener (1950–2008), German computer scientist
* Kurt Wegener (1878–1964), German polar explorer and meteorologist, brother of Alfred
* Mike Wegener (born 1946), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Myrton O. Wegener (1917–1991), American farmer, businessman, and politician
* Otto Wegener (1849–1924), French portrait photographer
* Otto Wegener (1881–1938), Danish sports shooter
* Paul Wegener (1874–1948), German actor and film director
* Paul Wegener (Nazi) (1908–1993), German Nazi Party official
* Stephen T. Wegener (born 1952), American psychologist
* Ulrich Wegener (1929–2017), German police officer
* Wilhelm Wegener (1895–1944), German general during World War II
* Wolfgang Wegener (1875–1956), German admiral and naval historian
