Werner Körte (21 October 1853 – 3 December 1937) was a German surgeon born in Berlin.

During the Franco-Prussian War, he worked as a volunteer in a Typhuslazarett in Metz, and in 1875 earned his medical doctorate at the University of Strasbourg.

As a surgeon, Körte specialized in liver, gall bladder and pancreatic operations.

From 1899 until 1929, he served as the first secretary of the German Society of Surgery, later being elected an honorary chairman (1930).

The singer Amalie Joachim died while undergoing a gall bladder operation under his care on 3 February 1899.