Wessel
Wessel is a diminutive of the given name Werner of Frisian, German, and Dutch origin.[1] It is now more common as a patronymic surname. People with this name include:
Given name
- Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899-1944), German military commander and member of the German Resistance
- Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489), Dutch theologian and early humanist
- Wessel Myburgh (born 1990), Namibian cricketer
- Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819-1901), first president of the South African Republic
- Wessel Roux (born 1975), South African rugby player
- Wessel van Diepen (born 1966), Dutch radio host
Surname
- Andreas Wessel (1858–1940), Norwegian physician and politician
- Bernhard Wessel (born 1936), German football goalkeeper
- Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, American (Iowa) politician
- Caspar Wessel (1745–1818), Dano-Norwegian mathematician who was the first person to describe the complex numbers (brother of Johan Herman Wessel)
- David Wessel (born 1954), American journalist
- Dick Wessel (1913–1965), American film actor
- Ellisif Wessel (1866–1949), Norwegian writer, trade unionist and politician
- Franz Wessel (1903–1958), German judge
- Friedrich Wessel (born 1945), German fencer
- Hedvig Wessel (born 1995), Norwegian freestyle skier
- Hendricus Wessel (1887–1977), Dutch long-distance runner
- Henry Wessel, Jr. (born 1942), American photographer
- Horst Wessel (1907-1930), a Nazi brownshirt who was glorified as a martyr by the party in the Horst-Wessel-Lied
- Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785), Dano-Norwegian writer (brother of Caspar Wessel)
- Kai Wessel (born 1964), German countertenor
- Kathrin Weßel (born 1967), German long-distance runner
- Kin Wessel (born 1964), Norwegian illustrator
- Mark Wessel (1894–1973), American pianist and composer
- Mark Wessel, American educator
- Michael R. Wessel (born c. 1959), American businessman and lobbyist
- Mike Wessel (born 1977), American mixed martial arts fighter
- Morris A. Wessel (1917–2016), American pediatrician
- Ole Christopher Wessel (1744–1794), Norwegian jurist and land surveyor
- Pål Wessel, Norwegian geophysicist
- Paul Wessel (1904-1967), East German politician
- Peter Wessel (1690-1720), also known as Tordenskjold, a Dano-Norwegian naval war hero
- Ulrich Wessel (1946 –1975), German member of the Red Army Faction
- Walter Wessel (1892 –1943), German Wehrmacht general
- Wilhelm Wessel, 17th-century German book publisher
Place names
- The Wessel Islands, a group of islands forming part of the Northern Territory, Australia, named after the Dutch ship Wesel in 1636.
- Cape Wessel, the most northerly point of Rimbija Island (itself the northernmost of the Wessel Islands)
- Wessels plass, a square in Oslo, Norway, named after Johan Herman Wessel
See also
- Wessels (surname)
References
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