Wessel (name)
Wessel is a diminutive of the given name Werner of Frisian, German, and Dutch origin. People with this name include:
Given name
- Wessel van Diepen, Dutch radio host
- Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, German military commander and member of the German Resistance
- Wessel Gansfort, Dutch theologian and early humanist
- , Dutch poet, winner of the 1996 Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize
- Wessel Myburgh, Namibian cricketer
- Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the South African Republic
- Wessel Roux, South African rugby player
- Wessel Jacobus Wessels, Boer general
- Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian metaphysician, author, lawyer and mountaineer
Surname
- Andreas Wessel, Norwegian physician and politician
- Bernhard Wessel, German football player
- Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, American politician from Iowa
- Birgit Wessel, Norwegian textile artist
- Caspar Wessel, Dano-Norwegian mathematician, first to describe the complex numbers
- Christer Wessel, Swedish curler
- David Wessel, American journalist
- Dick Wessel, American film actor
- Ellisif Wessel, Norwegian writer, trade unionist and politician
- Franz Wessel, German judge
- Friedrich Wessel, German fencer
- Hedvig Wessel, Norwegian freestyle skier
- Helene Wessel, German politician
- Hendricus Wessel, Dutch long-distance runner
- Henry Wessel, Jr., American photographer
- Horst Wessel, Nazi brownshirt, glorified as a martyr in the Horst-Wessel-Lied
- Jessie Wessel, Swedish actress
- Johan Herman Wessel, Dano-Norwegian writer, brother of Caspar
- Kai Wessel (countertenor), German countertenor
- Kathrin Weßel, German long-distance runner
- Mark Wessel, American pianist and composer
- Mark Wessel, American educator
- Mike Wessel, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Morris A. Wessel, American pediatrician
- Ole Christopher Wessel, Norwegian jurist and land surveyor
- Pål Wessel, Norwegian geophysicist
- Paul Wessel, East German politician
- Peter Wessel, also known as Tordenskjold, Dano-Norwegian naval war hero
- Ulrich Wessel, German member of the Red Army Faction
- Walter Wessel, German army general
- Wilhelm Wessel, 17th-century German book publisher