Besse may refer to:

Places

* Besse, Cantal, France * Besse, Dordogne, France * Besse, Isère, France *

Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise (; oc, Bèssa), also known as Besse-en-Chandesse (its official name from April 2, 1961 to July 1, 1973), or Besse (its name before 1961), is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central F ...

, Puy-de-Dôme, France **

Super-Besse Super Besse is a winter sports resort located in Massif Central, France. Geography Super Besse located in the commune of Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise (''Parc naturel régional des volcans d'Auvergne'' in the department of Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne) ...

, a ski resort * Besse-sur-Issole, Var, France * Bessé, Charente, France * Bèssè, Benin *Besse, in Koko/Besse Local Government Area, Kebbi State, Nigeria

People

Bernard of Besse Bernard of Besse was a French Friar Minor and chronicler. He was a native of Aquitaine, with date of birth uncertain; he belonged to the custody of Cahors and was secretary to St. Bonaventure. He took up the pen after the Seraphic Doctor, he tell ...

(13th century) French Friar Minor and chronicler * Besse Cooper (1896–2012), American suffragette and supercentenarian * Besse Day (1889–1986), American statistician * Bessé´, fossilised woman (~70,000 years old) at Sulawesi, Indonesia *

Georges Besse Georges Besse (25 December 1927 – 17 November 1986) was a French businessman who led several large state-controlled French companies. He was assassinated outside his Paris home by the terrorist group Action directe. At the time of his death he ...

(1927–1986), French businessman *

Joseph Besse Joseph Besse (c. 1683–1757) was an English Quaker controversialist. He quantified the sufferings and persecution undergone by the Quakers. Biography Besse was born about 1683 and lived in Colchester, where he was a writing master. There he mar ...

(1683—1757), English writer, author of ''Quaker Sufferings''

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