Wessels is a Dutch and

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patronimic surname, where it was originally a

Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...

Viking surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Albert Wessels Albert Wessels (1 October 1908 - 22 July 1991) was a South African industrialist and the founder of Toyota South Africa. Toyota South Africa can trace its roots back to 1961, when Wessels obtained a permit to import ten ''Toyopet Stout'' pick ...

(1908–1991), South African industrialist *

André Weßels André Weßels (also spelled Wessels; born 21 October 1981) is a German former fencer. He competed in the individual and team foil events at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympic ...

(born 1981), German fencer * Andreas Wessels (born 1964), German football goalkeeper * Bredell Wessels (born 1995), Namibian cricketer * Charlotte Wessels (born 1987), Dutch heavy metal singer * Cornelius Hermanus Wessels (1851–1924), South African politician and statesman * Cornelius Wessels (1880–1964), Dutch Jesuit and historian *

David Wessels David Wessels (born 1982), is a South African-Australian professional rugby union football coach. He is currently the head coach of the Melbourne Rebels team that compete in the Super Rugby competition. He was previously head coach at the West ...

(born 1982), South African rugby coach * (1946–2017), Dutch billionaire, of VolkerWessels * Dirck Wessels (1638–1717), New Netherland colonist * Emile Wessels (born 1979), Namibian rugby player *

Glenn Wessels Glenn Anthony Wessels (1895 – July 23, 1982) was a Cape Colony-born American painter, etcher, lithographer and arts educator. He was a professor at the California College of the Arts, Washington State University, and the University of Californi ...

(c. 1932 – 1982), South African-born American painter *

Jaap Wessels Jacobus (Jaap) Wessels (19 January 1939 – 30 July 2009) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor of Stochastic Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Jo van Nunen and Jaap van der Wal. "Jaap Wessels–his life with stocha ...

(1939–2009), Dutch mathematician *

Jan Gerard Wessels Boer Jan Gerard Wessels Boer (born 10 August 1936, Haren, Groningen- died Molenaarsgraaf 13 July 2019) was a Dutch plant taxonomist best known for his work on palms. He has described 37 species, subspecies and varieties of plants, especially in the ...

(born 1936), Dutch plant taxonomist * Johan Wessels (born 1988), South African rugby player * John Wessels (1862–1936), Chief Justice of South Africa from 1932 to 1936 *

John Wessels (basketball) John M. Wessels (February 13, 1938 – December 3, 1994) was an American college basketball standout for Illinois in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A center, Wessels averaged 13.4 points and 8.7 rebounds per game in his three years of varsity bas ...

(1938–1994), American college basketball player * Kepler Wessels (born 1957), South African cricket * Leon Wessels (born 1946), South African lawyer, politician, and activist * Louis Wessels (born 1998), German tennis player * Peter Wessels (born 1978), Dutch tennis player * Riki Wessels (born 1985), Australian cricketer * Robbie Wessels (born 1980), South African singer and actor *

Roger Wessels Roger Mark Wessels (born 4 March 1961) is a South African professional golfer. Career Wessels was born in Port Elizabeth. He turned professional at a relatively late age in 1987, without having had any major successes as an amateur. Despite t ...

(born 1961), South African golfer * SP Wessels (born 1992), South African rugby player *

Stefan Wessels Stefan Wessels (born 28 February 1979) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Bayern Munich Wessels was a youth team player at Bayern Munich, who progressed through the reserve team and broke into th ...

(born 1979), German football goalkeeper *

(born 1984), Dutch basketball player *

Susan Wessels-Webber Susan Wessels-Webber (born 12 November 1977 in Bloemfontein, Free State) is a field hockey player from South Africa who represented her country at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. She captained the women's national team at the 2003 All-Afri ...

(born 1977), South African field hockey player *

Tom Wessels Tom Wessels (born 1951) is an American terrestrial ecologist working as a professor at Antioch University New England in the Department of Environmental Studies, where he founded a master's program in conservation biology. He is the author of fiv ...

(born 1951), American terrestrial ecologist *

Ulla Wessels Ulla Wessels (born 1965) is a German analytic philosopher working in practical philosophy, particularly ethics. She is a Professor of Practical Philosophy in the Philosophy Department of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. Research Ulla W ...

(born 1965), German analytic philosopher As a middle name *

Anna Wessels Williams Dr. Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954) was an American pathologist at the first municipal diagnostic laboratory in the United States. She used her medical training from the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for research rather ...

(1863–1954), American pathologist

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