Wisse is a Dutch

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...

and

patronymic surname A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor. Different cultures have different ways of producing patronymic surnames. For example, early patronymic Welsh surnames were the result of th ...

. The given name may come via "Wiso" from the Germanic root -wisu-, meaning "good". The surname "van Wisse" is a Dutch

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

and has a separate origin.Wisse, van
at the Meertens Institute database of Dutch surnames.

Given name

* Wisse Dekker (1924–2012), Dutch businessman *

Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit (6 December 1903, in Heumen, Gelderland – 20 June 1986) was a poet and an influential Dutch literary historian. He was a specialist in Dutch literature of the Golden Age (17th century). W.A.P. Smit worked as a teacher f ...

(1903–1986), Dutch poet and historian

Surname

* Donovan Wisse (born 1997), Surinamese kickboxer *

Mabel Wisse Smit Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau (previously Mabel Martine Wisse Smit, born Mabel Martine Los; 11 August 1968), more commonly known as Mabel van Oranje, is the widow of Prince Friso and sister-in-law of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherland ...

(born 1968), widow of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau * Ruth Wisse (born 1936), writer and academic * Yvonne Wisse (born 1982), Dutch heptathlete ;Van Wisse * Robert Francis Van Wisse (born 1965), American criminal *

Tammy van Wisse Tammy van Wisse (born 23 July 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a long-distance swimmer from Australia. 1990 she won the Lake Zurich Swim. As a marathon swimmer she swam the Murray River in 2001, a distance of 2,438 kilometres and the English Chan ...

(born 1968), Australian long-distance swimmer

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