Wessels

Wessels is a Dutch and Low German patronimic surname, where it was originally a Norman Viking surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Albert Wessels (1908–1991), South African industrialist
 * André Weßels (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 (born 1982), South African rugby coach
 * Dik Wessels (1946–2017), Dutch billionaire, of VolkerWessels
 * Dirck Wessels (1638–1717), New Netherland colonist
 * Emile Wessels (born 1979), Namibian rugby player
 * Glenn Wessels (c. 1932 – 1982), South African-born American painter
 * Jaap Wessels (1939–2009), Dutch mathematician
 * Jan Gerard Wessels Boer (1936–2019), 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) (1938–1994), American college basketball player
 * Kepler Wessels (born 1957), South African cricket
 * Leon Wessels (born 1946), South African lawyer, politician, and activist
 * Louis Botha Wessels (1877-1928), Orange Free State commander in the Boer War (1899-1902)
 * 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 (born 1961), South African golfer
 * SP Wessels (born 1992), South African rugby player
 * Stefan Wessels (born 1979), German football goalkeeper
 * Stefan Wessels (born 1984), Dutch basketball player
 * Susan Wessels-Webber (born 1977), South African field hockey player
 * Tom Wessels (born 1951), American terrestrial ecologist
 * Ulla Wessels (born 1965), German analytic philosopher
 * Wessel Jacobus Wessels (1865–1945), Orange Free State Boer War general

As a middle name
 * Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954), American pathologist