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Brissenden

Brissenden may refer to:

English: from either of two places in Kent named Brissenden (one near Frittenden, the other near Tenterden), both named with the Old English personal name Breosa (a byname from bresa ‘gadfly’) + Old English denn ‘woodland pasture (for swine)’. referenced from: http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?view=1&surname=brissenden

  • Roy F. Brissenden, NASA physicist, engineer, teacher and inventor
  • Paul Frederick Brissenden, labor historian