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Wessels
Wessels is a Dutch patronymic surname. Wessel used to be common nickname for Werner in the Eastern Netherlands and in East Frisia.1 People with this surname include:
- Albert Wessels (1908–1991), South African industrialist
- André Weßels (born 1981), German fencer
- Andreas Wessels (born 1964), German football goalkeeper
- 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
- Dirck Wessels (1638–1717), New Netherland colonist
- Emile Wessels (born 1979), Namibian rugby player
- Jaap Wessels (1939-2009), Dutch mathematician
- Jan Gerard Wessels Boer (born 1936), Dutch plant taxonomist
- Johan Wessels (born 1988), South African rugby player
- Johann-Friedrich Wessels (1904–1988), German chief engineer on a U-boat
- Johannes (John) Wilhelmus Wessels (1862-1936), Chief Justice of South Africa from 1932 to 1936
- Kepler Wessels (born 1957), South African cricket
- Leon Wessels (born 1946), South African lawyer, politician, and activist
- 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
- 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