Wisse

For the asteroid 4295 Wisse, see List of minor planets: 4001–5000.

Wisse is a Dutch given name and patronymic surname. The given name may come via "Wiso" from the Germanic root -wisu-, meaning "good".^[1] The surname "van Wisse" is a Dutch toponymic surname and has a separate origin.^[2]

Given name

• Wisse Dekker (1924–2012), Dutch businessman
• Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit (1903–1986), Dutch poet and historian

Surname

• Donovan Wisse (born 1997), Surinamese kickboxer
• Mabel Wisse Smit (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 (born 1968), Australian long-distance swimmer

See also

• Ancrene Wisse, a monastic manual for female anchorites