Wisse is a Dutch given name and patronymic surname. The given name may come via "Wiso" from the Germanic root -wisu-, meaning "good". The surname "van Wisse" is a Dutch toponymic surname and has a separate origin.
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
References
- Wisse at the Meertens Institute database of Dutch given names.
- Wisse, van at the Meertens Institute database of Dutch surnames.
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