Wessel
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The name Wessel refers to several persons:
- Peter Wessel, also know as Tordenskjold, a Dano-Norwegian naval war hero.
- Caspar Wessel, a Dano-Norwegian mathematician who was the first person to describe the complex numbers.
- Johan Herman Wessel, a Dano-Norwegian writer. The brother of Caspar Wessel.
- Horst Wessel, a Nazi brownshirt who was glorified as a martyr by the party in the Horst-Wessel-Lied.
- Kepler Wessels, the South African and Australian cricketer.