Nissen

Not to be confused with Nissan (disambiguation).

Nissen may refer to:

a creature in Norse mythology, see Tomte
a Danish patronymic surname meaning "son of Nis" (Danish short form of Nicholas)
a building shaped like a tube cut in half along the middle and made from corrugated iron sheets, see Nissen hut
The Nissen Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

People named Nissen include:

George Nissen (1914-2010) inventor of the modern Trampoline
Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (1761–1826), Danish diplomat and writer, known as a biographer of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Hans-Hermann Nissen (1893-1980), German bass-baritone
Hans Joerg Nissen (born 1935), German archaeologist.
Peter Norman Nissen (1871–1930), Canadian mining engineer.
Rudolf Nissen (1896–1981), German surgeon and inventor of the Nissen fundoplication.
Sönke Nissen (1870–1923), German industrialist and philanthropist.
Steven E. Nissen (born 1949), heart specialist and chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

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