Wessel

The name Wessel refers to several persons:

Peter Wessel, also known as Tordenskjold, a Dano-Norwegian naval war hero
Caspar Wessel (1745–1818), Dano-Norwegian mathematician who was the first person to describe the complex numbers
Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785), 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 (born 1957), South African and Australian cricketer

As a place name it can also refer to:

the Wessel Islands, a group of islands forming part of the Northern Territory, Australia
Cape Wessel, the most northerly point of Rimbija Island (itself the northenmost of the Wessel Islands)

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