Bissell (surname)
Bissell is a surname deriving from the Middle English 'buyscel', meaning "measure of grain", as well as the Yiddish 'bissel', meaning "a little bit". Respelling of German Biesel. Notable persons with that name include:
- Anna Sutherland Bissell (1846–1934), American manufacturing businesswoman
- Arthur D. Bissell (1844–1926), American transport businessman and banker
- Austin Bissell (died 1807), British Captain in the Royal Navy
- Clark Bissell (1782-1857), American judge and politician, governor of Connecticut
- Claude Bissell (1916– 2000), Canadian author and educator
- Clayton Bissell (1896–1972), American soldier
- Daniel Bissell (disambiguation), several persons
- Bert Bissell (1902-1998), English mountain climber and peace activist
- Emily Bissell (1861–1948), American social worker and activist
- George Bissell (industrialist) (1821–1884), American oil businessman
- George Edwin Bissell (1839–1920), American sculptor
- Israel Bissell (1752-1823), American post rider
- James D. Bissell (born 1952), American art director
- John Winslow Bissell (born 1940), American judge and attorney
- Keith Bissell (1912–1992), Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator
- Melville Reuben Bissell (1843–1889), American entrepreneur and inventor
- Laura Bissell (born 1983), English road and track racing cyclist
- Mina Bissell, Iranian-American biologist
- Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr. (1947–1996), American prosecutor
- Patrick Bissell (1957–1987), American dancer
- Peter Bissell (1986–2007), English road and track racing cyclist
- Richard M. Bissell, Jr. (1910–1994), American spy and intelligence officer
- Richard Pike Bissell (1913–1977), American author
- Silas Bissell (1942-2002), American activist
- Stanley Bissell (1906–1999), English wrestler
- Susan Bissell (21st century), UNICEF's Child Protection Section chief
- Tom Bissell (born 1974), American journalist, critic, and fiction writer
- Whit Bissell (1909–1996), American actor
- William Henry Bissell (1811–1860), American politician from Illinois
- Wilson S. Bissell (1847–1903), American politician from New York
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