Wesseling (surname)

Wesseling and its variant Wesselink are Dutch toponymic surname. There were great number of farms named Wesseling or Wesselink in the east of the Netherlands, reflecting that they once belonged to a person named Wessel. There also is a town named Wesseling in Germany.[1] People with this surname or its variants include:

Wesseling
  • Gerard Wesseling (born 1939), Dutch road cyclist
  • Henk Wesseling (born 1937), Dutch historian
  • Maria Riccarda Wesseling (born 1969), Swiss-Dutch operatic mezzo-soprano
  • Petrus Wesseling (1692–1764), German-born Dutch philologist and University President
  • Pieter Wesseling (born 1942), Dutch engineer and mathematician
  • Roy Wesseling (born 1964), Dutch football manager
  • Adriaan Wesselink (1909–1995), Dutch astronomer
  • Filemon Wesselink (born 1979), Dutch reporter and television presenter
  • Marloes Wesselink (born 1987), Dutch beach volleyball player
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See also
  • Asteroid 1945 Wesselink, named after Adriaan Wesselink
  • Hermann Wesselink College, secondary school in Amstelveen named after its first principal

References
  1. Wesseling at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
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