Besser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Astrid Besser (born 1989), Italian tennis player * Chaskel Besser (1923–2010), Polish-American Rabbi * Hans Besser (1510 – after 1558), German portrait painter * Hans Besser (chess player) (1935–2002), German chess master * Howard Besser (born c. 1952), American scholar of digital preservation, digital libraries, and preservation of film and video *

Jesse Besser Jesse Besser (1882–1970) was an inventor and manufacturer from Alpena in the U.S. state of Michigan. He is best known for inventing, and supervising a series of improvements to, a tamping machine used to rapidly press wet, flexible concrete ...

(1882–1970), American inventor, who invented a machine for making Besser blocks *

Joe Besser Joe Besser (born Jessel Besser, August 12, 1907 – March 1, 1988) was an American actor and comedian known for his impish humor and wimpy characters. He is best known for his brief stint as a member of The Three Stooges in movie short subject ...

(1907–1988), American comedian *

Les Besser Les Besser (born 1936) is an American electronics engineer, an expert in microwave technology. He is the founder (1973) of Compact Software, the first commercially successful microwave computer-aided design (CAD) company, which commercialize his ...

(born 1936), American electronics engineer, and founder of Compact Software, the first RF and microwave EDA company * Linton Besser, Australian journalist *

Matt Besser Matthew Gregory Besser (born September 22, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, and one of the four founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe, who had their own show on Comedy Central from 1 ...

(born 1967), American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer * Richard E. Besser (born 1959), American doctor and executive * Robert Dennis Besser, see

Robert Denning Robert Denning (March 13, 1927 – August 26, 2005) was an American interior designer whose lush interpretations of French Victorian decor became an emblem of corporate raider tastes in the 1980s. Early life Denning was born Robert Dennis ...

(1927–2005), American interior designer * Stuart M. Besser, American film producer *

Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (7 July 1784 – 11 October 1842), known in Russia as Vilibald Gotlibovich Besser () was an Austrian-born botanist active in former eastern territories of Poland occupied by the Russian Empire, who wor ...

(1784–1842), Austrian botanist

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