Tessem is a

Norwegian surname This is a list of the most common surnames in Europe, sorted by country. Albania At the moment, listings for the most common names are unavailable for Albania. However the most common names include the following: * Common names denoting ...

. Notable people with the surname include: * Jo Tessem (born 1972), Norwegian footballer *

Peter Tessem Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen were two young men from Norway who went with fellow Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen on his 1918 Arctic expedition aboard ship ''Maud''. Peter Tessem was a carpenter and Paul Knutsen was an able-bodied seaman. One y ...

, Norwegian carpenter and member of Roald Amundsen's 1918 Arctic expedition

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