Wisse is a
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
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** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
* In specific terms, i ...
given name
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and
patronymic surname
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. The given name may come via "Wiso" from the Germanic root -wisu-, meaning "good". The surname "van Wisse" is a Dutch
toponymic surname
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Wisse, van
at the Meertens Institute
The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of ...
database of Dutch surnames.
Given name
* Wisse Dekker (1924–2012), Dutch businessman
* Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit (1903–1986), Dutch poet and historian
Surname
* Donovan Wisse (born 1997), Surinamese kickboxer
* Mabel Wisse Smit (born 1968), widow of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
*Ruth Wisse
Ruth Wisse (; Yiddish: רות װײַס; Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic and political activist. She is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University ''emerit ...
(born 1936), writer and academic
* Yvonne Wisse (born 1982), Dutch heptathlete
;Van Wisse
* Robert Francis Van Wisse (born 1965), American criminal
* Tammy van Wisse (born 1968), Australian long-distance swimmer
See also
*Ancrene Wisse
''Ancrene Wisse'' (; also known as the ''Ancrene Riwle'' or ''Guide for Anchoresses'') is an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses written in the early 13th century.
The work consists of eight parts: divine service, keeping the ...
, a monastic manual for female anchorites
References
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Dutch masculine given names
Masculine given names
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