Wisse is a Dutch given name and patronymic surname. The given name may come via "Wiso" from the Germanic root -wisu-, meaning "good".Wisse at the Meertens Institute database of Dutch given names. The surname "van Wisse" is a Dutch toponymic surname and has a separate origin.Wisse, van at the Meertens Institute 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 (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, a monastic manual for female anchorites

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