Bessel
Bessel is the family name of the following people:
- Bernhard Bessel (1814–1868), East Westphalian district administrator and member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation
- Carl Wilhelm von Bessel (1727–1800), Prussian chamber clerk
- Ehmi Bessel (1904–1988), German theater and film actress
- Erich Bessel-Hagen (1898–1946), professor of mathematics and the history of mathematics in Bonn
- Ernst Bessel (1906–1989), German politician (SPD), member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament
- Ernst Bessel Hagen (1851–1923), German applied physicist and experimental physicist
- Franz Bessel (1825–1883), German university professor
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846), astronomer, mathematician and geodesist
- Fritz Karl Bessel-Hagen (1856–1945), surgeon
- Gottfried Bessel (1672–1749), Abbot of Göttweig
- Heinrich Bessel (1603–1671), Chancellor of the Principality of Minden
- Herbert Bessel (1921–2013), German painter and sculptor
- Johann Friedrich Bessel (1755–1833), German theater actor
- Ludwig Bessel (1790–1848), German lawyer
- Otto Bessel (1815–1892), German Protestant pastor and superintendent
- Richard Bessel (* 1948), British historian
- Rudolf von Bessel (1810-1894), Prussian lieutenant general
- Willy Bessel (1830–1864), German historian
Bessel also means:
- (1552) Bessel , asteroid
- Bessel (moon crater)
- Bessel ellipsoid , reference ellipsoid for Europe
- Bessel filter , frequency filter
- Bessel functions , solutions to Bessel's differential equation
- Bessel's inequality
- Bessel elements
- Bessel era
- Bessel point
- Besselpark , park in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the street block Besselstraße, Friedrichstraße and Enckestraße
- Bessel beam
- Bessel method for determining the focal length
- Measurement unit Mercator / Bessel
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Institute
