Bissell (surname)

Bissell is a surname deriving from the Middle English "buyscel", meaning "measure of grain", as well as the Yiddish "Bissel" and "Biselman". Respelling of German "Biesel". Notable persons with that name include:

• A. Keith Bissell (born 1941), American politician
• Anna Sutherland Bissell (1846–1934), American manufacturing businesswoman
• Arthur D. Bissell (1844–1926), American transport businessman and banker
• Austin Bissell (died 1807), British Captain in the Royal Navy
• Bert Bissell (1902–1998), English mountain climber and peace activist
• Clark Bissell (1782–1857), American judge and politician, governor of Connecticut
• Claude Bissell (1916– 2000), Canadian author and educator
• Clayton Lawrence Bissell (1896–1972), American soldier
• Daniel Bissell (disambiguation), several people
• Emily Bissell (1861–1948), American social worker and activist
• Emma Bissell (born 2001), English footballer
• Frank Bissell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Gene Bissell (1926–2016), American football player and coach
• George Bissell (industrialist) (1821–1884), American oil businessman
• George Edwin Bissell (1839–1920), American sculptor
• Hezekiah Bissell (1835–1928), American civil engineer
• Israel Bissell (1752–1823), American post rider
• James D. Bissell (born 1952), American art director
• Jean Galloway Bissell (1936–1990), American judge and attorney
• John Winslow Bissell (born 1940), American judge and attorney
• Keith Bissell (1912–1992), Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator
• Laura Bissell (born 1983), English road and track racing cyclist
• Melville Reuben Bissell (1843–1889), American entrepreneur and inventor
• Mina Bissell, Iranian-American biologist
• Nicholas L. Bissell Jr. (1947–1996), American prosecutor
• Patrick Bissell (1957–1987), American dancer
• Peter Bissell (1986–2007), English road and track racing cyclist
• Raymond Ward Bissell (1936–2019), American art historian
• Richard M. Bissell Jr. (1910–1994), American spy and intelligence officer
• Richard Pike Bissell (1913–1977), American author
• Silas Bissell (1942–2002), American activist
• Stanley Bissell (1906–1999), English wrestler
• Susan Bissell (21st century), UNICEF's Child Protection Section chief
• Tom Bissell (born 1974), American journalist, critic, and fiction writer
• Whit Bissell (1909–1996), American actor
• William Bissell (disambiguation), several people
• Wilson S. Bissell (1847–1903), American politician from New York

See also

• Bissell (disambiguation)