Thijssen

Thijssen, Thijsen and Thijsse are Dutch patronymic surnames. The common Dutch given name Thijs is a short form of Mathijs (=Matthew). Thijssen is particularly common in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg.[1] People with this surname include:

Thijssen

* Angenelle Thijssen [de; nl] (born 1961), Dutch painter and glass artist
* Felix Thijssen (1933–2022), Dutch novelist
* François Thijssen (died 1638), Dutch explorer of the south coast of Australia
* Frans Thijssen (born 1952), Dutch footballer
* Gerben Thijssen (born 1998), Belgian racing cyclist
* Henny Thijssen (born 1952), Dutch singer and music producer
* Kees Thijssen [et; nl; ru] (born 1975), Dutch draughts player
* Leon Thijssen (born 1968), Dutch show jumper
* Lynn Thijssen (born 1992), Dutch volleyball player
* Maerten Thijssen (died 1657), Dutch admiral who later became a Swedish nobleman
* Nicole Thijssen (born 1988), Dutch tennis player
* Theo Thijssen (1879–1943), Dutch writer, teacher and socialist politician
* Walter Thijssen (1877–1943), Dutch rower

Thijsen

* Ady Thijsen (born 1958), Aruban politician
* Cornelius Didrikson Thijsen Anckarstierna (1655–1714), Swedish admiral and noble born as Cornelis Thijsen

Thijsse

* Jac. P. Thijsse (1865–1945), Dutch conservationist and botanist

## See also

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* Thyssen

Surname list

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