Wedel (surname) explained

Wedel is a surname with different etymologies. It can be derived from the town Wedel in Schleswig-Holstein or from other places in Germany called Wedel. It can also be a name spelled Wedel or Vedel derived from Old Danish wæthel, meaning ford. For example Vedel or Wedel is an older spelling of the name of the city Vejle, and was taken as a surname by many people from the area.

The name may refer to:

• Dieter Wedel (1939–2022), German director
• Erich Rüdiger von Wedel (1892-1954), German flying ace
• Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645–1721), German professor of botany, chemistry and medicine
• George Wedel (1900–1981), English cricketer
• Hasso von Wedel (aviator) (1893-1945), German flying ace
• Hasso von Wedel (general) (1898-1961), German general during World War II
• Hedda von Wedel (born 1942), German politician (CDU)
• Janine R. Wedel, American anthropologist
• Jerrold von Wedel (1921–1963), American heart surgeon
• Johann Adolph Wedel (1675–1747), German professor of medicine
• Karol Wedel (1813–1902), German Polish confectioner
• Matt Wedel, American paleontologist
• Michel Wedel, American professor of consumer science
• Mildred Mott Wedel (1912–1995), American scholar of Great Plains archaeology and ethnohistory
• Waldo Rudolph Wedel (1908–1996), American archaeologist

See also

• Wedel family