People Born in Wesel
- Jan Joest (1455–1519), painter
- Hans Lippershey (1550–1619), Inventor of the telescope
- Peregrine Bertie, 12th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (1555–1601), English diplomat and soldier
- Peter Minuit (1580–1641), Founder of New Amsterdam, which later became New York City
- Johann Friedrich Welsch (1796–1871), painter
- Konrad Duden (1829–1911), Author of the first Duden
- Friedrich Geselschap (1835–98), painter
- Ida Tacke (1896–1978), Discover with her husband Walter Noddack the chemical elements rhenium and technetium
- Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946), Foreign minister of Nazi Germany from 1938–45
- Marlis Jermutus (1942– ), Trans-Expressionist painter, and musician (Starseed)
- Dieter Nuhr (1960– ), Comedian
- Martin Bambauer (1979– ), Church musician
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