Henry Nissen
German/Australian boxer
- Born
- 15 January 1948, Bergen
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- featherweight, bantamweight, flyweight
- Occupation
- boxer
Henry Nissen OAM (born Henry Nissenbaum; 15 January 1948, in Belsen) is an Australian amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur represented Australia and won the gold medal at flyweight in the boxing at the 1969 Maccabiah Games, and as a professional won the Australian flyweight title, and Commonwealth flyweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 111+1⁄4 lb (50.5 kg; 7 st 13.3 lb), i.e. flyweight to 118+1⁄4 lb (53.6 kg; 8 st 6.3 lb), i.e. featherweight. He was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009. He currently works as a youth social worker, and is a founder of the Emerald Hill Mission.
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Facts from Wikidata Q16124068 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.