Hess (surname)
Hess or Heß as a surname may refer to:
- András Hess, Hungarian printer
- Bernhard Hess (born 1966), Swiss politician
- Bernhard von Heß (1792–1869), Bavarian Lieutenant General and War Minister
- Catherina Heß, German actress
- Damian Hess aka MC Frontalot, nerdcore rapper
- Dean Hess (born 1917), American Air Force Colonel
- Elizabeth Hess (born 1953), Canadian actress
- Elmar Hess (born 1966), German artist
- Eric Hess, American wrestler
- Erika Hess (born 1962), Swiss alpine skier
- Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850), Russian-Swiss chemist
- Gregory Hess (born 1962), 16th President of Wabash College
- Hans-Georg Hess (1923-2008), German U-boat captain
- John Jacob Hess (1584-1639)
- Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969), American geologist best known for his theories on sea floor spreading
- Harry Hess, American college sports coach
- Harvey Hess (1939-2012), American lyric poet
- Heinrich von Heß (1788–1870), Austrian fieldmarshall
- Heinrich Maria von Hess, German painter
- de, Swiss drawer, painter, caricaturist (1799-1850)
- Jake Hess, American southern gospel vocalist
- Jared Hess (born 1979), American writer and director of Napoleon Dynamite
- Johann Heß (Hesse), (1490–1547), German theologian
- Karl Hess (1923–1994), American speechwriter and author
- Karl Hess (painter) (1801-1874), German painter
- Leon Hess Founder, Chairman of the Board & CEO of Hess Corporation and the New York Jets NFL Football franchise until his death
- Markus Hess, German hacker
- Michael A. Hess (1952-1995), American lawyer
- Moses Hess (1812–1875), Jewish philosopher and proto-Zionist
- Myra Hess (1890–1965), British pianist
- Nigel Hess, British composer
- Ortwin Hess, British optician and physicist
- Orvan Hess (1906–2002), doctor who invented the fetal heart monitor
- Peter von Hess, German painter
- Rudolf Hess (Heß) (1894–1987), Deputy Führer of Nazi Germany
- Sam Hess, American biophysicist
- Sonja Hess, American biochemist
- Stephane Hess
- Thomas Hess, American computer scientist
- Todd David Hess, (born 1960), USAF Colonel, first AF Member to receive Army Legion of Merit
- Victor Francis Hess (1883–1964), Austrian-American physicist who discovered cosmic rays
- Walter Rudolf Hess (1881–1973), Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949
- Willy Hess (violinist) (1859–1939), German famous violin virtuoso
- Willy Hess (composer) (1906–1997), Swiss musicologist, composer, and famous Beethoven scholar
- Wolf Rüdiger Hess (Heß) (1937–2001), German architect, right extremist and son of Rudolf Hess
See also
- Rudolf Hoess (also Höss or Höß), commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II
- Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488–1540), German Latin poet
- The Hess Homestead
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