Hess (surname)


Hess or Heß, a German and Ashkenazi surname, meaning somebody originally from the region of Hesse. Two alternative origins have been reported. Usage in the south of Germany may arise from a contraction of the personal name Matthäus.
Notable people who share this surname include:
  • Adam Hess, American basketball player
  • Adam Hess, British comedian
  • Alexander Hess, Czechoslovak war pilot part of No. 310 Squadron RAF
  • András Hess, Hungarian printer
  • Arthur Hess , German SA general and politician
  • Beat W. Hess, Swiss businessman
  • Bernhard Hess, Swiss politician
  • Bernhard von Hess, Bavarian Lieutenant General and War Minister
  • Carl von Hess, German ophthalmologist
  • Catherina Hess,, German actress
  • Charles R. Hess, American politician from Ohio
  • Damian Hess aka MC Frontalot, nerdcore rapper
  • Dean Hess, American Air Force Colonel
  • Derek Hess,, American artist
  • Elizabeth Hess, Canadian actress
  • Elmar Hess, German artist
  • Erika Hess, Swiss alpine skier
  • Ernst Hess, German World War I flying ace
  • Ernst Hess , Swiss conductor, composer and musicologist
  • Ernst Moritz Hess, German soldier, judge, railway administrator, and holocaust survivor
  • Fred Hess, American jazz musician
  • Fred Hess , American politician
  • Fred J. Hess, American politician
  • Germain Henri Hess, Russian-Swiss chemist
  • Greg Hess, 16th president of Wabash College
  • Hans-Georg Hess, German U-boat captain
  • Harry Hammond Hess, American geologist
  • Harry Hess, American college sports coach
  • Harvey Hess, American lyric poet
  • Heinrich von Heß, Austrian fieldmarshall
  • Heinrich Maria von Hess, German painter
  • Hiester Hess, American politician from Maryland
  • Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter
  • Hieronymus Hess, Swiss drawer, painter, caricaturist
  • Hunter Hess, American freestyle skier
  • Ilse Hess, German writer
  • Jake Hess, American southern gospel vocalist
  • Jared Hess, American writer and director of Napoleon Dynamite
  • Jean-Chrisostome Hess, French composer, pianist, and organist
  • Jessica Hess, American realist painter
  • Johann Hess,, German theologian
  • John Jacob Hess, Swiss-German Anabaptist minister and martyr
  • John L. Hess, American journalist
  • Karl Hess, American speechwriter and author
  • Karl Hess , German painter
  • Leon Hess Founder of Hess Corporation and the New York Jets franchise
  • Lyle Hess, American sailboat designer
  • Markus Hess, German hacker
  • Martin Hess , German politician
  • Michael A. Hess, American lawyer
  • Moses Hess, Jewish philosopher and proto-Zionist
  • Myra Hess, British pianist
  • Nicole Hess, German politician
  • Nigel Hess, British composer
  • Ortwin Hess, British optician and physicist
  • Orvan Hess, doctor who invented the fetal heart monitor
  • Per Hess, Norwegian visual artist
  • Peter von Hess, German painter
  • Robert Hess, American chess grandmaster
  • Robert Hess , American President of Brooklyn College
  • Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of Nazi Germany
  • Rudolf Hess , Californian painter and art critic
  • Sara Whalen Hess, American Olympic soccer player
  • Ursula Hess, Swiss archer
  • Ursula Hess , German psychologist
  • Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist who discovered cosmic rays
  • W. Dale Hess, American politician
  • Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist Nobel Prize winner
  • Willy Hess , Swiss musicologist, composer, Beethoven scholar
  • Willy Hess , German famous violin virtuoso
  • Wolf Rüdiger Hess , German architect son of Rudolf Hess