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 (comedian), British comedian
- Alexander Hess, Czechoslovak war pilot part of No. 310 Squadron RAF
- András Hess, Hungarian printer
- Arthur Hess (SA general), 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 (composer), Swiss conductor, composer and musicologist
- Ernst Moritz Hess, German soldier, judge, railway administrator, and holocaust survivor
- Fred Hess, American jazz musician
- Fred Hess (Wisconsin), 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 (painter), 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 (politician), 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 (chess player), American chess grandmaster
- Robert Hess (college president), American President of Brooklyn College
- Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of Nazi Germany
- Rudolf Hess (artist), Californian painter and art critic
- Sara Whalen Hess, American Olympic soccer player
- Ursula Hess, Swiss archer
- Ursula Hess (psychologist), 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 (composer), Swiss musicologist, composer, Beethoven scholar
- Willy Hess (violinist), German famous violin virtuoso
- Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German architect son of Rudolf Hess