Heinz (given name)
Heinz is a German given name, a diminutive of Heinrich and cognate of the given name Henry. People with this given name include:
People with the given name Heinz
- Heinz Allersmeier, German Army officer in World War II
- Heinz von Allmen, Swiss Olympic skier
- Heinz Alt, German composer and victim of the Nazi regime
- Heinz Anger, Austrian painter
- Heinz Ansbacher, German-American psychologist
- Heinz Arndt, Australian economist
- Heinz Arnold, German Luftwaffe fighter ace
- Heinz Arzberger, Austrian football player
- Heinz Auerswald, German lawyer and member of the SS
- Heinz Barwich, German nuclear physicist
- Heinz Burt, German-born British pop singer
- Heinz Edelmann, German illustrator and designer
- Heinz Fiedler, German general
- Heinz Erhardt, German comedian, entertainer and actor
- Heinz Fischer, President of Austria
- Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher
- Heinz Galinski, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
- Heinz Guderian, German general during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Eastern Front (World War II) and Battle of Moscow
- Heinz-Günther Guderian, German officer in the Wehrmacht and later NATO, son of Heinz Guderian
- Heinz Günthardt, Swiss tennis player
- Heinz van Haaren, Dutch football player
- Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German racing driver
- Heinz Harant, Australian student activist
- Heinz Heck, German biologist and zoo director
- Heinz Werner Höber, prolific pulp fiction author
- Heinz Hoenig, German actor
- Heinz Höher, German footballer
- Heinz Höhne, German journalist and historian
- Heinz Hopf, German mathematician
- Heinz-Otto Kreiss, German mathematician
- Heinz Kühn, German politician
- Heinz Kurschildgen, German charlatan
- Heinz Rudolf Kunze, German singer
- Heinz Lembke, German right-wing extremist
- Heinz-Georg Lemm, German military officer
- Heinz Linge, SS officer who served as Adolf Hitler's valet
- Heinz A. Lowenstam, German-born, Jewish-American paleoecologist
- Heinz von Lichberg, German author known for his 1916 short story Lolita
- Heinz Magenheimer, Austrian historical revisionist
- Heinz Mayr, German racewalker
- Heinz Plank, German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist
- Heinz von Randow, German army general in World War II
- Heinz Raack, German hockey player
- Heinz Rühmann, German actor
- Heinz Spoerli, Swiss choreographer
- Heinz Staab, German chemist and director of the Max Planck Society
- Heinz Steinberger, Austrian ice speed skater
- Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician and former Vice-Chancellor
- Heinz Weber, Austrian former footballer
- Heinz Winckler, singer, winner of the first South Africa Idols competition
- Heinz Wolff, German-British scientist and TV presenter
- Heinz Zander, German artist and writer
People better known by other names
- Heinz Alfred Kissinger, German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman
- Heinz Horst Bodo Dettke, a Solomon Islands politician
- Heinz Kurt Bolender, SS officer in World War II
- Heinz Strobl, Austrian New Age composer
- Heinz-Frederic Jolles, a German pianist and composer
- Heinz-Georg Kramm, German singer and entertainer
Fictional characters
- Heinz, a character from the Japanese animated film Memories
- Heinz, a Dutch comic strip about a grumpy, sarcastic cat by René Windig and Eddie de Jong.
- Heinz Doofenshmirtz, a fictional character from Phineas and Ferb
- Heinz Kruger, a German spy during World War II in the Marvel Comics universe
- Heinz Thorvald, character in the 1999 novel War of the Rats
- Heinz Thorvald, character in the 2001 film ''Enemy at the Gates''