Hesse (surname)
Hesse is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adolf Friedrich Hesse, German composer
- Adukwei Hesse, Ghanaian physician-academic, tuberculosis control expert, prison reform advocate and Presbyterian minister
- Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse, First Ghanaian woman to train as a paediatric surgeon
- Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
- Birgit Hesse, German politician
- Chris Tsui Hesse, cinematographer, filmmaker, prison reform campaigner and Presbyterian minister
- Christian Heinrich Friedrich Hesse, German pastor and naturalist
- Eva Hesse, painter and sculptor
- Herman Chinery-Hesse, Ghanaian technology entrepreneur and founder of the SOFTribe
- Hermann Hesse, German-born poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
- Karen Hesse, US writer
- Konrad Hesse, German jurist
- Lebrecht James Chinery-Hesse, Ghanaian lawyer, civil servant and diplomat
- Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse, First black African Rhodes Scholar
- Linda Hesse, German singer
- Lo Hesse, German dancer
- Lucien Hesse, French architect
- Mary Hesse, US philosopher
- Mary Chinery-Hesse, Ghanaian international civil servant and diplomat, first woman Chancellor of the University of Ghana
- Otto Hesse, German mathematician, known for the Hessian matrix
- Parker Hesse, American football player
- Paul Hesse, German malacologist
- Regina Hesse, pioneer woman educator-administrator in colonial Ghana
- Richard Hesse, German zoologist
- Ruth Hesse, German operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto
- Stefan Heße, German Roman Catholic bishop
- Tyson Hesse, American artist
- Virginia Hesse, Ghanaian civil servant and diplomat
- Walther Hesse, German microbiologist