Hesse (surname)

Hesse is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adolf Friedrich Hesse (1809–1863), 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 (born 1993), French tennis player
• Jerahmey Hess (born 1988), American adult film star
• Chris Tsui Hesse (born 1932), cinematographer, filmmaker, prison reform campaigner and Presbyterian minister
• Christian Heinrich Friedrich Hesse (1772-1832), German pastor and naturalist
• Eva Hesse (1936–1970), painter and sculptor
• Herman Chinery-Hesse (1963–2024), Ghanaian technology entrepreneur and founder of the SOFTribe
• Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-born poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
• Karen Hesse (born 1952), US writer
• Konrad Hesse (1919–2005), German jurist
• Lebrecht James Chinery-Hesse (1930–2018), Ghanaian lawyer, civil servant and diplomat
• Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse (1934–2000), First black African Rhodes Scholar
• Linda Hesse (born 1987), German singer
• Lo Hesse (1889–1983?), German dancer
• Lucien Hesse (1866-1929), French architect
• Mary Hesse (1924–2016), US philosopher
• Mary Chinery-Hesse (born 1938), Ghanaian international civil servant and diplomat, first woman Chancellor of the University of Ghana
• Otto Hesse (1811–1874), German mathematician, known for the Hessian matrix
• Parker Hesse (born 1995), American football player
• Paul Hesse (1857–1938), German malacologist
• Regina Hesse (1832–1898), pioneer woman educator-administrator in colonial Ghana
• Richard Hesse (1868–1944), German zoologist
• Ruth Hesse (1936–2024), German operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto
• Stefan Heße (born 1966), German Roman Catholic bishop
• Virginia Hesse (born 1944), Ghanaian civil servant and diplomat
• Walther Hesse (1846–1911), German microbiologist