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 (1917–2001), German Army officer in World War II
 * Heinz von Allmen (1913–2003), Swiss Olympic skier
 * Heinz Alt (1922–1945), German composer and victim of the Nazi regime
 * Heinz Anger (born 1941), Austrian painter
 * Heinz Ansbacher (1904–2006), German-American psychologist
 * Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), Australian economist
 * Heinz Arnold (1919–1945), German Luftwaffe fighter ace
 * Heinz Arzberger (born 1972), Austrian football player
 * Heinz Auerswald (1908–1970), German lawyer and member of the SS
 * Heinz Barwich (1911–1966), German nuclear physicist
 * Heinz Burt (1942–2000), German-born British pop singer
 * Heinz Edelmann (1934–2009), German illustrator and designer
 * Heinz Fiedler (1929–1993), German general
 * Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), German comedian, entertainer and actor
 * Heinz Fischer (born 1938), President of Austria
 * Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian-American physicist and philosopher
 * Heinz Galinski (1912–1992), president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
 * Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), German general during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Eastern Front (World War II) and Battle of Moscow
 * Heinz-Günther Guderian (1914–2004), German officer in the Wehrmacht and later NATO, son of Heinz Guderian
 * Heinz Günthardt (born 1959), Swiss tennis player
 * Heinz van Haaren (born 1940), Dutch football player
 * Heinz-Harald Frentzen (born 1967), German racing driver
 * Heinz Harant (1919—1992), Australian student activist
 * Heinz Heck (1894–1982), German biologist and zoo director
 * Heinz Werner Höber (1931–1996), prolific pulp fiction author
 * Heinz Hoenig (born 1951), German actor
 * Heinz Höher (1938–2019), German footballer
 * Heinz Höhne (1926–2010), German journalist and historian
 * Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), German mathematician
 * Heinz-Otto Kreiss (1930–2015), German mathematician
 * Heinz Kühn (1912–1992), German politician
 * Heinz Kurschildgen, German charlatan
 * Heinz Rudolf Kunze (born 1956), German singer
 * Heinz Lembke (1937–1981), German right-wing extremist
 * Heinz-Georg Lemm (1919–1994), German military officer
 * Heinz Linge (1913–1980), SS officer who served as Adolf Hitler's valet
 * Heinz A. Lowenstam (1912–1993), German-born, Jewish-American paleoecologist
 * Heinz von Lichberg (1890–1951), German author known for his 1916 short story Lolita
 * Heinz Magenheimer (born 1943), Austrian historical revisionist
 * Heinz Mayr (born 1935), German racewalker
 * Heinz Plank (born 1945), German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist
 * Heinz von Randow (1890–1942), German army general in World War II
 * Heinz Raack (1917-2002), German hockey player
 * Heinz Rühmann (1902–1994), German actor
 * Heinz Spoerli (born 1940), Swiss choreographer
 * Heinz Staab (1926–2012), German chemist and director of the Max Planck Society
 * Heinz Steinberger (born 1958), Austrian ice speed skater
 * Heinz-Christian Strache (born 1969), Austrian politician and former Vice-Chancellor
 * Heinz Weber (born 1976), Austrian former footballer
 * Heinz Winckler (born 1978), singer, winner of the first South Africa Idols competition
 * Heinz Wolff (1928–2017), German-British scientist and TV presenter
 * Heinz Zander (born 1939), German artist and writer

People better known by other names

 * Heinz Alfred Kissinger (Henry Kissinger), German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman
 * Heinz Horst Bodo Dettke (Bodo Dettke), a Solomon Islands politician
 * Heinz Kurt Bolender (Kurt Bolender), SS officer in World War II
 * Heinz Strobl (Gandalf), Austrian New Age composer
 * Heinz-Frederic Jolles (Henry Jolles), a German pianist and composer
 * Heinz-Georg Kramm (Heino), 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
 * Heinz, main character in Luka Karnstein's "The Meeting Place"