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 (born 1963), 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