Hessel (surname)

Hessel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Bernd Hessel (born 1961), West German sprint canoeist
 * Franz Hessel (1880–1941), German author, translator and lecturer
 * Katja Hessel (born 1972), German politician
 * Lasse Hessel (1940–2019), Danish doctor and inventor
 * Johann F. C. Hessel (1796–1872), German physician and mineralogist
 * Katja Hessel (born 1972), German politician
 * Mats Hessel (born 1961), Swedish ice hockey player
 * Phoebe Hessel (1713–1812), woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the British Army
 * Stéphane Hessel (1917–2013), French Resistance fighter, diplomat, and writer