Hesse (surname)
Hesse is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adolf Friedrich Hesse, German composer
- Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
- Christian Heinrich Friedrich Hesse, German pastor and naturalist
- Eva Hesse , painter and sculptor
- Eva Hesse , writer and translator
- Hermann Hesse, German-born poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
- Karen Hesse, US writer
- Konrad Hesse, German jurist
- Linda Hesse, German singer
- Lucien Hesse, French architect
- Mary Hesse, US philosopher
- Otto Hesse, German mathematician, known for the Hessian matrix
- Paul Hesse, German malacologist
- Richard Hesse, German zoologist
- Ruth Hesse, German operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto
- Stefan Heße, German Roman Catholic bishop
- Walther Hesse, German microbiologist
- Lo Hesse, German dancer
