Jess

Given name

• Jess Atkinson, American football player
• Jess Cain, American radio host
• Jess Cates, American songwriter
• Jess Collins, American visual artist
• Jess Conrad, British actor
• Jess H. Dickinson, American judge
• Jess E. DuBois, American painter
• Jess Folley, English singer
• Jess Glynne, English singer and songwriter
• Jess Hahn, American actor
• Jess Harnell, American voice actor
• Jess Hartley, American writer
• Jess Herbst, American politician
• Jess Hill, American athlete and coach
• Jess Hill, Australian investigative reporter and author
• Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., American wine entrepreneur
• Jess Klein, American singer/songwriter
• Jess Liaudin, French mixed martial artist
• Jess Lee, Canadian country music singer
• Jess Lee
• Jess Margera, American drummer
• Jess McMahon, American professional wrestling and professional boxing promoter, patriarch of the McMahon family of businesspeople and promoters
• Jess Mortensen, American multi-sport college athlete and track-and-field coach
• Jess Mowry, American author
• Jess Nevins, American author
• Jess Oppenheimer, American television writer
• Jess Phillips
• Jess J. Present, American politician
• Jess Richardson, American football player
• Jess Robbins, American film director
• Jess Roden, British musician
• Jess Roskelley, American mountaineer
• Jess Row, American writer
• Jess Stacy, American jazz pianist
• Jess Stearn, American journalist and author
• Jess Thomas, American opera singer
• Jess Thorup, Danish former footballer
• Jess Vanstrattan, Australian soccer player
• Jess von der Ahe, American artist
• Jess Walter, American author
• Jess Walton, American actress
• Jess Weixler, American actress
• Jess Willard, American boxer
• Jess Winfield, American writer
• Jess Yates, British television presenter

  Surname

• Carl Jess, Australian Army lieutenant general
• Eoin Jess, Scottish former footballer
• Jim Jess, retired Australian rules football player
• John Jess, Australian politician
• Matt Jess, English rugby union player
• Tyehimba Jess, American poet
• Walter Jess, Canadian politician

  Fictional characters

• Jess Bhamra, in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham
• Jess Mariano, in the television series Gilmore Girls
• Jess, in the British television series Misfits
• Jess, the eponymous New Girl on the FOX sitcom.
• Jess Riley, playable character in the survival horror game Until Dawn
• Jess Squirrel, in the Redwall novels by Brian Jacques
• Jess Tamblyn, in the Saga of Seven Suns novels by Kevin J. Anderson
• Jess Warner, in the Australian soap opera Wentworth
• Jess the cat, in the Postman Pat universe