Hesse (surname)
# 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
* 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 (born 1936), 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
