- Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics.
- Ernest Louis, Grand Duke Of Hesse
Ernest Louis Charles Albert William (de: "Ernst Ludwig Karl Albert Wilhelm"), (25 November 1868-9 October 1937) was the last "Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine" from 1892 until his abdication in 1918. His nickname was Ernie. Ernest Louis was the fourth child and eldest son of Grand Duke Louis IV and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
- Princess Elisabeth Of Hesse
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse (Elisabeth Marie Alice Viktoria) (11 March, 1895 - 6 November, 1903), nicknamed Ella, was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and his first wife, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her early death was rumored to be a result of poison meant for her uncle, Tsar Nicholas II, but the court physician said she died of virulent typhoid.
- Elisabeth Of Hesse
Elisabeth of Hesse (13 February 1539 - 14 March 1582) was a German noblewoman. She was a daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse and Christine of Saxony, daughter of George, Duke of Saxony. On 8 July 1560 she married Louis VI, Elector Palatine. They had the following children: # Anna Marie (1561-1589), …
- Prince Frederick Charles Of Hesse
Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (May 1, 1868, Gut Panker - May 28, 1940, Kassel), "Friedrich Karl Ludwig Konstantin Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel" in German, was the brother-in-law of the German Emperor William II and the elected King of Finland from October 9 to December 14, 1918.
- Prince Moritz Of Hesse
Prince Moritz of Hesse ("Moritz Ludwig Georg Wolf, in English, Maurice Louis George Wolf") (born 26 March 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany) is the second child and only son and heir of Heinrich, Hereditary Prince of Hesse and his wife, Countess Floria of Faber-Castell. Moritz is the namesake and grandson of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, who is head of the House of Hesse. He has a twin sister, Princess Paulina. Prince Moritz is the younger twin.
- Prince William Of Hesse
Prince William of Hesse (24 December 1787 - 5 September 1867), son of Prince Frederick of Hesse and Caroline of Nassau-Usingen. His paternal grandparents were Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Mary of Great Britain. He was born in Biebrich.
- Prince Frederick Of Hesse
Prince Frederick of Hesse (11 September 1747 - 20 May 1837) was a younger member of the dynasty that ruled the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and a Danish general. He was born as the youngest son of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (the future Landgrave Frederick II) and Princess Mary of Great Britain. His father, the then hereditary prince (who reigned from 1760 and died in 1785) had in 1747 left the family and soon converted Catholicism, …
- Charles Of Hesse
Charles of Hesse (Danish: Carl af Hessen;) (Kassel 19 December 1744 - Luisenlund 17 August 1836) was born in Kassel as the second surviving son of Kassel's then hereditary prince, the future Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and his first wife Princess Mary of Great Britain. His mother was a daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach.
- Prince Wolfgang Of Hesse
Prince Wolfgang Maurice of Hesse (6 November 1896, castle Rumpenheim - 12 July 1989), was the designated Hereditary Prince of the monarchy of Finland, and as such, already called the Crown Prince of Finland officially until 14 December, 1918, and also afterwards by some monarchists. He was the second-born of a pair of twins, the fourth child and son born to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868-1940) and Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872-1954).
- Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (pronounced) (2 July 1877 - 9 August 1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include "Steppenwolf", "Siddhartha", and "The Glass Bead Game" (also known as "Magister Ludi") which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society.
- Otto Hesse
Ludwig Otto Hesse was a German mathematician. Hesse was born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and died in Munich, Germany. He worked on algebraic invariants. The Hessian curve, Hessian matrix and the Hesse normal form are named after him.
- Mary Hesse
Mary B. Hesse (born 1924) is a contemporary English philosopher of science. She is now professor emerita of the philosophy of science at Cambridge University. Her publication "Models and Analogies in Science" is a widely cited and accessible introduction to the topic.
- Karen Hesse
Karen Hesse, born August 29, 1952, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is an author of children's literature and literature for young adults. She is best known as a writer of historical fiction. She has received many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, and the 1998 Newbery medal for her book "Out of the Dust", a story of a girl living through the dust bowl of the depression.
- Marcus Hesse
Marcus Hesse (b. March 22, 1984 in Dresden) is a German footballer who currently plays for Dynamo Dresden.
- Konrad Hesse
Konrad Hesse was a German Jurisprudence scientist and he was, from 1975 to 1987, Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Hesse hit the scientific career after his education in Law. He obtained his doctorate degree in 1950, and was habilited in 1955 at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. His habilitation covered State, Administration and Canon Laws. His first ordinary was received in 1965 at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg.
- Arno Hesse
Arno Hesse was a German athlete. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. In the 1500 metres, Hesse placed seventh and last in his initial semifinal heat and did not advance to the final.
- Thomas Hesse
Thomas Hesse is President of Sony BMG Music Entertainment's Global Digital Business and US Sales. He reports directly to Tim Bowen, Chief Operating Officer for Sony BMG Music Entertainment. He is based in New York City. Hesse was appointed to the position of President in charge of Global Digital Business upon the completion of the SONY BMG merger in 2004. Since the beginning of 2007 he was also put in charge of SONY BMG's physical sales activities in the US, …
- Adolf Friedrich Hesse
Adolf Friedrich Hesse was a German organist and composer. Hesse studied in Breslau with the organists Friedrich Wilhelm Berner and Ernst Köhler. In 1831, he became the First Organist at the Bernhardinkirche in his hometown. Considered one of the most important organists in Germany, he also excited audiences in Paris and London with his virtuosic pedalwork. Back in Breslau, he conducted the symphonic concerts of the city's Opera Orchestra.
- Ewald Hesse
Ewald Hesse (1958) is a Peruvian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in Lima, he studied in the National Conservatory of his hometown piano and composition. He was a student from Edgar Valcárcel. He lives in Germany since 1978, where he completed his musical education at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie Detmold.
- Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke Hesse
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse ("Georg Donatus Wilhelm Nikolaus Eduard Heinrich Karl", 8 November, 1906- 16 November, 1937) was the first child of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich.
- Heinrich, Hereditary Prince Of Hesse
Heinrich Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Hesse ("Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto") (born 17 October, 1967) is the eldest son and heir of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, head of the House of Hesse and his former wife, Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. Prince Heinrich's father became the head of the Hesse-Kassel line on the death of his father Philip on in 1980, thus becoming head of the entire House of Hesse. In 1989, his uncle Prince Wolfgang of Hesse died, …
- Moritz, Landgrave Of Hesse
Moritz, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (full name: "Moritz Friedrich Karl Emanuel Humbert Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel", Italian: "Maurizio d'Assia"; born August 6, 1926) is the son of Prince Philip, Landgrave of Hesse and is the head of the House of Hesse.
- Princess Paulina Of Hesse
Princess Paulina of Hesse ("Paulina Elisabeth Adelheid Tatiana Suzanne, in English, Pauline Elizabeth Adelaide Tatiana Susanne") (born 26 March 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany) is the first child and only daughter of Heinrich, Hereditary Prince of Hesse and his wife, Countess Floria of Faber-Castell. She has a twin brother Prince Moritz. Princess Paulina is the elder twin.
- Christine Of Hesse
Christine of Hesse-Kassel (29 June 1543 - 13 May 1604) was duchess of Holstein-Gottorp as a wife of Duke Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp. Christine was born in Kassel as a daughter of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and his wife Christine of Saxony.
- Chris Hesse
Christopher River Hesse is the drummer for alt-pop metal band Hoobastank. He was born on January 24, 1974 in Humboldt County, California.
- Gudrun Zapf-Von Hesse
Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (b. 1918) is a typographer, calligrapher and book-binder. She is the 1991 winner of the Fredrick W. Goudy Award. She designed several fonts for the type foundry D. Stempel AG, such as Diotima (1955). She served a book-binding apprenticeship with Otto Dorfner. Zapf von Hesse is married to Hermann Zapf.
- Walter Hesse
Walter Hesse is best known for his work in microbiology, specifically his work in developing Agar as a medium for culturing microorganisms. Hesse joined Robert Koch's laboratory (effectively in a post-doctoral position) to study air quality. Hesse was convinced that microorganisms were presesnt everywhere, even in the air. He used a series of filters, made mainly from wadding, in attempts to capture and observe microorganisms.
- Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (b. January 28, 1946, Naumburg) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Hesse. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
- Roland Koch
Roland Koch (born March 24 1958 in Frankfurt am Main), German politician, has been Minister-President of Hesse since April 7 1999, immediately becoming President of the Bundesrat completing the term began by Hans Eichel, his predecessor as Minister President, who became Federal Minister of Finance. In 1979 he became the youngest person to hold the office of chair of the CDU youth group in the Main-Taunus district.
- Rudi Völler
Rudolf 'Rudi' Völler is a German former international football striker, and a former manager of the German national team. He won the FIFA World Cup in 1990 as a player and coached the national team to second place at the 2002 World Cup. He was born in Hanau, Hesse.
- Franz Josef Jung
Franz Josef Jung (born 5 March 1949) is a German politician and is married to Beate Jung. (CDU). He became Federal Minister of Defence in the Grand coalition cabinet of Angela Merkel on November 22, 2005. After his military service, Franz Josef Jung studied law at the University of Mainz and is a lawyer and civil law notary. In his political career, he held various party functions in Hesse (currently as vice chairman of the CDU there) and also served as a state minister.
- Guido Knopp
Guido Knopp (born January 29, 1948, in Treysa, Hesse) is a German historian, author and journalist. He is perhaps the currently best known and most popular historian in Germany, mainly because he has produced a lot of TV-Documentations, predominantly about the "Third Reich" and National Socialism, but also about others, like Stalinism.
- Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 - 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian. He was the author of the encyclopaedia "On the Nature of Things". He also wrote treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible. He was one of the most prominent teachers and writers of the Carolingian age.
- Michel Friedman
Michel Friedman (born January 25, 1956 in Paris) is a German lawyer, CDU politician and talk show host. From 2000 to 2003 he was Vice President of the Council of German Jews, the leading Jewish umbrella organization in Germany, and from 2001 to 2003 President of the European Jewish Congress. From 1998 to 2003 he had his own TV show "Vorsicht ! Friedman" (Careful! Friedman) regional public TV station for Hesse.
- Lullus
Saint Lullus (Lull or Lul) (born about 710 in Wessex, died 16 October 786 in Hersfeld) was the first permanent archbishop of Mainz, succeeding Saint Boniface, and first abbot of the Benedictine Hersfeld Abbey. His name is the latinized form of Lul, a short version of Germanic names that begin with the syllable "Lud" or "Lut" (e.g., Lutger, Ludwig). He was monk in the Benedictine monastery of Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire.
- Holger Börner
Holger Börner was a German politician of the SPD. He was Minister-President of Hesse from 1976 until 1987. As such he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1986/87, but only served until the Landtag elections of 24 April 1987 Afterwards (until 2003) he was chairman of the ":de:Friedrich Ebert Stiftung", the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, also known as (FES).
- Sabrina Setlur
Sabrina Setlur (born January 10, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse) is a three-time ECHO-winning German rapper, songwriter and occasional actress.
- Alfred Dregger
Alfred Dregger was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Dregger was born in Münster. After graduating from a school in Werl, Dregger entered the German Wehrmacht in 1939. He served until the end of the war rising to the rank of officer. In 1946 he began studying law, eventually achieving a doctorate in 1950.
- Jürgen Ponto
Jürgen Ponto was a German banker and chairman of the Dresdner Bank board of directors. Ponto was shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel, Hesse, Germany, in a botched kidnapping attempt by the terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF). Those involved in the murder of Ponto were Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last being Ponto's goddaughter.