Hess

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Contents 1 Surnames 2 Hessus 3 Hessing 4 Hesser 5 See also 6 External links

Hess can refer to:

• Hess Educational Organization, the largest private provider of English instruction in the Republic of China.
• Hess Corporation, a chain of gasoline stations.
• Hess's Law, a law in chemistry named for Germain Henri Hess.
• H.E.S.S., an experiment in Gamma-ray astronomy.
• Hess's, a defunct department store chain.
• Hess Shoe Company, a shoe store chain in the mid-Atlantic states.
• Carrosserie Hess AG, a commercial vehicle manufacturer in Switzerland. [1]

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[edit] Surnames

• Amy Lynn Hess (1976- ), American dramaturg, painter, and poet.
• Damian Hess aka MC Frontalot, nerdcore rapper
• Dean Hess, American Air Force Colonel
• Dieter Heß/Dieter Hess, German botanist
• Emil Heß, German actor
• Erika Hess, Swiss alpine skier
• Germain Henri Heß/Germain Henri Hess (1802-1850), Russian-Swiss chemist
• Hans Heß, German economic leader
• Harry Hess, a geologist best known for his theories on sea floor spreading.
• Heinrich Freiherr von Heß/Heinrich Freiherr von Hess, Austrian fieldmarshall
• Heinrich Maria von Hess, German painter
• Jared Hess, writer and director of Napoleon Dynamite
• Johann Hess (Hesse), (1490-1547)
• Johann Jakob Hess, (1741-1828)
• Markus Hess, German hacker
• Moses Heß (Moses Hess), Jewish philosopher and proto-Zionist
• Myra Hess, British pianist
• Peter von Hess, German Painter
• Petra Heß, SPD Bundestag member
• Richard Hess (American painter)
• Richard Heß/Richard Hess (sculptor), German sculptor
• Rudolf Hess, a high-ranking Nazi during World War II
• Todd David Hess, (1960-) USAF Colonel, first AF Member to receive Army Legion of Merit.
• Victor Hess (Victor Franz Hess), an Austrian-American physicist who discovered cosmic rays.
• Walter David Hess (1938 - 1991) South African Jewish Educator and Executive Vice President of UIA Canada
• Walter Rudolf Hess, Nobel prize winner in medicine
• Willy Hess (violinist) (1859–1939) famous violin virtuoso and violin teacher
• Willy Hess (composer) (1906–1997) Swiss musicologist, composer, and famous Beethoven scholar
• Wolf Rüdiger Heß/Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German architect, right extremist and son of Rudolf Hess
• Charles Hess, radical dude and member of the xCCx.

[edit] Hessus

Hessus: Latinised variant:

• Hessus (Locris), an ancient city in the Ozolian Locris
• Helius Eobanus Hessus

[edit] Hessing

Hessing:

• Friedrich von Hessing

[edit] Hesser

Hesser:

• Amanda Hesser
• Brennan Hesser
• Carlo Hesser
• Mary K. Hesser / Mary Hesser (1858-1894)

[edit] See also

• Höss/Hoess/Höß/Hoeß (cf.Rudolf Hoess, or Höss or Höß, commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II)
• Hesse
• Hessen
• Hiss
• Heß

[edit] External links

• http://www.saur.de/dbe/pdf/Aufge_Pers_H.pdf