Hess (surname)

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Hess or Heß as a surname may refer to:

  • András Hess, Hungarian printer
  • Damian Hess aka MC Frontalot, nerdcore rapper
  • Dean Hess (born 1917), American Air Force Colonel
  • Erika Hess (born 1962), Swiss alpine skier
  • Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850), Russian-Swiss chemist
  • Hans-Georg Hess (1923 - 2008), German U-boat captain
  • Harry Hess (1906–1969), American geologist best known for his theories on sea floor spreading
  • Heinrich von Heß (1788–1870), Austrian fieldmarshall
  • Heinrich Maria von Hess, German painter
  • Jacob Hess, New York City Police Commissioner
  • Jared Hess (born 1979), American writer and director of Napoleon Dynamite
  • Johann Hess (Hesse), (1490–1547)
  • Johann Jakob Hess, (1741–1828)
  • Kenneth Shayne Hess, (born 1961), American writer and filmmaker
  • Markus Hess, German hacker
  • Moses Hess (1812–1875), Jewish philosopher and proto-Zionist
  • Myra Hess (1890–1965), British pianist
  • Nigel Hess, British Composer
  • Orvan Hess (1906–2002), doctor who invented the fetal heart monitor
  • Peter von Hess, German Painter
  • Petra Heß, SPD Bundestag member
  • Richard Hess (American painter) (born 1934)
  • Rudolf Hess (Heß) (1894–1987), Deputy Führer of Nazi Germany
  • Todd David Hess, (born 1960), USAF Colonel, first AF Member to receive Army Legion of Merit
  • Victor Francis Hess (1883–1964), 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 (1881–1973), Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949
  • Willy Hess (violinist) (1859–1939), German famous violin virtuoso
  • Willy Hess (composer) (1906–1997), Swiss musicologist, composer, and famous Beethoven scholar
  • Wolf Rüdiger Hess (Heß) (1937–2001), German architect, right extremist and son of Rudolf Hess

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