Hess or Heß as a surname may refer to:

• 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
• 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
• Jared Hess (born 1979), American writer and director of Napoleon Dynamite
• Johann Hess (Hesse), (1490–1547)
• Johann Jakob Hess, (1741–1828)
• Markus Hess, German hacker
• Moses Hess (1812–1875), Jewish philosopher and proto-Zionist
• Myra Hess (1890–1965), British pianist
• 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

See also

• Rudolf Hoess (also Höss or Höß), commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II
• Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488–1540), German Latin poet

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