List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Quincy Matthew Hanley, better known by his stage name Schoolboy Q, is a German-born American rapper and songwriter based in South Central Los Angeles, California. In 2009, Hanley signed to Carson-based independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) and in late 2011, secured a recording contract with major label Interscope Records. Hanley is also a member of the hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy, alongside label-mates and fellow California-based rappers Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, and Kendrick Lamar.

Sonya Kraus is a German television presenter and former model.

Horst Janson is a German actor.

Patrick Lange is a professional duathlete and triathlete from Germany. He is the 2017 Ironman World Champion and the 2018 Ironman World Champion both times breaking the course record. Lange is also the 2010-2013 German champion in duathlon and the 2012 and 2013 German champion in team triathlon with EJOT Team TV Buschhütten.

Jochen Behle is a former (West) German cross-country skier who competed from 1980 to 1998.

Dieter Müller is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He achieved his greatest success playing for 1. FC Köln in the Bundesliga in the late 1970s. Müller scored 177 goals in 303 games in the German league, including 6 goals in one game in August 1977, a record that still stands. He also played 12 times for West Germany from 1976 to 1978, scoring 9 goals.

Eugen Weidmann was a German criminal and serial killer who was executed by guillotine in France in June 1939, the last public execution in that country.

Timo Glock is a German professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver.

Sharice Lynnette Davids is an American attorney, former mixed martial artist, and politician serving as the U.S. Representative from Kansas's 3rd congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents a district that includes most of the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including cities such as Kansas City, Overland Park, Prairie Village, Leawood, Lenexa, as well as Olathe.

Bruce Tyrone Maxwell III is German–born American professional baseball catcher in the New York Mets organization. He had played previously with Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican League. He also has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics.