List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Erol Bulut is a Turkish former footballer and the current manager of Fenerbahçe. As a player, he won two Greek League Championships and one Greek Cup (2005–06) with Olympiacos and one Turkish League Championship with Fenerbahçe in the 1995–96 season.

Daniela Alfinito is a German schlager singer from Hesse, Germany. She achieved first chart success with her 2015 album Ein bisschen sterben and reached number one in Germany with her 2019 and 2020 albums Du warst jede Träne wert and Liebes-Tattoo.

Pamela Dutkiewicz is a German athlete who specialises in hurdling. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics where she finished 4th in her semifinal for the women's 100 m hurdles and did not advance to the final. She won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships.

Thomas Berthold is a former German footballer and manager, who played as a defender. He currently works as a pundit and analyst for several TV stations.

Marek Lieberberg is a German-Jewish concert promoter, best known for founding and organising the Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals. In 2013, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the European Festivals Awards.

Gottfried Böhm is a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne chapel "Madonna in the Rubble". Böhm's most influential and recognized building is the Maria, Königin des Friedens or Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom.

Ronald Clyde Gardenhire is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played as a shortstop for the New York Mets from 1981 through 1985. After another year playing in the minor leagues, he served as a manager in the Minnesota Twins' farm system for three years, then as a coach for the Twins from 1991 through 2001, and then as the Twins' manager from 2002 through 2014, winning the American League Manager of the Year Award in 2010. He then coached for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2017 and managed of the Detroit Tigers from 2018 through most of 2020, when he retired from baseball.

Volker Schlöndorff is a German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Annika Zimmermann is a German television personality and journalist.

Steffen Fäth is a German handball player for Rhein-Neckar Löwen and the German national team.