List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Yunus Mallı is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Turkish national team.

Daniela Schadt is a German journalist, and, since 2000, the domestic partner of Joachim Gauck, former President of Germany, who has been legally married since 1959 to Gerhild Radtke. She has sometimes been referred to by the media as "First Lady".

Anne Weber is a German-French author, translator and self-translator. Since 1983 Anne Weber has lived in Paris. She studied in Paris and worked for several editors. Anne Weber started writing and publishing in French, but immediately translated her first book Ida invente la poudre into German Ida erfindet das Schießpulver. Since then she writes each of her books in French and German. Her self-translations are often published at the same time in France and Germany. In 2005 she received the 3Sat award at the Festival of German-Language Literature. For her translation of Pierre Michon she received a European translation award, the Europäischer Übersetzerpreis Offenburg. She was awarded the 2020 German Book Prize.

Dietrich ("Didi") Thurau is a retired German professional road bicycle racer. His biggest career achievements include winning the one-day classic, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, his home country's Deutschland Tour and surprising the field at the 1977 Tour de France by capturing four stages and holding the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification from the prologue for 15 days. Thurau did win the young rider classification although he lost the overall lead to eventual winner Bernard Thévenet.

Lisa Hahner is a German long distance runner who specialises in the marathon.

Martin Hebner was a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.

Stefan Quandt is a German billionaire heir, engineer and industrialist.

Monika 'Mo' Yaa akoma Asumang is a German presenter, filmmaker, actress and writer. She created the 2014 documentary The Aryans, in which she confronts racists in both Germany and the US.

Jan Tilman Kirchhoff is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for KFC Uerdingen 05.

Robert William Ray is an American lawyer. As the successor to Ken Starr as the head of the Office of the Independent Counsel he investigated and issued the final reports on the Whitewater controversy, the White House travel office controversy, and the White House FBI files controversy. Before that he was Deputy Independent Counsel investigating former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy and before that Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.