List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Aymen Barkok is a German-Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Morocco national team.

Harald Weyel is a German politician. Born in Herborn, Hesse, he represents Alternative for Germany (AfD). Harald Weyel has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.

Melanie Pfeifer is a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2003 to 2016.

Christian Alvart is a German filmmaker and screenwriter.

Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a German diplomat. He is remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which provided a pretext for the Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass".

Hans Eichel is a German politician (SPD) and the co-founder of the G20, or "Group of Twenty", an international forum for the governments and central bank governors of twenty developed and developing nations to discuss policy issues pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability.

Bernhard Trares is a German former professional footballer who played mainly as a centre-back, and current manager of Würzburger Kickers.

Oliver Stokowski is a German film and stage actor. He is best known for his per formance as Schütte - Prisoner No. 82 in Das Experiment. In 2014 he won the Grimme-Preis.

Carolin Simon is a German football player for Bayern Munich.

Katharina Bauer is a German athlete specialising in the pole vault. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without qualifying for the final. In addition, she twice reached the final at the European Indoor Championships.