List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Tayfur Havutçu is a Turkish international football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Süper Lig club Kasımpaşa.

Adrienne McQueen (1983) is a German-American actress.

Sebastian Schulte is a German rower. He rowed in the 2007 University Boat Race.

Markus Rühl is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder. Rühl began training at the age of 18 following a doctor's recommendation after sustaining a knee injury while playing football. At 120 lb., Rühl began training hard six days a week until deciding to compete on a professional level five years later. During this period he worked as a used-car salesman. Rühl signed a sponsorship deal with the famous brand Ultimate Nutrition in late 2008. In 2018 he started his own supplement company, Rühl's Bestes.

Christian Lammert is a German politologist.

Sabine Hossenfelder is a German author and theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies where she leads the Superfluid Dark Matter group. She is the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, which explores the concept of elegance in fundamental physics and cosmology.

Özer Hurmacı is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Bursaspor. He was a regular on the Turkey national under-21 football team.

Susan Blakely is an American actress and model. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno (1974), Report to the Commissioner (1975), Capone (1975), The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979) and Over the Top (1987).

Benjamin Hübner is a German professional footballer who plays for Bundesliga side 1899 Hoffenheim.

Rainer Kaufmann is a German film director. He directed more than thirty films including The Pharmacist and Operation Zucker, a film about human trafficking.