List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Thorwald Proll is a writer and was active in the German student movement in the 1960s.

Cha Du-ri is a retired South Korean professional footballer. He played as a right back, right winger, or striker. He is the first Korean player who was born outside of Korea to have played in a FIFA World Cup. Cha's father, Cha Bum-Kun played in the 1986 World Cup. Cha Du-Ri has also played for one of his father's old clubs, Eintracht Frankfurt. During the third-place match of the 2011 AFC Asian Cup against Uzbekistan, Cha captained the national team in place of the regular Korean captain, Park Ji-Sung.

Gerhard Kleppinger is a former German footballer and current manager of SV Sandhausen.

Melody Perkins is an American actress, model and dancer. She is known for her regular role as the villainess later turned heroine Astronema/Karone in Power Rangers in Space, and became the Pink Ranger in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.

Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He also holds a visiting position at Stony Brook University, and is one of the founding members of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory.

Marc Stendera is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for 3. Liga club FC Ingolstadt 04.

Carolin Martina Leonhardt is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the 2000s. She won two medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won a silver in the K-4 500 m.

Franz Maria Liedig was a Kriegsmarine officer and member of the military resistance against Adolf Hitler.

Fritz Weitzel was a German SS commander during the Nazi era.

Ernst Glaeser was a German author, known for his best-selling pacifist novel Jahrgang 1902. He was associated with the political left, and went into exile in Switzerland at the start of the Nazi era after his books had been publicly burned. However, he returned to Germany in 1939, a decision that was attacked by other exiles.