List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Barbara Hund is a chess woman grandmaster. Originally German, she is now Swiss. Barbara Hund is the daughter of Juliane and Gerhard Hund and the granddaughter of Friedrich Hund and Ingeborg Seynsche.

Wolfgang Drechsler is a Public Administration and Management, Innovation Policy and Political Philosophy scholar. He is Professor of Governance, and one of the founders and directors of the Technology Governance program, at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, where between 2010 and 2016 he also served as Vice Dean for International Relations at its Faculty of Social Sciences. Since 2017, he is also affiliated with Harvard University, as a Davis Center Associate and a member of the center’s Advisory Board, and since 2019, with University College London, where he is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).

Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party since 1965.

Johann Jakob "Hans" Opel was a German industrialist from the Opel family.

Marcel Ophuls is a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films The Sorrow and the Pity and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.