List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Ruth Wagner is a German politician for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and was from 1999 to 2003 deputy prime minister of the federal state of Hesse.

Ursula Sladek owns a small local power company, Schönau Power Supply, located in Schönau im Schwarzwald, Germany, that provides electricity from renewable energy sources to the German electricity grid. Her company "gets much of its energy from small local energy producers, including a handful of hydropower operations, solar panels, some wind turbines, and about 20 washing-machine-size co-generation plants in people’s homes that produce both heat for the home and electricity for the grid". Sladek has also been interested in finding ways of rendering nuclear power unnecessary in Germany: Sladek won a Goldman Environmental Prize in 2011.

Bernd Siebert is a German politician. Born in Gudensberg, Hesse, he represents the CDU. Bernd Siebert has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 1994 till 2009, from 2010 till 2017 and since 2020.