List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany
Johannes Masing
Johannes Masing is a German jurisprudent, public law and former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
Michael Herrmann
Michael Herrmann is a German culture and music administrator. He founded the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1987 and is its Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer. He also runs a concert agency in the Frankfurt Alte Oper, the Pro Arte Konzertdirektion, and started an agency for concerts in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden in 2019, Wiesbaden Musik, beginning with a concert on his 75th birthday.
Bernhard Sinkel
Bernhard Sinkel is a German film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1993. He co-shared the Special Recognition award at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival for the film Germany in Autumn. His film Put on Ice was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Bernhard Sinkel worked together with Alf Brustellin as a director and screenwriter team until Brustellin's death 1981.
Susanne Fröhlich
Susanne Fröhlich is a German author and journalist.
Franz Rath
Franz Erhard Walther
Rudolf Bernhardt
Rudolf Bernhardt was a German judge. He represented Germany on the European Court of Human Rights from 1981 to 1998 and served as President of the Court from 24 March to 31 October 1998.
Gerd Binnig
Gerd Binnig is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.