Hess can refer to:

• Hess Educational Organization, the largest private provider of English instruction in the Republic of China.
• Amerada Hess, a chain of gasoline stations.
• Hess's Law, a law in chemistry named for Germain Henri Hess.
• H.E.S.S., an experiment in Gamma-ray astronomy.
• Hess's, a defunct department store chain
• Hess Shoe Company - a shoe store chain in the mid-Atlantic states.

Surnames

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• Dieter Heß/Dieter Hess, German botanist
• Erika Hess, Swiss alpine skier
• Germain Henri Heß/Germain Henri Hess (1802-1850), Russian-Swiss chemist
• Harry Hess, a geologist best known for his theories on sea floor spreading.
• Heinrich von Heß/Heinrich von Hess, Austrian fieldmarshall
• Heinrich Maria von Hess, German painter
• Jared Hess, writer and director of Napoleon Dynamite
• Johann Hess (Hesse), (1490-1547)
• Johann Jakob Hess, (1741-1828)
• Markus Hess, German hacker
• Moses Heß (Moses Hess), Jewish philosopher and proto-Zionist
• Myra Hess, British pianist
• Peter von Hess, German Painter
• Richard Hess (American painter)
• Richard Heß/Richard Hess (sculptor), German sculptor
• Rudolf Hess, a high-ranking Nazi during World War II
• Victor Hess (Victor Franz Hess), an Austrian-American physicist who discovered cosmic rays.
• Walter Rudolf Hess, Nobel prize winner in medicine
• Wolf Rüdiger Heß/Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German architect, right extremist and son of Rudolf Hess

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