# Heinz (given name)

Heinz is a German given name, a diminutive of Heinrich and cognate of the given name Henry. People with this given name include:

## People with the given name Heinz

* Heinz Allersmeier (1917–2001), German Army officer in World War II
* Heinz von Allmen (1913–2003), Swiss Olympic skier
* Heinz Alt (1922–1945), German composer and victim of the Nazi regime
* Heinz Anger (born 1941), Austrian painter
* Heinz Ansbacher (1904–2006), German-American psychologist
* Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), Australian economist
* Heinz Arnold (1919–1945), German Luftwaffe fighter ace
* Heinz Arzberger (born 1972), Austrian football player
* Heinz Auerswald (1908–1970), German lawyer and member of the SS
* Heinz Barwich (1911–1966), German nuclear physicist
* Heinz Burt (1942–2000), German-born British pop singer
* Heinz Edelmann (1934–2009), German illustrator and designer
* Heinz Fiedler (1929–1993), German general
* Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), German comedian, entertainer and actor
* Heinz Fischer (born 1938), President of Austria
* Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian-American physicist and philosopher
* Heinz Galinski (1912–1992), president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
* Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), German general during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Eastern Front (World War II) and Battle of Moscow
* Heinz-Günther Guderian (1914–2004), German officer in the Wehrmacht and later NATO, son of Heinz Guderian
* Heinz Günthardt (born 1959), Swiss tennis player
* Heinz van Haaren (born 1940), Dutch football player
* Heinz-Harald Frentzen (born 1967), German racing driver
* Heinz Harant (1919—1992), Australian student activist
* Heinz Heck (1894–1982), German biologist and zoo director
* Heinz Werner Höber (1931–1996), prolific pulp fiction author
* Heinz Hoenig (born 1951), German actor
* Heinz Höher (1938–2019), German footballer
* Heinz Höhne (1926–2010), German journalist and historian
* Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), German mathematician
* Heinz-Otto Kreiss (1930–2015), German mathematician
* Heinz Kühn (1912–1992), German politician
* Heinz Kurschildgen, German charlatan
* Heinz Rudolf Kunze (born 1956), German singer
* Heinz Lembke (1937–1981), German right-wing extremist
* Heinz-Georg Lemm (1919–1994), German military officer
* Heinz Linge (1913–1980), SS officer who served as Adolf Hitler's valet
* Heinz A. Lowenstam (1912–1993), German-born, Jewish-American paleoecologist
* Heinz von Lichberg (1890–1951), German author known for his 1916 short story Lolita
* Heinz Magenheimer (born 1943), Austrian historical revisionist
* Heinz Mayr (born 1935), German racewalker
* Heinz Plank (born 1945), German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist
* Heinz von Randow (1890–1942), German army general in World War II
* Heinz Raack (1917-2002), German hockey player
* Heinz Rühmann (1902–1994), German actor
* Heinz Spoerli (born 1940), Swiss choreographer
* Heinz Staab (1926–2012), German chemist and director of the Max Planck Society
* Heinz Steinberger (born 1958), Austrian ice speed skater
* Heinz-Christian Strache (born 1969), Austrian politician and former Vice-Chancellor
* Heinz Weber (born 1976), Austrian former footballer
* Heinz Winckler (born 1978), singer, winner of the first South Africa Idols competition
* Heinz Wolff (1928–2017), German-British scientist and TV presenter
* Heinz Zander (born 1939), German artist and writer

## People better known by other names

* Heinz Alfred Kissinger (Henry Kissinger), German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman
* Heinz Horst Bodo Dettke (Bodo Dettke), a Solomon Islands politician
* Heinz Kurt Bolender (Kurt Bolender), SS officer in World War II
* Heinz Strobl (Gandalf), Austrian New Age composer
* Heinz-Frederic Jolles (Henry Jolles), a German pianist and composer
* Heinz-Georg Kramm (Heino), German singer and entertainer

## Fictional characters

* Heinz, a character from the Japanese animated film Memories
* Heinz, a Dutch comic strip about a grumpy, sarcastic cat by René Windig and Eddie de Jong.
* Heinz Doofenshmirtz, a fictional character from Phineas and Ferb
* Heinz Kruger, a German spy during World War II in the Marvel Comics universe
* Heinz Thorvald, character in the 1999 novel War of the Rats
* Heinz Thorvald, character in the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates