Edmund Hess (17 February 1843 – 24 December 1903) was a German mathematician who discovered several regular polytopes.

• Schläfli–Hess polychoron
• Hess polytope

• Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8 (p. 286)[1]
• Hess E Uber die regulären Polytope höherer Art, Sitzungsber Gesells Beförderung gesammten Naturwiss Marburg, 1885, 31-57