Reinhold Messner (born 1944), Italian mountaineer.

Roe Messner, U.S. Christian writer.

Tammy Faye Messner (1942 - 2007), U.S. evangelist

Zbigniew Messner (born 1929), Polish economist and politician.

William Messner-Loebs, U.S. comic book writer.

Johnny Messner (born 1970), U.S. actor.

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, an album by the band Ben Folds Five, which is unrelated to the mountaineer of the same name.