List of East Frisian personalities
The list of East Frisian personalities contains personalities who are important for East Frisia and its history , who have had a significant impact here or whose person is closely associated with the East Frisia region.
Own lists
- List of the counts and princes of East Frisia
- List of presidents of the East Frisian landscape
- List of personalities of the city of Aurich
- List of mayors of the city of Aurich
- List of personalities of the city of Emden
- List of mayors of the city of Leer
- List of personalities from the city of Leer
- List of Norderneyer personalities
- List of mayors of the city of Norderney
- List of mayors of the north city
Film, TV & radio
- Ewald Christophers , journalist, "Voice of East Frisia"
- Heiko Engelkes , journalist, ARD correspondent in Paris, author
- Walter Freiwald , presenter and actor
- Harro Füllgrabe , German editor and moderator
- Okka Gundel , presenter at Sportschau and tagesschau24
- Eva Herman , presenter, news anchor and writer
- Almuth Kook , editor at Schwarzkopf-TV, living room stylist RTL - use in 4 walls
- Wolfgang Petersen , Hollywood director; among others from Das Boot and Troja
- Siemen Rühaak , actor
- Helma Sanders-Brahms , director
- Hajo Wilken , radio editor, set two world records in permanent moderation and won several radio awards
history
- Edzard the Great , East Frisian Count
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs , campaigner for equal rights for homosexuals
- Klaus Störtebeker , pirate during the Hanseatic League
- Balthasar von Esens , freedom fighter and pirate
- Max Windmüller , German-Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Dodo zu Innhausen and Knyphausen , general of the Thirty Years' War
Arts and Culture
- Ludolf Bakhuizen , painter
- Henrich Becker , portrait painter
- Eggerik Beninga , Frisian chronicler
- Otto Buurman , physician, linguist and author
- Herbert Dunkel , art teacher and painter
- Philipp Heinrich Erlebach , composer
- Rudolf Eucken , German Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1908
- Martin Faber , architect, painter and cartographer
- Poppe Folkerts , painter
- Recha Freier born Schweitzer, writer, winner of the Israel State Prize
- Karl Gramberg , painter
- Detlef Hartlap , journalist and non-fiction author
- Enno Wilhelm Hektor , poet
- Hans-Joachim Hespos , composer
- The Ub Iwerks family
- Diedrich Janßen-Jennelt , painter
- Gerhard Harmannus Janssen , painter
- Jan Siefke Kunstreich , art historian and cabaret artist
- Hermann Lübbe , philosopher
- Conrad Bernhard Meyer , architect, businessman
- Johanne Marsänger , painter
- Peter Marx (graphic artist) , miniature painter and graphic artist
- Herbert Müller , painter and art teacher
- Henri Nannen , publisher and publicist
- Bodo Olthoff , painter
- Hildegard Peters , painter
- Ernst Petrich , graphic artist
- Michael Podulke , painter
- Leffert Thelen Poppinga , painter
- Meta Rogall , original and innkeeper
- Johann Gottfried Rohlfs , organ builder
- Uwe Rosenberg , game inventor
- Greta Schoon , poet
- Johann Schoon , writer
- Wilhelmine Siefkes , writer
- Andy Strauss , writer and poetry slammer
- Meinhard Uttecht , painter
- Hans Trimborn , musician and painter
- Ole West , painter
- Klaus-Peter Wolf , writer
Music and stage
- Carl Carlton , rock musician
- Jan Cornelius , songwriter
- Karl Dall , comedian, actor, entertainer
- Hannes Flesner , singer
- HP Baxxter , real name: Hans-Peter Geerdes, front man of the techno combo Scooter
- Enno Popkes , church musician and organ expert
- Al Shean , American-German comedian
- Theodore Thomas , born as Theodor Thomas, musician, composer, founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Otto Waalkes , comedian, actor
- Taddl , rapper, YouTuber
politics
- Gesine Agena , politician and spokeswoman for the Green Youth
- Gila Altmann , Chairwoman of the Greens in Lower Saxony, Parliamentary State Secretary
- Hermann Bontjer , SPD , former MdL in Lower Saxony
- Georg Boomgaarden , Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Spain
- Ysaak Brons , businessman and shipowner, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Hermann Conring , former Member of the Bundestag
- Gitta Connemann , Member of the Bundestag
- Johann Cramer , former Member of the Bundestag
- Elvira Drobinski-Weiß , SPD
- Garrelt Duin , former chairman of the SPD in Lower Saxony, Member of the Bundestag
- Carl Ewen , former Member of the Bundestag
- Hans Forster , former Member of the Bundestag
- Jann Jakobs , SPD, Lord Mayor of Potsdam
- Jann-Peter Janssen , former Member of the Bundestag
- Günter Lüttge , MEP
- Anneliese Poppinga , Konrad Adenauer's secretary
- Reinhold Robbe , former member of the Bundestag and defense commissioner of the Bundestag
- Johann Saathoff , Member of the Bundestag
- Carl Schweckendieck , member of the Prussian state parliament and co-initiator of the expansion of the Emden port
- Wiard Siebels , SPD, MdL in Lower Saxony
- Hinrich Swieter , former Lower Saxony finance minister
- Ulf Thiele , Member of the State Parliament and Secretary General of the CDU in Lower Saxony
- Gitta Trauernicht , German SPD politician
athlete
- Christian Alder , soccer player
- Dieter Eilts , ex-national soccer player, ex-U21 national coach and former coach of Hansa Rostock
- Karsten Fischer , soccer player
- Bernd Flessner , windsurfing professional (15-time German champion)
- Heidi Hartmann (boxer) , boxing world champion
- Marco Kutscher , show jumper (European Championship winner and bronze at the Olympics)
- Silvia Rieger , athlete (hurdles)
- Jan-Gerhard Vestering , ex-soccer player
- Ferydoon Zandi , soccer professional
theology
- Menso Alting
- Johann Gerhard Behrens , Ev.-luth. Pastor and astronomer
- Jörg Buchna , pastor and writer
- David Fabricius , theologian, eminent amateur astronomer and cartographer
- Heinold Fast , Mennonite theologian and important researcher in the field of the Reformation Anabaptist movement
- Otto Galama Houtrouw , theologian and local history researcher
- Ludwig Ihmels , State Bishop of Saxony
- Remmer Janssen , pastor from Strackholt, revival preacher
- Helias Meder
- Peter Johannes de Neui , Baptist pioneer in East Frisia, the Netherlands and the USA
- Eduard Norden , philologist and historian of religion
- Albrecht Oepke , ev. Theologian
- Wiard Popkes , Baptist theologian
- Heinrich Reimers , theologian and local history researcher
- Jann Schmidt , former church president of the Evangelical Reformed Church
- Harm Willms , Baptist "theologian in peasant skirt"
science
- Eggerik Beninga , chronicler
- Hermann Conring , legal scholar
- Reint de Boer , civil engineer
- Ubbo Emmius , pastor, historian and founder of the University of Groningen
- Rudolf Eucken , philosopher
- Johannes Fabricius , one of the discoverers of sunspots
- Wilhelm von Freeden , German mathematician, natural scientist and oceanographer as well as founder of the North German Sea Observatory in Hamburg
- Ludwig Franzius , hydraulic engineer, chief construction director of Bremen
- Wilfried Grunau , engineer and geodesist
- Enne Heeren Dirksen , mathematician
- Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen , Dr. med., first German gynecologist, founder of the German Association of Gynecologists, women's rights activist
- Carl Hinrichs , historian
- Rudolf von Jhering , German lawyer
- Hajo van Lengen , historian, director of the East Frisian Landscape Aurich from 1979 to 2005
- Karl Lohmann , economist
- Hermann Lübbe , philosopher
- Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt , sports physician and med. Supervisor of the German national soccer team and FC Bayern Munich
- Moritz Neumark , industrialist and inventor
- Jabbo Oltmanns , astronomer and mathematician
- Onno Poppinga , agricultural scientist
- Johann Christian Reil , doctor and professor
- Georg Scheller , professor of economics
- Harry Westermann , law professor in Münster
Others
- Jan van Koningsveld , world champion in mental arithmetic
- Günter Saathoff , board member of the Federal Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"
- Minnie Schönberg , mother of the Marx Brothers , from Dornum
- Tamme Hanken , animal healer and TV actor
literature
- Martin Tielke (ed.): Biographical Lexicon for East Friesland . Ostfriesische Landschaft , Aurich 1993 ff. Applied to 5 vols., Vol. 4 2007.