List of personalities of the city of Mayen
The list of personalities of the city of Mayen contains personalities who were born or worked in Mayen .
Honorary citizen
An honorary citizenship lasts until the end of your life if it is not revoked.
- Johann Ernst Adams (1827–1907), retired mayor. D., Go. Government and Provincial Council
- Berthold von Nasse (1831–1906), Upper President of the Rhine Province
- Rudolf Grennebach (1840–1912), retired mayor D.
- Karl Li (e) tzmann (1850–1936), retired general D.
- Johannes Thees (1876–1958), Dean, Geistl. Council hc
- Roger Mouza (1915-2003), Maire de Joigny
- Dr. Heinrich Dahmen (1901–1988), retired mayor D.
- Josef Hennerici (1890–1974), retired mayor D.
- Hans Seichter (1923–2005) politician, retired mayor D., member of the state parliament a. D.
- Paul Knüpper (1930–2006), former member of the state parliament D.
- Moritz J. Weig (1931–2005), entrepreneur
- Mario Adorf (* 1930), actor and writer
- Ewald A. Hoppen (* 1938), entrepreneur
- Therese Tutas (* 1935), housewife
- Albert Nell (born 1935), retired Lord Mayor D., District Administrator a. D.
- Rolf Schumacher (born 19), former rector D.
Former honorary citizens
- Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Reich Chancellor
Mayen personalities
- Stephan Ackermann (* 1963), bishop
- Heinrich Alken (1753–1827), sculptor and painter
- Bruno Becher (1898–1961), Minister of Justice
- Klaus Berndl (* 1966), writer and historian
- Heribert Bickel (1927–2010), Minister of Justice
- Christoph Böhr (* 1954), politician
- Carl Burger (1875–1950), sculptor
- Reinhard Dauber (* 1942), art historian and architect
- Josef Endres (1927–1998), trade unionist and politician, member of the state parliament of the SPD
- Kurt Faßbender (* 1968), legal scholar
- Horst Feilzer (1957–2009), football player
- Willi Fischer (1920–1991), politician and member of the Bundestag for the SPD
- Josef Maria Frank (1895–1975), writer
- Emil van Hauth (1899–1974), painter
- Christoph Friedrich Heinle (1894–1914), poet
- Werner Helmes (1925–2008), writer and local historian
- Günther Hennerici (1924–2000), entrepreneur and motorsport team boss
- Marc Hennerici (* 1982), racing driver
- Jürgen Hosemann (* 1967), German author and editor
- Wolfgang Junglas (* 1955), journalist and TV producer
- Wolfgang Kaes (* 1958), writer
- Viktor Kaifer (1831–1913), local poet, mayor of Andernach, Mülheim am Rhein and Mönchengladbach
- Paul Knüpper (1930–2006), politician, member of the CDU state parliament
- Hans Koeppen (1913–1977), historian and archivist
- Emmy Kreiten-Barido (1894–1985), singer and mother of the pianist Karlrobert Kreiten
- Balthasar Krems (1760–1813), inventor of the sewing machine
- Tim Kruse (* 1983), soccer player
- Werner Lamberz (1929–1978), member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR .
- Jacques Loeb (1859-1924), biologist
- Christoph Marzi (* 1970), writer
- Sally Mayer (1889–1944), Jewish doctor, accompanied his patients to the Theresienstadt concentration camp
- Dominik Meffert (* 1981), tennis player
- Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer and founder of the cooperative movement, was district secretary in Mayen and church administrator for the Mayen Evangelical Church
- Elisabeth Roock (1919–1995), Lord Mayor of Solingen
- Frank Roos (* 1976), cameraman and film producer
- Siegfried Rosenthal (1888–20th century), shipping entrepreneur
- Reinhard Saftig (* 1952), soccer coach and manager
- Winfried Schäfer (* 1950), soccer player and coach
- Hans-Ludwig Schilling (1927–2012), composer
- Peter Schumacher , politician and member of the state parliament of the center
- Fritz Seitz (1905-1949); Catholic priest in the diocese of Speyer , long-time prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
- Franz-Josef Selig (* 1962), opera singer
- Anne Spurzem (* 1955), politician
- Karl Uller (1872–1959), physicist
- Heiko Wiesenthal (* 1975), sitting volleyball and fistball player
- Erika Ziegler-Stege (1909–1997), writer
- Josef Zilliken (1872–1942) Catholic priest of the Diocese of Trier , persecuted by the Nazi regime , killed in Dachau concentration camp