List of personalities of the city north

The list of personalities of the city of Norden contains, in alphabetical order, people who are important for the north and its city ​​history , who have had a significant impact here or whose person is closely associated with the city.

• Gesine Agena (* 1987), politician and spokeswoman for the Green Youth
• Ralf Beckmann (* 1946), former national swimming coach
• Onno Behrends (1862–1920) was an East Frisian tea manufacturer
• Jan von Brevern (* 1975), art historian and author
• Hans-Hermann Briese (* 1940), doctor and Low German author
• Jörg Buchna (* 1945), pastor and writer
• Enno Burmeister (1929–2017), architect, monument conservator and university lecturer as well as municipal homeworker in Munich
• Gerhard Canzler (1929–2011), German homeland researcher in East Friesland
• Peter Friedrich Conerus (1767–1861) was mayor of the city of Norden
• Hermann Conring (1606–1681), German doctor and politician
• Johann Cramer (1905–1987), German politician ( SPD ), Member of the Bundestag
• Reinhard Diedrich Cremer (1821–1884), businessman and politician
• Ufke Cremer (1887–1958), former teacher in the north, author of the first standard work on the history of the city of North (1955)
• Jan Davidoff (* 1976), painter
• Johannes Deknatel (1698–1759), well-known Mennonite theologian of the 18th century
• Heinrich Detmers (1919–1999), adjutant to the camp commandant in the Dachau and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps
• Johann Diepenbrock (1854–1901), organ builder in East Friesland
• Hans Dittmer (1893–1959), theologian and writer
• Jan ten Doornkaat Koolman (1773–1851), entrepreneur and founder of the Doornkaat company
• Jan ten Doornkaat Koolman (1815–1889), son of Jan ten Doornkaat Koolman, entrepreneur, pomologist and member of the German Reichstag
• Arend Dreesen (1883–1928) Low German poet
• Willrath Dreesen (1878–1950) was a German writer and politician
• Herbert Dunkel (1906–1966) was an artist and art educator in East Friesland
• Edzard I. (1462–1528), also called "Edzard the Great, Count of East Friesland "
• Edzard Ferdinand (1636–1668), Count of the North
• Ubbo Emmius (1547–1625), theologian, historian and founder of the University of Groningen
• Gustav Engelkes (1905–1973), writer
• Heiko Engelkes (1933–2008), journalist, Paris correspondent for ARD
• Jan Fastenau (1880–1945), art historian
• Jan Fegter (* 1969), handball player
• Popke Fegter (1874–1946), owner of the Norder Eisenhütte and director of the drainage association
• Karsten Fischer (* 1984), soccer player at Goslarer SC 08
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Fleischer (1890–1952), German naval officer and admiral
• Hans Forster (* 1956), German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2002 and 2005
• Wilhelm von Freeden (1822–1894), German mathematician, natural scientist and oceanographer and founder of the North German Seewarte
• Recha Freier (1892–1984), writer, winner of the Israel State Prize
• Ernst Frenzel (1904–1978), NSDAP politician and SA leader
• Rudolf Garrels (1675–1750), German organ builder who mainly worked in the Netherlands
• Wilhelm Gnapheus (1493–1568), humanist, Reformed Protestant scholar, mayor of the north
• Lina Gödeken (1926–2008), researched Jewish history
• Bettina Göschl (* 1967), children's songwriter and children's book author
• Walter Großmann , Geodät (1897–1980), Director of the Geodetic Institute of the Technical University in Hanover
• Georg Carl Grundmann (1828–1896), church musician and composer, studied in Leipzig with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann , after working in Oldenburg i. O. and Leer he worked in Norden from 1860 to 1896 , among other things as an organist at the Ludgerikirche
• Wilhelm Grundmann (1795–1860), church musician and composer, publisher of the "Preludes to the Oldenburg Choral Book", initially worked in Varel / Friesland and from 1836 to 1860 in Norden , among other things as an organist at the Ludgerikirche
• Johann Haddinga (* 1934), journalist and local researcher, author of many articles and books on North and East Frisian history
• Hans-Dieter Haase (* 1955), German politician (SPD) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
• Natalie Hof Ramos (* 1986), German presenter and poker player
• Andreas Hoffmann (* 1971), cultural manager and classical archaeologist
• Bernward Hoffmann (1945–2015), librarian and university professor
• Gustav Hölscher (1877–1955), Evangelical Lutheran theologian
• Uvo Hölscher (1878–1963), architect and Egyptologist
• Wilhelm Hölscher (1845–1911), Protestant theologian, most recently pastor of the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig
• Frerich Hokema (1897–1984) writer and actor
• Johann von Honart (1636–1721), engineer, cartographer and surveyor
• Taco Hajo van den Honert (1666–1740), Reformed theologian
• Dethard Horst (1548–1618), German legal scholar
• Mathilde Imhoff local history specialist, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
• Otto Ites (1918–1982), Rear Admiral of the German Navy, holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the Federal Order of Merit
• Jann-Peter Janssen (* 1945), politician, member of the German Bundestag
• Almuth Kook (* 1969), television presenter and book author
• Marco Kutscher (* 1975), show jumper
• Wilhelm Landmann (1869–1945), German chemist and General Director of WASAG
• Johannes Ligarius (1529–1596), Protestant theologian and reformer
• Theodor Lorenz (1929–2005), graphic artist and heraldist, created the coat of arms of the Mitte district in Berlin , among other things
• Heinz Lüllmann (1924–2014), pharmacologist and author
• Herbert Müller (* 1953), painter
• Meino Naumann (1938–2015), freelance writer who grew up in the north
• Georg Peters (1908–1992), German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1972
• Hildegard Peters (1923–2017), painter and teacher
• Michael Podulke (1922–1988), American painter in East Frisia
• Ralf-Peter Post (* 1967), German painter, documentary filmmaker, figure and mask maker
• Joachim Rachel (1618–1669), German satirist and rector at the Ulrichsgymnasium
• Meta Rogall (1935–1994), original , innkeeper and pioneer of youth culture
• Georg Scheller (1895–1955), professor of economics
• Wieland Schinnenburg (* 1958), politician (FDP)
• Johann Schröder (1925–2007), German mathematician
• Heiko Schwartz (1911–1973), water polo player
• Barbara Schlag (* 1951), mayor of the north
• Carl Stegmann (1881–1967), businessman and shipowner
• Hinrich Swieter (1939–2002), politician (SPD), Finance Minister of Lower Saxony
• Gerardus Synellius (1470–1552), theologian and last abbot of the Marienthal monastery
• Ocko II. Tom Brok (1407–1435), was the chief of Brokmer and Auricherland
• Hans Trimborn (1891–1979), German painter and musician from East Friesland
• Christof Wehking (1924–2004), civil servant and Low German author
• Hansfritz Werner (1894–1959), draftsman and sculptor
• Michael Johann Friedrich Wiedeburg (1720–1800), organist, music teacher and theologian
• Klaus-Peter Wolf (* 1954), freelance writer and screenwriter

See also

• List of mayors of the north city