List of East Frisian people

This is a list of East Frisian people who are important to the region of East Frisia and its history in that they have played a key role in the region or are otherwise renowned and closely linked to East Frisia.

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Art and culture

Ludolf Bakhuizen, artist
Eggerik Beninga, Frisian chronicler
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
Rudolf Eucken, German Nobel prize winner for literature, 1908
Martin Faber, architect, artist and cartographer
Recha Freier, Swiss-born playwright, holder of the Israeli State Prize
Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
the family of Ub Iwerks
Hermann Lübbe, philosopher
Henri Nannen, publisher
Uwe Rosenberg, game inventor

Film, TV and radio

Heiko Engelkes, journalist, ARD correspondent in Paris, author
Okka Gundel, presenter on Sportschau and tagesschau24
Eva Herman, presenter, newscaster and playwright
Wolfgang Petersen, Hollywood director of inter alia Das Boot and Troy
Helma Sanders-Brahms, director

History

Edzard the Great, East Frisian count
Klaus Störtebeker, pirate during the time of the Hanseatic League
Balthasar von Esens, pirate
Max Windmüller, German-Jewish resistance fighter against Nazism
Dodo zu Innhausen und Knyphausen, military commander during the Thirty Years' War

Musicians and comedians

Carl Carlton (German musician), rock musician
Karl Dall, comedian, actor, entertainer
H.P. Baxxter, real name: Hans-Peter Geerdes, front man of the techno band Scooter
Al Shean, US American-German comedian
Theodore Thomas, born Theodor Thomas, musician, composer, founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Otto Waalkes, comedian, actor

Politics

Gesine Agena, politician and speaker for the Grüne Jugend
Gitta Connemann, MdB
Garrelt Duin, former leader of the SPD in Lower Saxony, MdB

Sport

Christian Alder, footballer
Dieter Eilts, footballer
Karsten Fischer, footballer
Bernd Flessner, windsurfer (15-time German champion)
Heidi Hartmann, world boxing champion
Marco Kutscher, showjumper (European and Olympic bronze medallist)
Silvia Rieger, track and field athlete (hurdles)
Ferydoon Zandi, footballer

Theology

Menso Alting
David Fabricius, theologian, important amateur astronomer and cartographer
Eduard Norden, philologist and religious historian

Science

Eggerik Beninga, chronicler
Hermann Conring, legal scholar
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, scientist and oceanographer, founder of the North German Hydrographic Office in Hamburg
Rudolf von Jhering, German lawyer
Hermann Lübbe, philosopher
Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, sports doctor and doctor to the Germany National Football Team and FC Bayern Munich
Johann Christian Reil, doctor and professor

Other people

Jan van Koningsveld, world champion in mental arithmetic
Minnie Schönberg, mother of the Marx Brothers, who came from Dornum
Tamme Hanken, vet and TV presenter

Literature

Martin Tielke (ed.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland. Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich, 1993 (in Fula), 5 volumes, Vol. 4, 2007.