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.

Other East Frisian lists

 * List of counts of East Frisia
 * List of countesses of East Frisia

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, 5 volumes, Vol. 4, 2007.