# 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 (in Fula), 5 volumes, Vol. 4, 2007.