List of people from Erfurt

Born in Erfurt, Germany

14th century

• Alexander Suslin, rabbi

  15th century

• Erhard Etzlaub, astronomer
• :de:Johann Lange |de:Johannes Lang, theologian; the "Reformer of Erfurt"
• Henricus Grammateus, mathematician

  16th century

• Michael Altenburg, theologian, born in Alach
• Johannes Thesselius, composer

  17th century

• Johannes Bach, composer
• Hiob Ludolf, orientalist
• Johann Michael Vansleb, theologian
• Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, mother of Johann Sebastian Bach
• Johann Aegidius Bach, organist
• Johann Ambrosius Bach, musician
• Johann Christoph Bach, musician
• Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer, born in Bindersleben
• Johann Christoph Bach, composer
• Johann Bernhard Bach, composer
• Johann Gottfried Walther, music theorist
• Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer
• Elias David Häusser, architect
• Amalia Pachelbel, painter
• Jakob Adlung, organist, born in Bindersleben

  18th century

• Johann Rudolf Engau, jurist
• Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann, poet
• Johann Christian Kittel, composer
• Johann Hieronymus Schröter, astronomer
• Johann Wilhelm Hässler, composer
• Samuel Gottlieb Vogel, physician
• Rudolph Zacharias Becker, educator
• Johann Joachim Bellermann, theologist
• Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann, historian
• Johann Trommsdorff, chemist
• Johann Jakob Bernhardi, botanist
• Justus Hecker, physician

  19th century

• August Soller, architect and Schinkel student
• Christian Eduard Langethal, botanist
• Hugo Rothstein, officer
• August Gottfried Ritter, composer and organist
• Anton Dominik Fernkorn, sculptor
• Eduard Gerhardt, painter, draftsman, printmaker, lithographer and architect
• Ferdinand Bellermann, landscape painter
• Fritz Müller, biologist, born in Windischholzhausen
• Carl Reinthaler, composer, conductor and director of the cathedral choir in Bremen
• Oskar Schade, philologist
• Otto Ribbeck, classical scholar
• Julius Grosse, writer and theater critic
• Alfred Kirchhoff, geographer
• Carl von Thieme, co-founder of two large German insurance companies Munich reinsurance company and Allianz AG
• Bernhard Ziehn, music theorist
• Paul von Kleist, Prussian lieutenant general
• Johann Heinrich Hübschmann, philologist
• Günther von Kirchbach, general
• Oskar von Hutier, General in World War I
• Max Weber, sociologist, lawyer, economist and social economist
• Johannes Franz Hartmann, astronomer
• Hermann Kiese, rosarian, born in Vieselbach
• Alfred Weber, economist, sociologist and cultural philosopher
• Paul Lipke, chess master
• Max E. Binner, politician
• Hubert Weise, general
• Erich Zeigner politician, prime minister of Saxony 21 March to 29 October 1923
• Willi Münzenberg, communist, publisher and film producer
• Erika Glässner, actress
• Erich Köhler, politician, president of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1950
• Walter Zander, lawyer

  20th century

1900s

• Werner Danckert, musicologist
• Reinhard Gehlen, German general, first president of Federal Intelligence Service
• Hans Hess, museologist
• Margaretha Reichardt, textile designer and Bauhaus alumni
• Hans Günther, policeman, Sturmbannführer and head of the Central office for Jewish emigration in Prague

  1910s

• Max Lackmann, ecumenist
• Heinrich Schonder, U-boat commander
• Hans Fleischhacker, anthropologist, born in Töttleben
• Gerhard Schöpfel, flying ace
• Rolf Günther, major in SS

  1920s

• Annemarie Schimmel, orientalist
• Wolf Schneider, journalist, nonfiction author and language critic
• Peer Schmidt, actor
• Gert Schramm, survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp
• Winfried Herz, footballer
• Reinhard Lettau, writer

  1930s

• Johannes Wallmann, professor of church history at the University of Bochum, pietism researcher
• Georg Stoltze, cyclist
• Jutta Langenau, swimmer
• Lothar Stäber, cyclist
• Lothar Ahrendt, politician, from 1989 to 1990 Minister of the Interior of the GDR
• Joachim Wendler, aquanaut

  1940s

• Alexander Lang, director and actor
• Gerd Nauhaus, musicologist
• Wolfgang Scheidel, luger
• Boris Gulko, Grandmaster in chess
• Christine Westermann, television host and author
• Christel Augenstein, politician, 2001-2009 mayor of Pforzheim
• Ralf Schulenberg, footballer

  1950s

• Klaus Wunder, footballer
• Jochen Babock, bobsledder
• Ulrich Holbein, writer
• Ute Lubosch, actress
• Joachim Werneburg, writer
• Evelyn Stolze, swimmer

  1960s

• Sabine Busch, athlete
• Carsten Sänger, football player
• Stefan Böger, football player and coach
• Axel Kühn, bobsledder
• Maik Landsmann, cyclist and Olympic champion
• Sybille Gruner, handball player
• Thomas Luther, Grandmaster in chess
• Eyck Zimmer, award-winning chef

  1970s

• Thomas Rudolph, luger
• Christoph Genz, tenor
• Andreas Müller, paralympic athlete
• Marco Weißhaupt, footballer
• Steffen Wöller, luger
• Katrin Apel, biathlete
• Andreas Bausewein, politician and mayor of Erfurt
• Alexander Beyer, film actor
• André Korff, cyclist
• Erik Niedling, artist
• Sabine Völker, speed skater
• Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, speed skater and Olympic champion
• Franziska Schenk, speed skater
• Marco Schreyl, television host
• Matthias Höpfner, bobsledder
• Carsten Schneider, politician, Member of Bundestag since 1998
• Daniel Becke, cyclist
• Anja Schneiderheinze-Stöckel, bobsledder
• Stephan Schreck, cyclist
• René Wolff, cyclist
• Yvonne Catterfeld, singer
• Silvio Smalun, figure skater

  1980s

• Clueso , singer
• Clemens Fritz, footballer
• Stefan Lindemann, figure skater
• Andreas Pohle, long jumper and triple jumper
• Janin Reinhardt, television presenter and actress
• Judith Hesse, speed skater
• Christian Müller, cyclist
• Simon Schwartz, illustrator and comic novel writer
• Robert Lehmann, speed skater
• Elisabeth Pähtz, Grandmaster in chess
• Martin Ullmann, footballer
• Kristin Wieczorek, figure skater
• Patrick Gretsch, cyclist
• Stephanie Beckert, speed skater
• Thomas Ströhl, footballer
• Christian Beck, football player

  1990s

• Patrick Beckert, speed skater
• Denis Wieczorek, figure skater
• Florian Wünsche, actor
• Kevin Möhwald, footballer
• Silvano Varnhagen, footballer

  Others

• Boogie Pimps, electronic music duo
• Bernd das Brot, puppet character from KiKa television and an unofficial mascot of Erfurt

  Notable residents of Erfurt

• Eoban, martyr, buried in Erfurt
• Eleazar of Worms, taldmudist, worked as hazzan in Erfurt
• :de:Heinrich von Friemar |de:Heinrich von Friemar , an Augustinian monk, philosopher, theologian and aesthetic writer.
• Meister Eckhart, theologian, lived in Erfurt
• Heinrich von Friemar Augustinian monk and theologian
• Johannes de Indagine, Carthusian monk and theologian
• Jacob Weil, rabbinate in Erfurt
• Martin Luther, lived as student and later as a monk in Erfurt
• Adam Ries, mathematician, worked in Erfurt between 1518 and 1522/23
• Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and Rector of University of Erfurt.
• Johannes Loersfeld, printer, worked in Erfurt in the 1520s
• Basil Faber, schoolmaster, worked in Erfurt between 1571 and 1576
• Christoph Bach, worked in Erfurt between 1642 and 1652
• Heinrich Bach, organist, worked in Erfurt
• Johann Pachelbel, composer and organist, worked in Erfurt between 1678 and 1690
• Andreas Armsdorff, composer, worked in Erfurt
• Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, governor of Erfurt
• Paulus Stephanus Cassel, writer, lived in Erfurt
• Emil Büchner, conductor
• Moritz Callmann Wahl, writer, lived in Erfurt
• Ernst Dircksen, architect, lived in Erfurt since 1890
• Richard Wetz, composer, lived in Erfurt since 1906
• Joel Brand, zionist, grew up in Erfurt
• Walter Werneburg, artist, lived in Erfurt
• Hans-Joachim Göring, footballer, lived in Erfurt
• Joachim Meisner, cardinal
• Paul Friedrichs, motocross racer, lived in Erfurt
• Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, speed skater
• Marcus Urban, footballer with FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt