Editing Essen (section)

== Notable people ==
{{further ill|List of people from Essen|de|Liste von Persönlichkeiten der Stadt Essen}}

===Natives===
People born in Essen:

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*[[Gerd Albrecht]] (1935–2014), conductor
*[[Karl Albrecht]] (1920–2014), entrepreneur
*[[Theo Albrecht]] (1922–2010), entrepreneur; brother of Karl
*[[Peter Anders (tenor)|Peter Anders]] (1908–1954), operatic tenor
*[[Karl Baedeker]] (1801–1859), publisher
*[[Jürgen Bartsch]] (1946–1976), serial killer
*[[Ute Berg]] (born 1953), politician
*[[Naftali Bezem]] (1924–2018), artist
*[[Ali Bilgin]] (born 1981), footballer
*[[Franz Blücher]] (1896–1959), politician
*[[Hermann Blumenthal]] (1905–1942), sculptor
*[[Wilhelm Börger]] (1896–1962), Nazi politician 
*[[Karl Brandt (economist)|Karl Brandt]] (1899–1975), agricultural economist
*[[Sabine Braun]] (born 1965), track athlete
*[[Dennis Brinkmann]] (born 1978), footballer
*[[Ernst Busch (field marshal)|Ernest B. H. Busch]] (1885–1945), ''Generalfeldmarschall''
*[[Gunter d'Alquen]] (1910–1998), editor
*[[Marc Degens]] (born 1971), writer
*[[Marius Ebbers]] (born 1978), footballer
*[[Rüdiger Fahlenbrach]] (born 1974), economist
*[[Malek Fakhro]] (born 1997), footballer
*[[Friedrich Karl Florian]] (1894–1975), Nazi ''Gauleiter''
*[[James Ingo Freed]] (1930–2005), architect
*[[Matt Frei]] (born 1963), journalist
*{{ill|Herbert Girardet (publisher)|de|Herbert Girardet (Verleger)}} (1910–1972), publisher
*[[Herbert Girardet]] (born 1943), environmental activist
*[[Harald Grohs]] (born 1944), race car driver
*[[Brigitte Hamann]] (1940–2016), author
*[[Hildegard Hamm-Brücher]] (1921–2016), politician
*[[Walter Heiman]] (1901–2007), centenarian and WW1 survivor
*[[Alfred Herrhausen]] (1930–1989), banker
*[[André Hoffmann (footballer)|André Hoffmann]] (born 1993), footballer
*[[Axel Honneth]] (born 1949), philosopher
*[[Carl Humann]] (1839–1896), engineer
*[[Wilhelm Kalveram]] (1882–1951), university professor
*[[Christian Keller (swimmer)|Christian Keller]] (born 1972), swimmer
*[[Fritz G. A. Kraemer]] (1908–2003), military educator
*[[Diether Krebs]] (1947–2000), actor
*[[Helene Kröller-Müller]] (1869–1939), art collector
*[[Alfred Krupp]] (1812–1887), inventor
*[[Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach]] (1907–1967), Nazi industrialist
*[[Bertha Krupp]] (1886–1957), daughter of Friedrich Alfred
*[[Friedrich Alfred Krupp]] (1854–1902), steel manufacturer
*[[Friedrich Krupp|Friedrich C. Krupp]] (1787–1826), founder of Krupp family business
*[[Heinz Kubsch]] (1930–1993), football goalkeeper
*[[Hubert Lampo]] (1920–2006), writer
*[[Johanna Langefeld]] (1900–1974), Nazi guard
*[[Arthur Laumann]] (1894–1970), flying ace
*[[Issachar Berend Lehmann]] (1661–1730), banker
*[[Jens Lehmann]] (born 1969), footballer
*[[Helga Niessen Masthoff]] (born 1941), tennis player
*[[Hartmut Vogtmann]] (born 1942), organic agriculturist
*[[Armin Meiwes]] (born 1961), convicted murderer known as the Cannibal of Rothenburg
*[[Frank Mill]] (born 1958), footballer
*[[Harry S. Morgan]] (1945–2011), pornographic film director
*[[Alfred Müller-Armack]] (1901–1978), politician
*[[Henry Osterman]] (1862-????), architect
*[[Friedrich Panse]] (1899–1973), psychiatrist
*[[Mille Petrozza]] (born 1967), guitarist
*[[Helmut Rahn]] (1929–2003), footballer
*[[Uta Ranke-Heinemann]] (1927–2021), theologian
*[[Otto Rehhagel]] (born 1938), footballer
*[[Uwe Reinders]] (born 1955), footballer
*[[Günther Rennert]] (1911–1978), opera director
*[[Heinz Rühmann]] (1902–1994), actor
*[[Leroy Sané]] (born 1996), footballer
*[[Klaus Scharioth]] (born 1946), diplomat
*[[Magdalene Schauss-Flake]] (1921–2008), composer and organist
*[[Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling]] (1908–1981), tennis player
*[[John Steppling (actor)|John Steppling]] (1870–1932), actor
*[[David D. Stern]] (born 1956), artist
*[[Martin Stratmann]] (born 1954), electrochemist
*[[Marianne Strauss]] (1923–1996), Holocaust survivor
*[[Josef Terboven]] (1898–1945), Nazi ''Gauleiter''
*[[Bernhard Termath]] (1928–2004), footballer
*[[Johan van Galen]] (1604–1653), commodore
*[[Kyriakos Velopoulos]] (born 1965), politician
*[[Albert Vögler]] (1877–1945), politician
*[[Elisabeth Volkmann]] (1936–2006), actress
*[[Pia Walkenhorst]] (born 1993), volleyball player
*[[Daniel Wende]] (born 1984), skater
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=== Honorary citizens ===
The city of Essen has been awarding honorary citizenships since 1879 but has (coincidentally) discontinued this tradition after the foundation of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] in 1949. A notable exception was made in 2007, when Berthold Beitz, the president of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation received honorary citizenship for his long lasting commitment to the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://krupp-guertel.essen.de/Projekte/Rede_OB_fuer_Ehrenbuerger_Beitz_09_05_07.pdf |title=Speech by Mayor Wolfgang Reiniger (German) |access-date=6 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327085507/http://krupp-guertel.essen.de/Projekte/Rede_OB_fuer_Ehrenbuerger_Beitz_09_05_07.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2009 }}</ref>
The following list contains all honorary citizens of the city of Essen:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.essen.de/deutsch/rathaus/aemter/ordner_41/stadtarchiv/ehrenbuerger/ehrenbuerger.asp|title=Honorary Citizens of Essen|website=Essen.de|access-date=6 April 2011|archive-date=12 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512132105/http://www.essen.de/deutsch/rathaus/aemter/ordner_41/stadtarchiv/ehrenbuerger/ehrenbuerger.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*1879 [[Otto von Bismarck]]{{spaced ndash}}[[Chancellor of Germany]]
*1888 {{Interlanguage link multi|Friedrich Hammacher|de}}{{spaced ndash}}[[politician]], lawyer and economist
*1895 {{Interlanguage link multi|Johann Heinrich Peter Beising|de}}{{spaced ndash}}[[Roman catholic]] [[Theology|theologian]]
*1896 [[Friedrich Alfred Krupp]]{{spaced ndash}}[[industrialist]] ''(spouse of Margarethe Krupp, see below)''
*1901 Heinrich Carl Sölling{{spaced ndash}}[[tradesman]] and [[benefactor (law)|benefactor]]
*1906 {{Interlanguage link multi|Erich Zweigert|de}}{{spaced ndash}}[[Lord Mayor]] (1886–1906)
*1912 [[Margarethe Krupp]]{{spaced ndash}}benefactress ''(spouse of Friedrich Alfred Krupp, see above)''
*1917 [[Paul von Hindenburg]]{{spaced ndash}}[[Field Marshal (Germany)|Generalfeldmarschall]] and army leader, later [[President of Germany (1919–1945)|President of Germany]]
*1949 Viktor Niemeyer{{spaced ndash}}[[councilman]] ''([[posthumous recognition]])''
*2007 [[Berthold Beitz]]{{spaced ndash}}president of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation
Today, the highest award of the city is the ''Ring of Honour'', which Berthold Beitz, for example, had already received in 1983. Other bearers of the Ring of Honour include Essen's former Lord Mayor and later [[President of Germany]], [[Gustav Heinemann]], as well as [[Franz Hengsbach|Franz Cardinal Hengsbach]], the first [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Essen|Bishop of Essen]]. Berthold Beitz (1973) and his wife [[Else Beitz]] (2006) are recipients of the [[Righteous Among the Nations]] recognized by the [[Yad Vashem]] for having saved about 800 Jewish lives during [[World War II]].