26 Notable alumni of
Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
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The Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf is 1319th in the world, 451st in Europe, and 52nd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Heike Makatsch
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- film actorscreenwriternarratorsingertelevision presenter
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Heike Makatsch is a German actress. She is known for her roles as Lisa Addison in Resident Evil (2002), Mia in Love Actually (2003), and as Liesel's mother in The Book Thief (2013).
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Karl Lauterbach
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- Graduated with doctorate in medicine
- Occupations
- university teacherhealth economistinternational forum participantnon-fiction writerepidemiologist
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Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach is a German scientist, physician, and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who has served as Federal Minister of Health since 8 December 2021. He is professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne (on leave since 2005). Since the 2005 German federal election, he has been a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament).
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Mirja Boes
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- singerstage actor
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Mirja Boes, also known under her stage name Möhre (German for "carrot"), is a German comedian, actress, and singer. Boes produces comedic party music, and also has released tracks of spoken comedy. She has released a number of singles and has also recorded with other German musicians, as part of the 'Mallorca All-Stars'. She won the 2007 German Comedy Award as a member of the ensemble of 'Frei Schnauze' (Best Comedy Show), and the 2008 German Comedy Award (Best Comedian).
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Harald zur Hausen
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- physicianuniversity teacheroncologistvirologist
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Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS was a German virologist. He carried out research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008. He was chairman of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg.
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Annette Schavan
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- theologianpolitician
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Annette Schavan is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She was the Federal Minister of Education and Research in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2013, when she resigned following the revocation of her doctorate due to plagiarism. From 2014 until 2018 she served as the German Ambassador to the Holy See. From April 2018, she also briefly served as first German Ambassador to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
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Mona Neubaur
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- Studied in 1997-2003
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mona Neubaur is a German politician from Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as Deputy Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia and also as State Minister for Economics, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy in the second cabinet of Minister-President Hendrik Wüst since 29 June 2022. She was previously the leader of her party in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Nyke Slawik
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- In 2012 studied americanistics, media studies, English studies, and communication science
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- LGBTQI+ rights activistpolitician
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Nyke Slawik is a German politician and member of the Bundestag representing the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Alliance 90/The Greens list. Upon her election in the 2021 German federal election, Slawik and fellow politician Tessa Ganserer together became the first openly transgender people elected to the German parliament.
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Irakli Kobakhidze
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- politicianuniversity teacher
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Irakli Kobakhidze is a Georgian constitutional scholar and politician who has served as the 16th Prime Minister of Georgia since 2024.
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Mahmut Özdemir
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- politicianjurist
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Mahmut Özdemir is a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013, representing the Duisburg II district.
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Niema Movassat
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- 2004-2009 graduated with Diplom
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- jurist
- Biography
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Niema Movassat is a German politician from The Left. He served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 to 2021.
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Archil Talakvadze
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- politician
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Archil Talakvadze is a Georgian politician, who served as a Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia during 9th and 10th convocations since 25 June 2019. He was a leader of the Georgian Dream parliamentary majority from 2016 to 2019.
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Thomas Jarzombek
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- Studied business administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Jarzombek is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2009.
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Kerstin Griese
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kerstin Griese is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2000.
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Peter Beyer
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- In 1992 studied jurisprudence
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Peter Beyer is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009.
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Kurt Otto Friedrichs
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- Studied in 1920
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- university teachermathematician
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Kurt Otto Friedrichs was a German-American mathematician. He was the co-founder of the Courant Institute at New York University, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
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Eva Kreienkamp
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- 1982-1984 graduated with Diplom in mathematics
- Occupations
- LGBTQI+ rights activistmanagerbusinessperson
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Eva Kreienkamp is a German manager and businesswoman. Between 2015 and 2020, Kreienkamp held the position of Co-Managing Director of the Mainzer Verkehrsgesellschaft. Since 2020 Kreienkamp has been the chairperson of the board of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe; she succeeded Sigrid Nikutta on 1 October 2020.
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Shelley Thompson
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- association football player
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Shelley Ann Thompson is a German football striker. Between 2001 and 2013, she played for several Bundesliga teams, Atlanta Beat (WPS) and Regis University Rangers (Denver, Colorado), and has scored 1 goal in 2 caps for the German national team. She is of South African and Zimbabwean descent.
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Sabine Klewe
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- writertranslator
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Sabine Klewe pseudonym: Sabine Martin is a German writer, who published mainly crime novels.
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Gerhard Hirschfeld
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- university teacherhistorian of Modern Agehistoriancontemporary historiansocial historian
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Gerhard Hirschfeld is a German historian and author. From 1989 to 2011, he was director of the Stuttgart-based Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte / Library of Contemporary History, and has been a professor at the Institute of History of the University of Stuttgart since 1997. In 2016 he also became a visiting professor at the Institute for International Studies, University of Wuhan/China.
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Sybille Krämer
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
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Sybille Krämer is a German philosopher. She held the position of professor at Freie University Berlin from 1989 until 2018. Since March 2019, Krämer serves as a senior professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
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Pei Xu
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- writerpoet
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Xu Pei is a Chinese-born German poet, writer, and human rights activist. Born in Sichuan, she left China in 1988 and studied in Germany. Xu became a German citizen in 2004, and lives in Cologne, Germany.
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Günter Theißen
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- university teachergeneticist
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Günter Theißen is a German geneticist. He holds the chair of genetics at the University of Jena.
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Doris Abele
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- Died in 2021
- Occupations
- marine biologistresearcher
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Doris Abele was an Antarctic marine biologist based at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany. She led the research group working on stress physiology and aging in marine invertebrates and also the Ecology Polar regions And Coasts in the changing Earth System (PACES) programme.
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Rüdiger Emshoff
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- dentist
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Rüdiger Emshoff is a German oral and maxillofacial surgeon and associate professor at the Medical University of Innsbruck, where he is head of the Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorder Unit. Emshoff is known for his work in the field of chronic orofacial pain management with a focus on the development of non-invasive and minimally-invasive methods in the diagnosis and treatment of temporomandibular joint dysfunction.
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Paul Enck
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
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- psychologist
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Paul Enck is Professor of Medical Psychology and was Head of Research at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany until 2014; since then, he holds a part-time research and consultant position at the department. His research interests were and still are psychophysiology and neurogastroenterology (i.e. stress research, pain research, biofeedback applications, cortical imaging, eating disorders, functional gastrointestinal disorders and placebo research). Since his semi-retirement in 2014, he added popular science writing in medicine and history to his activities.
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Sabine Kastner
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- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
- 1991-1993 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
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Sabine Kastner is a German-born American cognitive neuroscientist. She is professor of psychology at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. She also holds a visiting scientist appointment at the University of California at Berkeley.
