Esens, Lower Saxony

Esens is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Esens.

Sons and daughters of the city

• Eilert Dieken (1898-1960), German Nazi policeman and gendarme who murdered the Ulma family in Markowa (Poland) in 1944
• David Fabricius (1564-1617), theologian, major amateur astronomer and cartographer
• Johann Hülsemann (1602-1661), Lutheran theologian
• Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714), composer
• Christian Everhard, Prince of East Frisia (1665-1708), Prince of East Friesland from the House of Cirksena
• Enno Rudolph Brenneysen, (1669-1734), jurist and chancellor of East Friesland
• Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725-1776), theologian, zoologist and professor in Erlangen
• Theodore Thomas (conductor) (1835-1905), composer, founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Gerhard Tappen (1866-1953), General of the Artillery
• Timo Schultz (born 1977), German footballer