List of Free University of Berlin people

• Herta Müller, novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature (2009) (Professor)[1][2]
• Gerhard Ertl, physicist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2007) (Professor)[3][4]
• Reinhard Selten, economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994) (Professor)[5][6]
• Ernst Ruska, physicist and Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1986) (Professor)[7][8]
• Ulrich Cubasch, climate scientist and co-author of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007(Professor)[9][10]

Günter M. Ziegler, Leibniz Prize-winning mathematician and president of the FUB

The DFG has awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to outstanding German scientists every year since 1985. As the most acclaimed award for research achievements in Germany, it comes with a research grant of 2.5 million € to be used within seven years.[11]

• Volker Erdmann, Biochemistry (1987)[12]
• Wolfram Saenger, Crystallography (1987)[13]
• Randolf Menzel, Neuroscience (1991), member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[14][15]
• Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Japanese Studies (1992)[16]
• Jürgen Kocka, History (1992)[17]
• Johann Mulzer, Organic chemistry (1994)[18]
• Peter Schaefer, Jewish Studies (1994)[19][20]
• Emo Welzl, Computer science (1995)[21]
• Onno Oncken, Geology (1998)[22]
• Regine Hengge-Aronis, Microbiology (1998)[23]
• Joachim Küpper, Romance studies (2001), member of the Leopoldina[24]
• Günter M. Ziegler, Mathematics (2001), member of the Leopoldina, current president of the Free University of Berlin[25][26]
• Hélène Esnault, Mathematics (2003)[27]
• Rupert Klein, Mathematics (2003)[28]
• Gerhard Huisken (2003)[29][30]
• Gabriele Brandstetter, Theater studies (2004), member of the Leopoldina[31]
• Gyburg Radke, Ancient Greek (2006), youngest ever person to receive the Leibniz prize[32]
• Beatrice Gründler Arabic Studies (2016)[33]
• Benjamin List, Organocatalysis (2016)[34]
  

  Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International

Gesine Schwan, political scientist and two-time Social Democratic Party of Germany candidate for German president

Klaus Wowereit, Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2001 to 2014

Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2014-2019)

Klaus Hänsch, President of the European Parliament (1994–1997)

• Andrea Fischer, Federal Ministry of Health (1998–2001)[69]
• Annette Groth, politician in the German Left Party[70]
• Devendra Fadnavis, 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra State in India.
• Eberhard Diepgen, Mayor of (West) Berlin (1984–1989, 1991–2001)[71]
• Fritz Teufel, political activist in the 1960s, founder of Kommune 1[72]
• Günter Rexrodt, Economics Minister of Germany (1993–1998)[73]
• Hans Eichel, Federal Ministry of Finance (1999–2005)[74]
• Hans-Christian Ströbele, vice-leader of the German Green Party in the Bundestag[75]
• Hans-Jürgen Papier, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (2002–2010)[76]
• Helga Zepp-LaRouche, German political activist, wife of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche[77]
• Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Justice Minister of Germany (1998–2002)[78]
• Ingeborg Gräßle, Member of the European Parliament[79]
• Jan-Marco Luczak, politician and lawyer[80]
• Jutta Limbach, President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1994–2002), President of Goethe-Instituts (2002–2008)[81]
• Klaus Hänsch, President of the European Parliament (1994–1997)[82]
• Klaus Uwe Benneter, German politician[83]
• Mario Laserna Pinzón, Colombian politician[84]
• Marion Caspers-Merk, politician[85]
• Otto Schily, Federal Ministry of the Interior (1998–2005)[86]
• Leon Schreiber, South African academic, author and politician[87]
• Vassilios Skouris, President of the Court of Justice of the European Communities (since 2003)[88]
• Walter Momper, Mayor of West Berlin (1989–1991)[89]

Ina Hartwig – writer, literature critic and Frankfurt city councillor responsible for culture and science

Jonathan Franzen, novelist, was an alumnus of FU Berlin

• F. W. Bernstein, poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic[90]
• Volkmar Braunbehrens, German musicologist[91]
• Reinhold Brinkmann, musicologist[92]
• Christopher Clark, historian[93]
• Lars Clausen, German sociologist[94]
• Georg von Dadelsen, German musicologist, Neue Bach-Ausgabe[95]
• Jonathan Franzen, novelist[96]
• Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, businesswoman and aristocrat[97]
• Edwin Gentzler, American Germanist and translation scholar[98]
• Ina Hartwig, journalist, author, Kulturdezernentin of Frankfurt[99]
• Roman Inderst, economist[100]
• Parag Khanna, Indian American author and analyst in the field of international relations[101]
• Walther Killy, German literary scholar, Der Killy[51]
• Paul Alfred Kleinert, German writer, editor and translator
• Mario Kopić, Croatian philosopher and author
• Elmar Kraushaar, journalist and author
• Shoucheng Zhang, theoretical physicist[102]
• Amity Shlaes, Senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations and syndicated columnist[103]
• Wolfgang Schomburg, first German judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda[104]
• Wolfgang Becker, German film director and writer[105]
• Markus Büchler, surgeon and physician[106]
• Götz Aly, journalist, sociologist and historian[107]
• Peter Loewenberg, historian, psychologist and professor at UCLA[108]
• Stefan Heidemann, orientalist[109]
• Jacques de Caso, American historian[110]
• Frank W. Stahnisch, historian[111]
• Gregor Thum, historian[112]
• Michael Stürmer, historian[113]
• Carsten Niemitz, anatomist and ethologist[114]
• José María Pérez Gay, information scientist[115]
• Julian Voss-Andreae, sculptor and physicist[116]
• Bertram Gawronski, social psychologist[117]
• Michael Roes, writer and filmmaker[118]
• Hartmut Zinser, scholar in the field of religious studies and ethnology[119]
• Gudrun Ensslin, terrorist[120]
• David Madden (Jeopardy! contestant), Jeopardy! contestant and art historian[121]
• Horst Mahler, political activist[122]
• Baby Varghese, Indian church historian and scholar