List of Famous people born in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Ulrich Freese
Ulrich Freese is a German politician. Born in Hünxe, North Rhine-Westphalia, he represents the SPD. Ulrich Freese has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg since 2013.
Ulrich Erben
Ulrich Erben is a German painter. From 1980 to 2005, he was a Professor of Painting at the Kunstakademie Münster. He is known as a master of the color field style of abstract painting, closely related to abstract expressionism, in which he creates tension between a defined surface structure, his own method of applying paint to a canvas, and the relationship of various shades of white or color to each other in their placement as part of a composition on the flat plane of a canvas. In 1986 and 2008, he was awarded the Konrad-von-Soest Prize for Visual Arts by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe.