List of Famous people named Erich

Erich Mächler is a former professional Swiss cyclist. In the 1987 Tour de France, he wore the yellow jersey for 6 days. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1984.

Erich Rudolf Bagge was a German scientist. Bagge, a student of Werner Heisenberg for his doctorate and Habilitation, was engaged in German Atomic Energy research and the German nuclear energy project during the Second World War. He worked as an Assistant at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik in Berlin. Bagge, who became associated professor at the University of Hamburg in 1948, was in particular involved in the usage of nuclear power for trading vessels, and he was one of the founders of the Society for the Usage of Nuclear Energy in Ship-Building and Seafare. The first German nuclear vessel, the "NS Otto Hahn", was launched in 1962. A research reactor was installed in Geesthacht near Hamburg at about the same time which has over the years formed into a center for materials research with neutrons.

Erich Ollenhauer was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1952 until 1963.

Erich Schmidt was a German historian of literature.

Erich Pommer was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European Film Industries in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions:

• The Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions
• The Hückel method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations on π electron systems.

Erich Neumann, was a psychologist, philosopher, writer, and student of Carl Jung.

Erich Auerbach was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times and frequently cited as a classic in the study of realism in literature.