List of Famous people named Erwin

Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer was an Austrian novelist, poet and playwright. Later based in Germany, he belonged to a group of writers that included the likes of Hans Grimm, Rudolf G. Binding, Emil Strauß, Agnes Miegel and Hanns Johst, all of whom found favour under the Nazis. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

Erwin Kramer was an East German politician who served as both Minister of Transportation and General Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough was a scholar in the history of religion. He is specifically noted for his study of the influence of Greek culture on Judaism, what some call Hellenistic Judaism.

Erwin Hymer was a German businessman, and the founder of the motorhome manufacturer Hymer. In 2000 he received Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Erwin Louis Hahn was an American physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). In 1950 he discovered the spin echo.

Erwin Wilhelm Müller was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He and his student, Kanwar Bahadur, were the first people to experimentally observe atoms.

Erwin Rüddel is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2009.

Erwin Josef Ender is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He has been an archbishop and had the rank of nuncio since 1990.