Famous People with Name Ilse

Ilse Huizinga            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ilse Huizinga: is a Dutch jazz singer. She performs throughout Europe

Ilse Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ilse Werner: was an actress and singer. She was born to a Dutch father and a German mother and was Dutch citizen by birth. Although she had her greatest successes in Germany (mainly during the time of the Third Reich), she did not assume German citizenship until 1955.Arriving in Frankfurt, Germany at the age of 10, Werner later made her name at the legendary UFA Studios near Berlin. She starred in the popular wartime films "Die schwedische Nachtigall" (The Swedish Nightingale) and "Wir machen Musik" (We're Making Music).

Ilse D. Guggenberger            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Ilse D. Guggenberger: is a Colombian chess master.She played six times for Colombia in Chess Olympiads (1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, and 1988).

Ilse Aichinger            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ilse Aichinger: an Austrian writer, who is noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.She spent her childhood in Linz and Vienna, where her family was subjected to Nazi persecution starting in 1933. Aichinger began to study medicine in 1945, working as a writer on the side. In her first novel, Das vierte Tor (The Fourth Gate), she writes of her own experience under Nazism. In the same year, Aichinger's essay, Aufruf zum Misstrauen (A Call for Mistrust) was criticized for the extent to which it calls for self-doubt (Selbstmisstrauen): "The clarity of our intentions, the depth of our thoughts, the goodness of our acts! We even have to mistrust our own truthfulness!"

Ilse Ilse Kaschube            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ilse Ilse Kaschube: is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s.