List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Rouwen Hennings is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for 2. Bundesliga club Fortuna Düsseldorf.

Schorsch Kamerun, whose real name is Thomas Sehl, is a German musician, singer, author, theatre director, and club proprietor. His stage name is a parody of the name of the singer of American punk band Dead Kennedys, called Jello Biafra.

Günther Fielmann is the founder, majority shareholder and chief executive officer of Fielmann AG, a German optics company focusing on retail eyewear.

Florian Kahllund, also known as Florian Unruh, is a German athlete who competes in recurve archery.

Adolf Frederick, or Adolph Frederick was King of Sweden from 1751 until his death. He was the son of Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, and Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach. He was an uncle of Catherine the Great

Jakob Blasel is a German climate activist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens.

Wilfried Lemke currently serves as United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace. He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 18 March 2008.

Klaus Florian Vogt is a German operatic tenor known for singing roles written by Richard Wagner.

Gerda Schmidt-Panknin was a German painter. The artist lived and worked in Kappeln. She studied at the Bremen art academy in the 1940s.

Oswalt Kolle was a German sex educator, who became famous during the late 1960s and early 1970s for his numerous pioneering books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into all major languages, while his films found an audience of 140 million worldwide. In his 1997 book Open to Both Sides he came out as bisexual. He was awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 2000.