List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Bärbel Höhn is a German politician for Alliance '90/The Greens. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 national elections, after serving as State Minister of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2005.

Matthias Alexander Rath is a German dressage rider. Representing Germany, he competed at the 2010 World Equestrian Games and at three European Dressage Championships.

Hark Olufs was a North Frisian sailor. He was captured by Algerian pirates and sold into slavery. By successfully working as a slave servant to the Bey of Constantine, he eventually obtained his freedom from captivity.

Carl Lange was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1954 and 1985. He was born in Flensburg, Germany and died in Ostfildern, Germany.

Jürgen Hinzpeter was a German journalist best known for his coverage of South Korean topics.

Horst Mittelstaedt was a German biologist and cybernetician. Together with Erich von Holst he demonstrated the "Reafference Principle" in 1950 concerning how an organism is able to separate reafferent (self-generated) sensory stimuli from exafferent sensory stimuli. This concept largely dealt with interactive processes between the central nervous system and its periphery.

Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen, better known by her stage name Elvira Madigan, was a circus performer who performed as a slack rope dancer, artistic rider, juggler and dancer. She is best known today for her romantic relationship with the Swedish nobleman and cavalry officer Sixten Sparre. Their joint death caused great sensation and the event was described in song by, among others, the author Johan Lindström Saxon in a song beginning "Sad things happen", which gained great popularity.

Matthias Holst is a German footballer who currently plays for Rödemisser SV.

Bernd Thiele was a German footballer. He made 178 appearances in the Bundesliga and played 91 matches in the 2. Bundesliga for Schalke 04 and Hannover 96.

Christian Heinrich Heineken or Heinecken, also known as "the infant scholar of Lübeck", was a German child prodigy who lived only to the age of four.