List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Dora Heldt is a German writer. Several of her novels have reached the top of German bestselling lists, including her 2009 novel Tante Inge haut ab, which got to second place.

Jörg Asmussen is a German economist. He previously served as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, as a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) and as Deputy Finance Minister of Germany.

Egon Müller is a former international motorcycle speedway rider and was winner of the Speedway World Championship in 1983, winning the title in his homeland with a maximum score of 15 points.

Hans Blumenberg was a German philosopher and intellectual historian.

Maria Jepsen is the former bishop of Hamburg in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. On 4 April 1992 the synod of the Hamburg Ambit elected her bishop, the first Lutheran woman to be a bishop worldwide, and since then she has been re-elected for a second ten-year period.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Busch was a German singer and actor.

Hugo Eckener was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time. An anti-Nazi who was invited to campaign as a moderate in the German presidential elections, he was blacklisted by that regime and eventually sidelined.

Waldemar Bonsels was a German writer.

Thomas Westphal is an economist, politician (SPD) and managing director of City of Dortmund Economic Development Agency. Previously, he was managing director of business development metropoleruhr, whose advisory board he still belongs to today. From 1993 to 1995 he was Federal Chairman of the Jusos. From 1 November 2020, Westphal will be the lord mayor of Dortmund.

Thomas Knorr is a German handball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.