List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Ingo von Bredow (12 December 1939 – 4 November 2015) was a German sailor. He won the Olympic Bronze Medal Flying Dutchman in 1960 Rome along with Rolf Mulka.

Emmy Hennings was a performer and poet. She was also the wife of celebrated Dadaist Hugo Ball.

Christian Andreas Victor Hensen was a German zoologist (planktology). He coined the term plankton and laid the foundation for biological oceanography.

Susann Beucke is a German sailor who competes in the 49er FX category. Along with Tina Lutz, she won a gold medal at the 2017 and 2020 49er & 49er FX European Championships. In their third attempt Beucke and Lutz qualified to represent Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,where they won a Silver medal. It’s been the best result for German sailing since 21 years.

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp was regent of Anhalt-Zerbst in during the minority of her son from 1667 until 1674.

Christian V was king of Denmark and Norway from 1670 until his death in 1699.

Margarete Böhme was, arguably, one of the most widely read German writers of the early 20th century. Böhme authored 40 novels – as well as short stories, autobiographical sketches, and articles. The Diary of a Lost Girl, first published in 1905 as Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, is her best known and bestselling book. By the end of the 1920s, it had sold more than a million copies, ranking it among the bestselling books of its time. One contemporary scholar has called it “Perhaps the most notorious and certainly the commercially most successful autobiographical narrative of the early twentieth century.”

Johann David Wadephul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the German Parliament since 2009.

Johann Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp was a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.

Matthias Claudius was a German poet and journalist, otherwise known by the pen name of “Asmus”.