List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Johann Friedrich Overbeck was a German painter and member of the Nazarene movement. He also made four etchings.

Bernhard Theodor Henry Minetti was a German actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1931 and 1996 but is mostly known for his distinguished stage career.

Henning Schwarz was a German politician of the German party CDU.

Heinrich Eduard Linde-Walther, born Walther Heinrich Eduard Linde was a German painter and illustrator.

Margarete Gütschow (1871–1951) was a German classical archaeologist. She was one of the first women to work professionally as an architect, collaborating with the German Archaeological Institute in Rome from 1910. In 1928, she began studying classical architecture at the University of Berlin but did not complete her doctorate. Instead, in 1925 she returned to Rome, assisting Gerhart Rodenwaldt (1886–1945) in investigating funerary sculpture, a topic which became the focus of her subsequent work.

Emanuel von Geibel, German poet and playwright.