List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Valdemar IV Eriksøn was Duke of Schleswig from 1283 until his death in 1312. He was the eldest son of Duke Eric I of Schleswig and Margaret of Rugia.

Hermann Linde was a German painter in the Symbolist style. He specialized in "Oriental" themes.

Hans Howaldt was a successful and highly decorated German U-boat commander in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I and also active in World War II. By the end of World War I he was promoted Kapitänleutnant.

Anna Elisabeth of Saxe-Lauenburg, was a duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg by birth and by marriage landgravine of Hesse-Homburg.

The Mann family is a German dynasty of novelists and an old Hanseatic family of patricians from Lübeck. It is known for being the family of the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Thomas Mann.

Judith Malina was a German-born American theater and film actress, writer and director. With her husband, Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 60s. The Living Theatre and its founders were the subject of the 1983 documentary Signals Through The Flames.

Margrethe Pape (1620–1684) was a Danish baroness. She was the mistress of King Frederick III of Denmark and the mother of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve.