List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Klaus Bargsten was the captain and sole survivor of the sunken U-521. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Wolfgang Börnsen is a German politician and member of the CDU, which he joined in 1967. He was born in Flensburg and was a member of the Bundestag from 1987 to 2013.

Dirk Skreber, is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Rudolf Walter Ladenburg was a German atomic physicist. He emigrated from Germany as early as 1932 and became a Brackett Research Professor at Princeton University. When the wave of German emigration began in 1933, he was the principal coordinator for job placement of exiled physicists in the United States. Albert Einstein gave the eulogy at Rudolf's funeral. He and his wife Elsa had three children, "Modit", Kurt, and Eva. Kurt had two children, Toni and Nils Ladenburg.