List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Hendrik Pekeler is a German handball player for THW Kiel and the German national team.

Laura Freigang is a German footballer who plays as a forward for Eintracht Frankfurt and the Germany national team.

Lea van Acken is a German actress.

Sabine Kunst is a German engineer, university teacher and politician who has been serving as president of Humboldt University since 2016. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Friederike Elly Luise Otto is a German climatologist who as of January 2021 was Associate Director of the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on how extreme weather conditions can result from external climate drivers. A recognized expert in the field of attribution research, she examines the extent to which man-made developments are likely to be responsible for events such as the extreme summer of 2019, and their repercussions on global warming. As a result of these interests, she has become a member of the international project World Weather Attribution.

Carsta Löck was a German film actress.

Andreas "Andy" Köpke is a German former football goalkeeper. After being selected for the German squads that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and reached the quarter-finals of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, he succeeded Bodo Illgner to become Germany's first-choice goalkeeper at UEFA Euro 1996 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Emil Otto Rasch was a high-ranking German Nazi official and Holocaust perpetrator, who commanded Einsatzgruppe C in northern and central Ukraine until October 1941. After World War II, Rasch was indicted for war crimes at the Einsatzgruppen trial, but the case was discontinued for medical reasons in 1948. He died in 1948 while in custody.

Jutta Lampe was a German actress on stage and in film. She was for 30 years a leading actress at the Schaubühne founded in Berlin by her husband Peter Stein, where she played both classical theatre such as Alkmene in Kleist's Amphitryon, and world premieres including Robert Wilson's Orlando for one actor, and roles that Botho Strauß created for her. She was also engaged at the Vienna Burgtheater and the Schauspielhaus Zürich. She appeared in more than twenty films from 1963, including lead roles in films by Margarethe von Trotta. Lampe was named Actress of the Year by Theater heute several times. Other awards included the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring and the Joana Maria Gorvin Prize for her life's work.

Erich Johannes Bruno Ponto was a German film and stage actor.