List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Hans Sternberg was a German-Jewish stage and film actor.

Heinrich Müller was a German devotional author, Protestant writer of hymns, a Lutheran minister and theologian and a professor at the University of Rostock from 1647 to 1650. He famously denounced the font, the pulpit, the confessional, and the altar as "the four dumb idols of the Lutheran Church". He died in Rostock, aged 43.

Franz Tunder was a German composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was an important link between the early German Baroque style which was based on Venetian models, and the later Baroque style which culminated in the music of J.S. Bach; in addition he was formative in the development of the chorale cantata.

Wolfgang Ratke was a German educational reformer.

Peter Voß was a German film actor.

Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger was a German botanist, who specialised in the study of conifers.