List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Friedrich Weber was a German physician, botanist and entomologist. He was a pupil of Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808), and wrote Nomenclator entomologicus in 1795 at the age of 14 and Observationes entomologicae in 1801. These two works contained the first descriptions of many new insect species and also first descriptions of other invertebrates like the lobster genus Homarus.

Cladius (Claus) Detlev Fritzsch, normally referred to as C. D. Fritzsch, was a Danish flower painter.

Karl Friedrich Ernst von Großheim was a German architect and President of the Prussian Academy of Arts.

Harald Paulsen was a German stage and film actor and director. He appeared in 125 films between 1920 and 1954.

Richard Winyu Tsien, is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and neurobiologist. He is the Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, Chair of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, and Director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute at New York University Medical Center, and also an emeritus faculty member of Stanford University School of Medicine.