List of personalities of the city of Kiel

This is a list of personalities from the city of Kiel . The list does not claim to be complete.

sons and daughters of the town

The following personalities were born in Kiel. They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in the city is irrelevant.

16th Century

Christine of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (around 1610)

Georg von Lengerke (1569–1645), councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
Joachim Blüting (1572 – after 1643), court court advocate and commentator on the Jütschen Low book
Christine von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (1573–1625), Swedish queen

17th century

Heinrich Schaevius (1624–1661), high school teacher and poet
Drink Preetzen († 1676), victim of the witch persecution in Kiel
Matthias Wasmuth (1625–1688), orientalist and Lutheran theologian
Anna Pogwisch (1634–1722), noblewoman and patroness
Heinrich Günther von Baudissin (1636–1673), bailiff of Gottorp and ducal court marshal
Salomon Braun (1639–1675), physician, margravial personal physician
Friedrich von Reventlow (1649–1728), secret budget and district administrator
Bernhard von Clausenheim (1650–1710), administrative lawyer and canon
Johann von Clausenheim (1653–1720), university professor and financial politician
Hildebrand von Horn (1655–1686), diplomat
Friedrich Gramm (1667–1710), Lutheran theologian
Heinrich von Reventlow (1678–1732), Imperial Councilor
Christoph Martin Burchard (1680–1742), physician and university professor in Kiel and Rostock
Peter Friedrich Arpe (1682–1740), lawyer
Johann Peter Kohl (1698–1778), theologian and polyhistor

18th century

Tsar Peter III with his family

Johann Christian Förster (1705 – after 1762), architect, building inspector and officer
Christian Kortholt the Younger (1709–1751), Lutheran theologian
Otto Christian von Lohenschiold (1720–1761), university professor
Peter III (1728–1762), Tsar of Russia
Konrad Christiani (1732–1795), council pharmacist and senator
Georg Wilhelm Pfingsten (1746–1827), teacher of the deaf and dumb
Heinrich Wilhelm Danzmann (1759–1843), physician, city physician in Lübeck and first spa doctor in Travemünde
Karl Friedrich von Sievers (1761–1823), Danish civil servant and Vice President of the Livonian Higher Regional Court
Friedrich Alexander zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1763-1830), Prussian major general
Claudius Ditlev Fritzsch (1765–1841), painter
Hans Friedrich Nissen (1767–1848), Lutheran clergyman and provost in Segeberg
Just Friedrich von Seelhorst (1770–1857), court marshal in Ballenstedt
Georg von Sievers (1774–1843), Russian general
Albrecht Heinrich Matthias Cooking (1776–1847), Protestant theologian and clergyman
Johann Ludwig Lund (1777–1867), painter
Johann Christian Hasse (1779–1830), legal scholar
Franz Hermann Hegewisch (1783–1865), doctor, translator and liberal politician
Siegfried Detlev Bendixen (1786–1864), painter and graphic artist
Hans Detlef Friedrich Asschenfeldt (1787–1856), publisher and member of parliament
Christoph Karl Julius Asschenfeldt (1792–1856), hymn poet
August Daniel von Binzer (1793–1868), poet, journalist and fraternity member
Heinrich Moritz Gaede (1796–1834), zoologist and botanist
Johann Schweffel III. (1796–1865), entrepreneur and politician
Kaspar von Buchwaldt (1797–1875), Holstein manor owner and Danish administrative and court official
Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert (1797–1877), Prussian foundry manufacturer and designer in the fields of steam engines and locomotives
Karl von Moltke (1798–1866), Schleswig-Holstein politician in the Danish service
Anton Spetzler (1799–1852), architect and construction clerk

19th century

Detlev von Liliencron , writer, poet, playwright

Max Planck , physicist

Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Delffs (1812-1894), chemist
Ernst Hansen (1813–1864), theater actor and director
Henri Lehmann (1814–1882), classicist painter
Friedrich Volbehr (1819–1888), historian and newspaper editor
Lotte Hegewisch (1822–1903), patron and hostess of an influential literary salon
Christian Gänge (1832–1909), chemist and university professor in Jena
Theodor Hansen (1837–1923), Lutheran senior church councilor in Oldenburg
Heinrich Christian Horn (1837–1899), ship owner in Schleswig
Otto Olshausen (1840–1922), chemist and private scholar
Heinrich Radbruch (1841–1922), businessman and member of the Lübeck citizenship
Hermann Graedener (1844–1929), German-Austrian composer
Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), poet, prose and playwright
Hunold von Ahlefeld (1851–1919), Vice Admiral
Georg Hulbe (1851–1917), bookbinder and leather craftsman
Heinrich Otto Lehmann (1852–1904), legal scholar, legal historian and university professor
Erwin von Esmarch (1855-1915), bacteriologist
Kuno Francke (1855–1930), Germanist
Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1855–1934), registrar, general, member of the Prussian manor house
Max Planck (1858–1947), physicist and founder of quantum theory, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Ottomar Enking (1867–1945), writer and professor
Karl Thiessen (1867–1945), composer, pianist and music writer
Otto Vollbehr (1869–1946), chemist, inventor, antiquarian
Emma Müllenhoff (1871–1944), writer
Carl Georg Ritter (1871–1965), surgeon in Greifswald, Posen and Düsseldorf
Heinrich Missfeldt (1872–1945), sculptor
Friedrich Missfeldt (1874–1969), landscape and portrait painter
Rudolf von Spankeren (1875–1930), administrative lawyer and district administrator
Johann Theede (1876–1934), architect
Friedrich Johannes Joachim Hoffmann (1880–1963), economist and university professor
Johannes Adolph (1882 - after 1957), engineer and entrepreneur
Rudolf Ladenburg (1882–1952), physicist
Otto Eggerstedt (1886–1933), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
Elisabeth Franke (1886–1931), writer
Georg Krogmann (1886–1915), football player
Heinrich Franke (1887–1966), physicist
Richard Hansen (1887–1976), politician and party official (SPD)
Hans Aschenborn (1888–1931), African painter and author
Hans Howaldt (1888–1970), submarine commander in the First World War, entrepreneur and ocean regatta sailor
Waldemar von Prussia (1889–1945), officer and large landowner
Kurt Wittmer-Eigenbrodt (1889–1975), farmer and politician (DNVP, later CDU)
Kurt Jagow (1890–1945), archivist
Karl Peter Röhl (1890–1975), painter, graphic artist and designer, avant-garde at the Bauhaus
Paul Wenneker (1890–1979), admiral in World War II, Naval Attaché in Tokyo
Karl Alnor (1891–1940), National Socialist history educator and professor at the college for teacher training
Berthold Rodewald (1891–1966), doctor, president of the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association
Helmut Fahsel (1891–1983), Roman Catholic priest, anti-Nazi opponent, author
Paul Völckers (1891–1946), infantry general in World War II
Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers (1891–1978), art historian, advocate of the avant-garde, author and art collector
Fritz Hähnsen (1892–1965), lawyer and historian
Andreas Gayk (1893–1954), politician / parliamentary group leader (SPD) and Lord Mayor of Kiel
Hans Lubinus (1893–1973), orthopedist and regatta sailor
Albert Mähl (1893–1970), writer and journalist
Adolph Meyer (1894–1988), painter
Kurt Caesar Hoffmann (1895–1988), German naval officer, ship commander, most recently vice admiral in World War II
Max Schmidt (1895–1955), local politician (SPD), mayor of Kiel
Alfred Meusel (1896–1960), sociologist and historian
Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978), member of the House of Hohenzollern
Ferdinand Hoff (1896–1988), internist and university professor
Gustav Rassy (1896–?), Journalist and writer
Wilhelm Sievers (1896–1966), politician (NSDAP / CDU), mayor of Kiel
Irmgard Sörensen-Popitz (1896–1993), designer and artist
Robert Wanke (1896–1962), surgeon and university professor in Kiel
Bruno Diekmann (1897–1982), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, 1949–1950 Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
Walter Denkert (1897–1982), Lieutenant General in World War II
Bodo Lafferentz (1897–1975), functionary of the organization Strength through Joy
Bruno Bitter SJ (1898–1988), Jesuit working in Japan
Günther Brandt (1898–1973), anthropologist and SS-Obersturmbannführer in the security service of the Reichsführer SS
Adolf Dresler (1898–1971), media scientist
Edwin Erich Dwinger (1898–1981), writer
Patrick von Kalckreuth (1898–1970), painter
Gerhard Mischke (1898–1987), administrative lawyer and district president
Carl Schultz (1898 - after 1967), veterinarian, ministerial official and university professor
Ernst Busch (1900–1980), actor (Brecht plays), singer
Herbert Jensen (1900–1968), architect and professor
Walter Poller (1900–1975), party functionary (SPD) and editor
Manfred Roeder (1900–1971), military judge at the time of National Socialism

20th century

1901-1925

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , physicist, philosopher, peace researcher

Werner Blunck (1901–1988), economist and politician (FDP)
Oskar Epha (1901–1982), church lawyer, president of the regional church office
Willi Lausen (1901–1972), politician (SPD), member of the state and Bundestag
Robert Rehan (1901–1988), composer, violinist and pianist
Karl-Eduard Wilke (1901–1990), major general
Werner Abel (1902–1935), journalist
Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972), writer, screenwriter and terrorist
Alfred Neuhaus (1903–1975), geochemist and mineralogist
Hans Söhnker (1903–1981), actor
Wera Engels (1904–1988), actress
Emil Frey (1904–1980), lawyer and manager
Max Steenbeck (1904–1981), physicist
Heinz Suhr (1904–1985), actor and theater director
Edward Wegener (1904–1981), Rear Admiral in the German Armed Forces
Johannes Weyl (1904–1989), journalist, publisher and newspaper editor
Theodor Christensen (1905–1988), SS-Sturmbannführer
Richard Maatz (1905–1989), surgeon
Bernhard Minetti (1905–1998), actor
Helmut Lemke (1907–1990), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, 1963–1971 Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
Rudolf Leptien (1907–1977), painter, sculptor and sculptor
Hans-Hellmuth Qualen (1907–1993), politician (FDP, later non-party); Finance Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (1963–1973)
Otto Wolff (1907–1991), commissioner. NSDAP district economic advisor from Hamburg 1940–1945
Albert Heinrich Kniest (1908–1984), chess composer
Armin Jüngling (1909–1984), physician and author
Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909–1942), publicist, officer, resistance fighter ("Rote Kapelle")
Fritz Westheider (1909–1999), handball player
Dietrich Allers (1910–1975), Nazi lawyer
Hans-Diedrich Cremer (1910–1995), nutritional physiologist and university professor
Günther Lutz (1910–1946), lecturer in philosophy, National Socialist
Günther Hoffmann (1911–1986), author and director of the Shakespeare Festival in Essen
Hermann Köster (1911–1978), local politician (SPD), mayor of Kiel
Frieda Otto (1911–1985), librarian
Lotti Huber (1912–1998), actress
Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski (1912–2012), postage stamp artist
Arnulf Kuschke (1912–1995), Protestant theologian and Biblical archaeologist
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007), physicist, philosopher and peace researcher
Kurt Frey (1913–1993), education politician, General Secretary of the Conference of Ministers of Education
Hans-Joachim Herrmann (1913–2010), fighter pilot in World War II (colonel), lawyer
Herti Kirchner (1913–1939), actress and writer
Heinrich Wöhlk (1913–1991), inventor and manufacturer of contact lenses
Anna Andersch-Marcus (1914–2005), glass painter
Hans-Werner Bartsch (1915–1983), Evangelical Lutheran pastor, university professor for theology and education and peace activist
Joseph König (1915–1996), historian and archivist, director of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Wolfenbüttel
Paul Lorenzen (1915–1994), philosopher, scientific theorist, mathematician and logician
Wilhelm Stelter (1915–2008), General Physician in the Bundeswehr
Ludwig Warnemünde (1916–2002), athlete
Heiko Fenn (1918–2016), Flotilla Admiral of the German Navy, military musician, composer
Anita Bärwirth (1918–1994), gymnast and Olympic champion
Illa Blaue (1919–2018), painter
Eberhard Blum (1919–2003), 1982–1985 President of the Federal Intelligence Service
Herbert Podolske (1919–2003), handball player
Felix Anschütz (1920–2014), internist, cardiologist and university professor
Leonhard Langmann (1920–2001), politician (SPD)
Berthold Löhr (1920–1984), surgeon, professor at Christian Albrechts University
Horst Borkowski (1921–2012), Baptist clergyman
Hans Mau (1921–2012), orthopedist and professor in Tübingen
Georg-Wilhelm Rodewald (1921–1991), heart surgeon in Eppendorf
Hartwig Weidemann (1921–2009), meteorologist and oceanographer
Harald Wust (1921–2010), 1976–78 Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
Jürgen Brandt (1922–2003), 1978–83 Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
Heinrich Dahlinger (1922–2008), handball player and sailor
Herbert Rohwer (1922–2006), handball player
Kay Staack (1922–2007), 1980–1982 General Physician in the Air Force
Heinz Busch (1923–2006), actor and Low German author
Annelies Grund (* 1923), writer
Heinz Reincke (1925–2011), actor
Tana Schanzara (1925–2008), actress
Gert Specht (1925–2018), surgeon in Harburg, Lübeck and Berlin

1926-1950

Gerhard Stoltenberg , politician

Elyakim Haetzni (* 1926), Israeli politician
Judith Malina (1926–2015), actress and co-founder of the Living Theater
Werner Martienssen (1926–2010), physicist and university professor
Joachim Schweppe (1926–1999), composer and church musician
Dieter Ehrhardt (* 1927), Rear Admiral of the German Navy
Arnold Maury (1927–2018), composer
Hermann Bruhn (* 1928), brewery salesman and actor
Hans R. Griem (1928–2019), German-American physicist
Erika Ising (1928–2019), Germanist and linguist
Oswalt Kolle (1928–2010), journalist, author and film producer
Ulric Neisser (1928–2012), psychologist
Hans Gerhard Ramler (* 1928), DAG trade unionist and politician (SPD)
Dieter Schellong (1928–2018), Protestant Reformed theologian
Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928–2001), 1965–69 and 1982–92 Federal Minister, 1971–82 Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
Wilhelm Alfred Eckhardt (1929–2019), archivist
Ernst Günter Hansing (1929–2011), painter, graphic artist and creator of glass windows and metal sculptures
Helga von Kügelgen (1929–2013), politician (CDU)
Elisabeth von Ulmann (1929–2005), writer, poet and poet, wrote in High German and Low German
Berndt Heydemann (1930–2017), biologist, environment minister and author
Athanasius Wolff (1931–2013), Father of the Catholic Benedictine Order
Eckart Cordes (* 1933), bookseller
Hans Peter Ehlers (1933–2017), soccer player and coach
Klaus Rehder (1933-2018), Vice Admiral
Siegfried Keil (1934–2018), Protestant theologian and social ethicist
Detlef Krauß (1934–2010), lawyer and university professor
Hauke Lange-Fuchs (1934–2019), lawyer and author
Dierk Henningsen (* 1935), geologist and university professor
Raimer Jochims (* 1935), painter, philosopher and art historian
Maria-Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle (* 1935), chemist
Uwe Bleyl (1936-2016), pathologist
Klaus Hepp (* 1936), Swiss theoretical physicist
Hans Jörg Hofmann (1936–2010), German-Canadian paleontologist
Ulrich Huber (* 1936), lawyer and university lecturer
Hinrich John (* 1936), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Günter Matthes (1936–2019), politician (Greens), member of the state parliament in Lower Saxony (1985–86)
Heiko Braak (* 1937), neuroanatomist
Siegbert Keller (1937–2015), architect, building economist and university lecturer–
Peter Märthesheimer (1937–2004), screenwriter, film producer and novelist
Karl-Heinz Zimmer (1937–2019), politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Kiel
Kai Borsche (* 1938), cameraman and director
Erhard Forndran (1938–2018), political scientist
Antje Geerk (* 1938), stage and film actress
Lorenz Huber (* 1938), Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
Jens Ruge (1938–2015), lawyer and politician (FDP)
Karsten Wiebke (1938–2020), veterinarian and politician (SPD)
Ulrich Behl (* 1939), draftsman, graphic artist and object artist, representative of concrete art
Eckart Ehlers (* 1939), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and Low German author
Bernhard Gmelin (* 1939), cellist and university professor
Gunter Gross-Selbeck (* 1939), neuropediatrist and epileptologist
Klaus Wilms (* 1939), physician and professor emeritus
Margit Carstensen (* 1940), actress
Michael Garleff (* 1940), historian
Heinz Jacobsen (* 1940), handball official
Christiane Lesch (* 1940), illustrator and painter
Silke Reyer (1940–2011), local politician (SPD), mayor of Kiel
Bernd Struck (* 1940), physicist and handball player
Lothar Wilhelmy (* 1940), entrepreneur and founder
Hans-Peter Krämer (* 1941), business manager, sports functionary, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Cancer Aid Foundation
Rolf-Gunter Dienst (1942–2016), painter, graphic artist, art critic and publicist
Dieter Laser (1942–2020), actor
Wolfgang Schwark (* 1942), educator and university professor
Adolf Gabriel (1943–2015), handball player, handball trainer and football official
Regine Kress-Fricke (* 1943), author
Manfred Lucas (* 1943), politician, district administrator and member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
Uwe Rathjen (1943–2019), handball player
Raffael Rheinsberg (1943–2016), artist (visual arts / installations)
Holger Henze (* 1944), innkeeper, gallery owner, actor and comic author
Rüdiger Rabenstein (1944–2004), scientist
Marie-Luise Apostel (* 1945), politician (SPD)
Uwe Beyer (1945–1993), track and field athlete
Frank Geerk (1946–2008), writer
Hans-Joachim Weller (* 1946), soccer player and coach
Horst Bredekamp (* 1947), art historian
Roswitha Dierck (* 1947), actress
Wulf Kirschner (* 1947), painter and sculptor
Hannelore Conradsen (* 1948), screenwriter, film and television director
Manfred Isemeyer (* 1948), political scientist, publicist and humanist
Thomas Kluge (* 1948), social scientist and environmental researcher
Konrad Lammers (1948–2019), economist and university professor
Egon Müller (* 1948), motor sportsman
Dietmar Schöning (* 1948), member of the state parliament
Peter-René Becker (* 1949), biologist, ethologist and museum director
Michael Schilling (* 1949), Germanist, professor at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Patrick Bacqueville (* 1950), jazz musician
Antje Jansen (* 1950), politician (Die Grünen / PDS / Die Linke)
Geert Mackenroth (* 1950), politician (CDU)
Wolfgang Rohde (1950–2016), drummer of the "Toten Hosen" ("Wölli")
Holger Schück (1950–2009), sports journalist and book author

1951-1975

Heike Henkel , Olympic high jump champion

Kai Sichtermann (* 1951), bass player in the band "Ton Steine Scherben"
Manfred Stahnke (* 1951), composer and musicologist
Kurt Geisler (* 1952), writer
Hans Peter Kuhn (* 1952), sound artist and composer
Hans Michael Piper (* 1952), physician and university professor
Peter Funk (* 1953), Air Force General in the German Armed Forces
Uwe Albrecht (* 1954), art historian and university professor
Martin Sabrow (* 1954), historian
Wiebke Siem (* 1954), artist
Reiner Wehle (* 1954), clarinetist, author and professor at the Lübeck University of Music
Cornelia Conrad (* 1956), politician, member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament
Rolf Friedrich Krause (* 1956), diplomat, consul general in Marseille
Dietrich Manzey (* 1956), psychologist and university professor
Axel Milberg (* 1956), actor
Angelika Beer (* 1957) politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens, Pirate Party)
Joachim Hunger (1957–1990), sailor and medic
Doris König (* 1957), legal scholar and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
Dirk Meyer (* 1957), economist and university professor
Matthias Scheuring (1957–2020), actor
Leon Boden (1958–2020), actor, director and voice actor
Joachim Brügge (* 1958), musicologist and composer
Andreas Hoyer (* 1958), lawyer and university professor
Wolfram Knauer (* 1958), musicologist, jazz researcher and director of the Darmstadt Jazz Institute
Rainer Koch (* 1958), lawyer and football official
Olaf Becker (* 1959), volleyball player
Joachim Knuth (* 1959), journalist and radio director
Tilman Krause (* 1959), journalist and literary critic
Switgard Feuerstein (* 1960), economist and professor at Heidelberg University
Thomas Grundmann (* 1960), philosopher and university professor
Katharina Höcker (* 1960), writer
Wolfgang Hunger (* 1960), sailor and orthopedist
Olaf Rausch (* 1960), chief manager at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg
Ilme Schlichting (* 1960), biophysicist
Arnulf von Scheliha (* 1961), theologian and professor of systematic theology
Gabriele Sievers (* 1961), bodybuilder and four-time world champion
Dietmar Bachmann (* 1962), politician, member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
Martin Ehlers (* 1962), jazz musician, doctor
Michael F. Feldkamp (* 1962), historian
Andreas Köpke (* 1962), soccer player (soccer goalkeeper, European champion and world goalkeeper 1996)
Thomas Werner (* 1962), art historian, city curator
Frank Dahmke (* 1963), handball player
Buggy Braune (* 1964), jazz musician
Ole Diehl (* 1964) political scientist, diplomat, Vice-President of the BND
Friederike Föcking (* 1964), politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament
Heike Henkel (* 1964), athlete (high jump, Olympic champion 1992)
Marc Höpfner (* 1964), writer
Christoph Reinfandt (* 1964), English studies and university professor
Hans Christian Röhl (* 1964), lawyer and university professor
Susanne Baus (1965–2013), military pastor
Corinna T. Sievers (* 1965), writer and specialist dentist for orthodontics
Kai U. Jürgens (* 1966), publicist
Dirk von Petersdorff (* 1966), literary scholar and writer
Katrin Pollitt (* 1966), actress
Michael Rieneck (* 1966), game designer
Tomma Abts (* 1967), artist
Detlev Bork (* 1967), classical and flamenco guitarist
Stefan Bräse (* 1967), chemist
Susanne Gaschke (* 1967), politician (SPD) and journalist
Martin Illert (* 1967), Lutheran theologian
Peer Joechel (* 1967), bobsleigh athlete and world champion 1993

Sven Murmann (* 1967), publisher

Arne Rautenberg (* 1967), writer

André Simon (* 1967), surgeon

Cora E. (* 1968), rapper

Thorsten Ehrig (* 1969), handball goalkeeper

Nils Henkel (* 1969), cook

Katja Kessler (* 1969), journalist

Hendrik Ochel (* 1969), handball player

Sven Nagel (* 1970), comedian and author

Jost Nickel (* 1970), musician

Marcus Baur (* 1971), sailing enthusiast

Sebastian Nordmann (* 1971), director

Oliver G. Schmidt (* 1971), physicist and director of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research

Lars Weström (* 1971), actor

Oliver Held (* 1972), soccer player

Daniel Günther (* 1973), politician and Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein

Günter Heberle (* 1973), soccer player

Bettina Kurth (* 1973), actress and radio play speaker

Francisco Copado (* 1974), football player

Torben Hoffmann (* 1974), soccer player

Kim Schmitz (* 1974), IT entrepreneur, hacker and fraudster

Malte Stieper (* 1974), lawyer and university lecturer

Barbara Schmidt-Mattern (* ≈1975), radio journalist and editor

Arne Jansen (* 1975), jazz musician

Dennis Wilms (* 1975), radio and television presenter

1976-2000

Alexander Bommes , television presenter

Alexander Bommes (* 1976), handball player and television presenter
Daniel Kramer (* 1976), keyboard player and music producer
Ulrich Schnauss (* 1977), musician
Kristof Hopp (* 1978), badminton player
Stephan Katt (* 1979), motorcycle track racer
Antonia Michaelis (* 1979), writer
David Klemperer (* 1980), beach volleyball player
Geeske Banck (* 1981), beach volleyball player
Friederike Otto (* 1982), climate scientist
Gökalp Özekler (* 1982), professional boxer
Bastian Henning (* 1983), soccer player
Katharina Laß (* 1983), radio presenter
Kim Seidler (* 1983), actress
Hendrika Entzian (* 1984), jazz musician
Marisa Hart (* 1986), writer
Fin Bartels (* 1987), football player
Lisa Stick (* 1987), jazz musician
Sidney Sam (* 1988), soccer player
Tim-Philip Jurgeleit (* 1989), handball player
Selim Aydemir (* 1990), football player
Morten Michelsen (* 1991), handball goalkeeper
Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (* 1991), essayist and columnist
Robin Udegbe (* 1991), football player
Christopher Avevor (* 1992), football player
Ferhat Yazgan (* 1992), football player
Anna Behlen (* 1993), volleyball and beach volleyball player
Rune Dahmke (* 1993), handball player
Anselm Hartmann (* 1993), basketball player
Tjark Müller (* 1993), handball player
Fynn Ranke (* 1993), handball player
Joshua Bluhm (* 1994), bobsleigh athlete
Moritz Krieter (* 1994), handball player
Laurynas Kulikas (* 1994), football player
Michaela Brandenburg (* 1997), soccer player
Leonie Körtzinger (* 1997), volleyball and beach volleyball player
Fabian Reese (* 1997), soccer player
Milan Sievers (* 1998), volleyball and beach volleyball player
Noah Awuku (* 2000), soccer player
Sven Ehrig (* 2000), handball player

Personalities who lived and worked in Kiel

The following personalities were not born in Kiel, but lived and worked in the city.

Adolf IV (before 1205 - 1261)

Ulrich Behl (* 1939)

Alexandra (1942–1969)

A square in Kiel-Ravensberg is named after Alexandra

Gerhard Delling (* 1959)

Feridun Zaimoglu (* 1964)

Angelique Kerber (* 1988)

To 1900

Adolf IV. (Before 1205 - 1261), noble lord of Schauenburg, Count of Holstein and Stormarn, founder of Kiel
Henricus de Culmine (approx. 1240–1351), scholastic, founder and first rector of the Kiel School of Academics
Johann II. (1253-1321), Count of Holstein-Kiel
Christian Johann Berger (1724–1789), professor of medicine, surgery and midwifery
Henriette Friederica Elend (1741–1808), founder of the Kiel monastery
Jacob Christoph Rudolph Eckermann , Protestant theologian, university professor and rector of the University of Kiel
Johann Georg Fock (1757–1835), German-speaking Danish Evangelical Lutheran theologian
August Christian Niemann (1761–1832), forest scientist, political scientist and writer
Claus Harms (1778–1855), Lutheran pastor
Niels Nikolaus Falck (1784–1850), lawyer, historian and statesman
Peter Willers Jessen (1793-1875), psychiatrist
Georg Friedrich Witte (1799–1865) City Syndic and Appellate Judge
Carl Loewe (1796–1869) composer
Marcus Schlichting (1804–1875), teacher and politician
Leopold Friedrich Witt (1811–1890), theater music director, opera and theater director and composer
Klaus Groth (1819–1899), Low German poet
Andreas Detlef Jensen (1826–1899), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, general superintendent for Holstein
Albert Hänel (1833–1918), lawyer, constitutional lawyer and liberal politician
August Sartori (1837–1903), ship broker, shipowner and local politician
Hermann Struckmann (1839–1922), Higher Regional Court Councilor in Kiel (1884–1907)
Arnold Heller (1840–1913), pathologist and anatomist, professor at Christian Albrechts University
Stephan Heinzel (1841–1899), politician
Hans Andrae (1849–1926), judge at the Kiel Regional Court
Gustav Adolf Neuber (1850–1932), surgeon, founder of asepsis
Ferdinand von Spee (1855–1937), anatomist
Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), founder of German sociology
Wilhelm Poller (1860–1935), police chief and politician
Georg Hartmann (1862–1936), general manager
Clarita Beyer (1864–1929), painter
Gustav Jenner (1865–1920), composer and conductor
Johann Lubinus (1865–1937), orthopedist and founder of the private clinic
Otto Mensing (1868–1939), linguist
Paul Wassily (1868–1951), doctor, painter and art collector
Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe (1872–1931), inventor of the gyro compass
Julius Mugler (1872–1933), senior naval construction officer and mechanical engineering operations director
Bertha Dörflein-Kahlke (1875–1964), painter
Otto Diels (1876–1954), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950
Alexander Behm (1880–1952), inventor of the echo sounder
Karl Heinrich Hecht (1880–1961), physicist
Heinrich Hansen (1881–1955), architect
Hans Geiger (1882–1945), co-developer of the Geiger counter named after him
Lilli Martius (1885–1976), art historian, curator of the Kiel Kunsthalle
Friedrich Wendel (1886–1960), author and head of the book club "Der Bücherkreis"
Thomas Otto Achelis (1887–1967), retired teacher D., historian and author
Edgar Rabsch (1892–1964), music teacher and composer
Peter Jeschke (1895–1979), lawyer and local politician, mayor of Kiel
Hans Schanzara (1897–1984), opera singer, director, composer

From 1901

Gerhardt Böhmig (1901–1994), senior councilor and in the Kiel shipping administration
Rudolf Hell (1901–2002), inventor a. a. the Hellschreiber
Clara Ebers (1902–1997), opera singer (soprano)
Unica Bachmann-Calcoen (1904–1986), portrait and animal painter
Robert Juza (1904–1996), chemist and university professor
Annik Saxegaard (1905–1990), writer
Otti Zacharias (1906–1981), photographer
Alfred Kranzfelder (1908–1944), corvette captain, resistance fighter from July 20, 1944, teaching officer at the naval artillery school
Anni Wadle (1909–2002), communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
Hans Hermann Henseleit (1911–1997), journalist and art collector, honorary professor of Schleswig-Holstein
Wolfgang Tischler (1912–2007), zoologist and animal ecologist, professor at Christian Albrechts University
Gerd Sannemüller (1914–2008), philosopher
Otto Schlenzka (1919–2015), sailing sports official
Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996), composer, pianist and musicologist
Wolfgang Gaschütz (1920–2016), mathematician, professor at Christian Albrechts University
Käthe Maas-Belker (1920–2002), opera singer (soprano)
Lotte Brügmann-Eberhardt (1921–2018), writer
Hans Feldigl (1921–1990), conductor, choirmaster, bandmaster
Karl Lennert (1921-2012), pathologist
Heinz-Georg Sievers (1923–2007), doctor and handball player
Hans Peter Jürgens (1924–2018), marine painter and author
Arnold Finck (1925–2016), agricultural scientist, professor at Christian Albrechts University
Alfred Vökt (1926–1999), opera, concert singer (tenor)
Alexander Bernhard (* 1927), surgeon, professor at Christian Albrechts University
Hanskarl Müller-Buschbaum (1931–2016), chemist, professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität
Klaus Murmann (1932–2014), entrepreneur
Gerold Siedler (* 1933), physicist and oceanographer, professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
Eberhard Oertel (1937–2019), Kiel painter and art teacher
Wolf von Lojewski (* 1937), television journalist
Gerhard Lagaly (* 1938), chemist, professor at Christian Albrechts University
Ulrich Behl (* 1939), draftsman, graphic artist, object artist, representative of concrete art
Gorm Grimm (1941-2008), addiction medicine
Alexandra (1942–1969), singer
Zvonimir Serdarušić (* 1950), handball player and handball coach
Markus Dentler (* 1953), theater actor, theater director and theater director
Gerhard Delling (* 1959), sports reporter
Uwe Schwenker (* 1959), handball player, handball official
Arne Körtzinger (* 1963), chemist, marine researcher and university professor
Feridun Zaimoglu (* 1964), writer
Stefanie Heiden (* 1966), scientist
Christopher Ecker (* 1967), writer
Jens Raschke (born 1970), children's theater maker (playwright, dramaturge, theater director, festival curator) and author
René Schoemakers (* 1972), visual artist
Christoph Semmler (* 1980), soccer player
Patrick Ebert (* 1987), soccer player
Nedim Hasanbegović (* 1988), football player
Angelique Kerber (* 1988), tennis player
Lasse Petersdotter (* 1990), politician (B90 / The Greens)
Aminata Touré (* 1992), politician (B90 / The Greens)