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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (* 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.
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)