List of personalities of the city of Lübeck

The list contains important personalities who were born in Lübeck , as well as other personalities who are connected with the city of Lübeck. They are sorted according to their year of birth.

Until 1800

• before 1295, Gottschalk Warendorp , † 1365 in Lübeck, merchant and councilor in Lübeck
• around 1300, Bruno von Warendorp , † August 21, 1369 in Skåne, councilor and mayor of Lübeck
• 1310, Tidemann Warendorp , † 1366, Mayor of Lübeck
• around 1360, Henning von Rentelen , † October 6, 1406 in Paris, Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• around 1365, Hermann Korner , † 1438 in Lübeck, mercenary leader, historian and reading master, author of the Lübeck chronicle " Chronica novella "
• around 1385, Nikolaus Sachau , † October 11, 1449 in Lübeck, legal scholar and as Nikolaus II. from 1439 to 1449 Bishop of Lübeck
• 1330/37, Hinrik Paternostermaker , † 1387 in Lübeck, insurgent in the Hanseatic era
• around 1430, Johannes von Lübeck , † 1502 in Prague, Hussite theologian
• 15th century, Heinrich Westfal , † 1505 in Lübeck, carnival poet and councilor
• around 1491, Lambert Becker , † August 10, 1562 in Lübeck, legal scholar, council secretary and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 16th century, Johann Penningbüttel , † October 21, 1582 in Stade, councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1522, Laurentius Surius , † May 23, 1578 in Cologne, Carthusian monk and hagiographer
• 1539/1540, Martin Lydius , † June 27, 1601 in Franeker, Reformed theologian
• around 1550, Johann Balhorn the Younger , † after 1604, printer in Lübeck; known for its 1586 edition of the Lübeck city charter
• 1555, Janus Gulielmus , † 1584 in Bourges, philologist and poet
• 1561, April 13, Georg Meisner , † October 22, 1597 in Lübeck, educator, sub-rector of the Katharineum
• around 1577, Martin Stricker , † February 14, 1649 in Hamburg, Catholic priest and missionary
• 1587, October 22, Joachim Jungius , † September 23, 1657 in Hamburg, mathematician, physicist and philosopher
• 1590, May 11, Johannes Heinrichs , † September 9, 1664 in Lübeck, lawyer and Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• 1594, February 24, Sebastian Meier , † February 12, 1664 in Lübeck, doctor and educator
• 1608, December 6, Eberhard Baring , † March 6, 1659 in Hanover, Lutheran theologian, educator and polyhistor
• 1614, Franz Tunder , † November 5, 1667 in Lübeck, organist and composer
• 1625, February 27, Johannes Francke , † April 30, 1670 in Gotha, Syndicus in Lübeck and Councilor in Gotha; Father of August Hermann Francke
• 1627, November 19, Erasmus Finx , † December 20, 1694 in Nuremberg, polyhistor, author and hymn poet
• 1630, David van der Bruges , † April 19, 1688 in Lübeck, teacher and librarian
• 1631, Thomas Baltzar , † July 24, 1663 in London, violinist and composer
• 1631, Benjamin von Block , † 1689 in Regensburg, portrait painter
• 1634, November 21st Johann Vermehren , † November 7th 1710, court advisor to five dukes of Mecklenburg
• 1638, June 29th, Heinrich Meibom , † March 26th 1700 in Helmstedt, physician, discoverer of the Meibomian glands named after him
• 1641, August 11, Adam Tribbechov , † August 16, 1687 in Gotha, Protestant theologian, historian and ethnologist
• 1645, June 16, Anton Heinrich Gloxin , † January 22, 1690 in Lübeck, lawyer and imperial councilor
• 1646, August 8th, Godfrey Kneller , born as Gottfried Kniller, † October 19, 1723, court painter to several British monarchs
• 1649, April 23, Andreas Kneller , † August 24, 1724 in Hamburg, composer and organist
• 1649, April 24, Bartholomäus Botsack , † April 16, 1709 in Copenhagen, Lutheran theologian, Braunschweig superintendent, pastor and university professor in Copenhagen
• 1659, February 16, Peter Lackmann , † October 17, 1713 in Oldenburg in Holstein, Protestant theologian and sacred song writer
• 1659, April 8, Christian Funck , † November 10, 1729 in Aurich, pastor and historian
• 1659, November 10, Michael Vermehren , † April 25, 1718 in Lübeck, German Lutheran theologian
• 1660, Paul Vermehren , † September 1729, electoral Saxon chief post director
• 1663, March 22nd, August Hermann Francke , † June 8th 1727 in Halle (Saale), pedagogue and theologian, founder of the Francke Foundations named after him in Halle (Saale)
• 1664, Peter Schnering , † May 4, 1725 in Lübeck, merchant and councilor
• 1665, Johann Wolter , † August 17, 1721 in Lübeck, lawyer and councilor
• 1666, October 8, Gerhard Lüders , † September 2, 1723 in Lübeck, merchant and councilor
• 1673, June 23, Heinrich Sivers , † November 6, 1736, cantor
• 1681, May 15, Caspar Heinrich Starck , † February 17, 1750 in Siebenbäume, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and church historian
• around 1692, Adam Brand , † 1746, businessman and explorer
• 1699, Michael Gottlieb Vermehren , † December 1, 1748 in Lübeck, lawyer and senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1707, December 24, Carl Heinrich von Heineken , † January 23, 1791 in Altdöbern, Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor, director of the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett, art writer and collector, brother of the Lübeck child prodigy CH Heineken
• 1709, February 20, Paul Vermehren , † February 2, 1750 in Lübeck, Lübeck merchant and councilor
• 1709, April 8, Henrich Jacob Sivers , † August 8, 1758 in Tryserum, Lutheran theologian, pastor and scholar
• 1714, Johann Friedrich Brandt , † April 18, 1777 in Lübeck, merchant and councilor
• 1721, February 6, Christian Henrich Heineken , † June 27, 1725 in Lübeck, "Lübecker Wunderkind"
• 1729, September 20, Jacob Leonhard Vogel , † April 7, 1798 in Eutin, Lutheran clergyman
• 1730, February 13, Hermann Adolph Wilcken , † February 18, 1801 in Lübeck, Council Syndicate
• 1733, August 12, Johann Hermann Harmsen , † January 23, 1799 in Lübeck, Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor of St. Mary's Church
• 1735, March 24th, Balthasar Münter , † October 5th, 1793 in Copenhagen, enlightener, Protestant pastor and court preacher in Gotha and Copenhagen
• 1736, December 15, Daniel Joachim Köppen , † June 8, 1807 in Zettemin, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, author and school reformer.
• 1743, January 9, Johann Gerhard Köppen , † March 29, 1813 in Lübeck, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, pastor to St. Petri
• 1748, January 1, Matthias Ludwig Leithoff , † October 22, 1821 in Eutin , doctor and founder of the first orthopedic hospital
• 1753, October 9, Conrad Nicolaus Boy , † April 16, 1793 in Berlin, sculptor
• 1755, August 21, Christian Adolph Overbeck , † March 9, 1821 in Lübeck, mayor and poet
• 1757, February 22, Johann Georg Trendelenburg , † March 11, 1825, philologist
• 1761, February 3, Johann Hinrich Meyer , † July 26, 1850 in Lübeck, ship's carpenter
• 1761, September 24, Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen , † January 28, 1817 in Copenhagen, composer
• 1762, October 27, Berend Kordes , † February 5, 1823 in Kiel, philologist and librarian
• around 1766, Heinrich Christian Schnoor , † after 1828 in Breslau, composer and songwriter of the Romantic era
• 1766, January 1, Georg Philipp Schmidt von Lübeck , † October 28, 1849 in Ottensen, north German poet
• 1768, November 29, Gottlob Wilhelm Meyer , † May 19, 1816 in Erlangen, Lutheran theologian, clergyman and university professor
• 1775, April 21, Friedrich Köppen , † September 5, 1858 in Erlangen, philosopher and university professor
• 1777, June 6, Johann Bernhard Vermehren , † November 29, 1803 in Jena, romantic and private lecturer
• 1789, July 3, Johann Friedrich Overbeck , † November 12, 1869 in Rome, painter and head of the Nazarenes
• 1793, November 15, Hermann Carl Dittmer , † February 21, 1865 in Lübeck, Councilor (Senator from 1848) of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• 1794, February 13, Johann Jacob Achelius , † April 14, 1870 in Lübeck, master glazier
• 1794, September 28, Hans Jacob Albrecht Meyer , † August 9, 1877 in Lübeck, ship's carpenter
• 1796, April 2, Ludwig Heinrich Matthias Hauttmann , † November 21, 1861 in Lübeck, painter and lithographer
• 1797, November 5, Johann Joachim Christian Zerrenner , † March 5, 1856 in Lübeck, educator, 1819 head of the original fraternity
• 1798, February 2, Heinrich von der Hude , † March 20, 1853 in Lübeck, Syndicus and Senator Lübeck
• 1799, April 23, Ferdinand von Westphalen , † July 2, 1876, Prussian Minister of the Interior in the Reaction Era (1850–1858)
• 1800, Friedrich Leonard von Soltau , † July 15, 1846, folk song collector
• 1800, July 9, Johann Jochim Diedrich Stiehl , † June 27, 1872 in Lübeck, organist and composer

19th century

1801 to 1850

• 1802, October 7th Heinrich Laakmann , † June 14th 1891 in Tartu, printer, publisher and bookseller in Estonia
• 1803, October 21, Carl Trotsche , † January 28, 1879 in Rostock, lawyer
• 1805, April 25, Ludwig Heller , † June 29, 1878 in Lübeck, pastor
• 1805, December 24th, Louis von Moltke , † August 2nd, 1889 in Ratzeburg, administrative lawyer and councilor in the Duchy of Lauenburg
• 1807, July 27, Friedrich Avé-Lallemant , † December 26, 1876 in Lübeck, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and librarian
• 1808, April 30, Ernst Raber , † August 1852, doctor and parliamentarian
• 1808, September 26, Jakob Daniel Hoffmann , † January 29, 1885 in Lübeck, writer
• 1809, May 23, Friedrich Christian Avé-Lallemant , † July 20, 1892 in Berlin-Marienfelde , criminalist and writer
• 1811, March 6, Theodor Curtius , † November 25, 1889 in Lübeck, Mayor of Lübeck
• 1811, June 9, Hermann Christian von Fehling , † July 1, 1885 in Stuttgart, chemist
• 1812, March 18, Heinrich Lomer , † August 29, 1875 in Leipzig, fur wholesaler
• 1812, July 25, Robert Christian Avé-Lallemant , † October 10, 1884 in Lübeck, doctor and explorer
• 1813, April 17th, Friedrich Luger , † 1890 in Lübeck, pastor at the cathedral and author
• 1814, September 2, Ernst Curtius , † July 11, 1896 in Berlin , archaeologist and historian
• 1815, October 17, Emanuel Geibel , † April 6, 1884 in Lübeck, poet
• 1817, October 26, Konrad Geibel , † April 24, 1872 in Lübeck, organist and composer
• 1819, September 22nd Friedrich Krüger , † January 17, 1896 in Berlin, lawyer and diplomat, Lübeck representative to the German Reich
• 1821, September 8, Wilhelm Gläser , † May 28, 1907 in Lübeck, publisher, antiquarian and librarian
• 1821, November 29, Friedrich Crome , † December 16, 1883 in Baden-Baden, Imperial Councilor of Justice in Leipzig
• 1822, January 5, Kurd von Schlözer , † May 13, 1894 in Berlin, diplomat and historian
• 1824, March 14, Johann Wilhelm Cordes , † August 16, 1869 in Lübeck, painter
• 1826, July 12, Carl Stiehl , † December 1, 1911 in Lübeck, music director
• 1827, August 9, August Sartori , † May 20, 1908 in Lübeck, educator
• 1828, November 1, Emil Minlos , † August 31, 1901 in Travemünde, Royal Prussian Consul in Maracaibo, businessman, social reformer
• 1829, August 5, Heinrich Stiehl , † May 1, 1886 in Reval , composer and conductor
• 1829, August 20, Emil Cordes , † October 11, 1900 in Munich, doctor
• 1830, June 2, Hermann von der Hude , † June 4, 1908 in Berlin, architect
• 1840, August 22, Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann , † October 13, 1891 in Lübeck, businessman and father of Thomas and Heinrich Mann
• 1840, December 22, Minna Hauttmann , † June 19, 1887 in Lübeck, painter
• 1841, April 5, Minna Rüdiger , † February 27, 1920 there, writer, wrote, among other things, the culturally and historically valuable Lübeck novel Unforgotten
• 1842, March 10, Paul Kollmann , † January 9, 1915 in Dresden, statistician, head of the Statistical Bureau in Oldenburg
• 1842, June 3, Karl Grammann , † January 30, 1897 in Dresden, composer
• 1842, June 22, Heinrich Lindenberg , † March 3, 1924 in Lübeck, Lutheran clergyman
• 1844, March 22nd, Charles Hornung Petit , † February 6th, 1934 in Lübeck, businessman, consul and member of the citizenship
• 1844, August 19, Herrmann Eschenburg , † January 1, 1920 in Lübeck, entrepreneur, mayor of Lübeck
• 1846, March 30, Heinrich Lenz , † January 16, 1913 in Lübeck, teacher, zoologist and director of the Museum of Natural History in the Museum am Dom
• 1846, December 1, Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus , † October 11, 1946 in Cape Town, businessman
• 1847, August 3, Emil Ferdinand Fehling , † August 3, 1927 in Lübeck, lawyer, mayor of Lübeck
• 1848, February 23, Hermann Wilhelm Stockmann , † December 28, 1924 in Kiel, District President and member of the German Reichstag
• 1848, April 10, August Eschenburg , † May 22, 1910 in Lübeck, commander of the Danzig Infantry Regiment, most recently major general
• 1848, June 23, Hermann Blohm † March 12, 1930 in Hamburg, entrepreneur and shipbuilder
• 1848, August 18, Paul Vermehren , † September 2, 1944 in Lübeck, architect
• 1848, December 2, Ernst Heller , † June 22, 1909 in Charlottenburg, industrialist
• 1850, February 13, Emil Possehl , † February 4, 1919 in Lübeck, businessman and patron
• 1850, November 28, Gotthardt Kuehl , painter

1851 to 1900

• 1851, March 9, Julius Pierstorff , † January 16, 1926 in Jena, national economist
• 1851, April 3, Johannes Heller , † November 28, 1880 in Berlin, historian
• 1853, January 11, Gustav Falke , † February 8, 1916 in Großborstel / Hamburg, writer
• 1853, June 12, Esther Carlebach , † February 14, 1920 in Lübeck, wife of Rabbi Salomon Carlebach
• 1855, March 8, Julius Vermehren , † February 5, 1928 in Lübeck, lawyer and notary as well as Senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• 1856, August 7, Eduard Hahn , † February 24, 1928 in Berlin, agrarian ethnologist, geographer and economic historian
• 1858, July 9, Hans Calm , † January 27, 1945 in Dessau, actor, language teacher and author
• 1858, October 23, Christian Reimpell , † February 5, 1926 in Lübeck, senior pastor at Lübeck Cathedral
• 1859, April 20, Ernst August Scherling , † August 3, 1939, first managing director of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH (GEG)
• 1859, May 21, Johannes Becker , † August 7, 1919 in Lübeck, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor to St. Marien
• 1859, December 2, Wilhelm Dahms , † January 27, 1939 in Lübeck, printer, publisher and publicist
• 1862, February 25, Wilhelm Deecke , † October 23, 1934 in Freiburg im Breisgau, geologist and historian
• 1863, July 12, Cornelia Schorer , † January 9, 1939 in Potsdam, one of the first German women to receive a doctorate in medicine
• 1865, March 14th, Maria Slavona , † May 10th 1931 in Berlin, impressionist painter, sister of Cornelia Schorer
• 1866, October 1, Julius Havemann , † August 30, 1932 in Klempau near Krummesse, writer
• 1868, May 25, Titus Türk , † June 7, 1952 in Lübeck, Rear Admiral
• 1869, September 9, Gustav Kühl , † October 20, 1906 in Berlin, librarian and writer
• 1869, October 8, Eva von Baudissin , † February 11, 1943 in Munich, writer
• 1871, January 22, Marcus Bade , † May 29, 1936 in Aabenraa, Provost
• 1871, March 27, Heinrich Mann , † March 11, 1950 in Santa Monica / California (USA), writer (Professor Unrat)
• 1871, August 10, Ferdinand Grautoff , † May 15, 1935 in Leipzig, journalist (Leipzig Latest News) and writer (Seestern: 1906)
• 1872, September 14, Karl Boy-Ed , † September 14, 1930 in Grönwohld, naval officer, diplomat and spy
• 1872, October 17, Andreas Hofmeier , † July 23, 1963 in Eutin, church musician, music teacher and composer
• 1874, July 5, Clara Lenz , † 1963, painter
• 1875, June 6, Thomas Mann , † August 12, 1955 in Zurich / Switzerland, writer (Buddenbrooks), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1876, March 16, Theodor Eschenburg , † February 26, 1968 in Kiel, Rear Admiral of the Imperial German Navy and Adjutant General of Emperor Wilhelm II.
• 1876, May 31, Otto Grautoff , † April 27, 1937 in Paris, art historian, Romanist, journalist and translator
• 1877, January 28, Karl Eschenburg , † December 13, 1943 in Rostock, politician, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1929–1932
• 1877, February 26, Anna Gasteiger , † December 16, 1954 in Munich, painter
• 1878, March 30, Werner Krüger , † July 21, 1931 in Cologne, cyclist
• 1878, May 1, Ida Beer-Walbrunn , † October 22, 1951 in Munich, painter
• 1878, November 21, Gustav Radbruch , † November 23, 1949 in Heidelberg, legal scholar and politician
• 1879, March 12, Ephraim Carlebach , † October 1936 in Ramat Gan, then Palestine, rabbi and founder of the Higher Israelite School in Leipzig
• 1880, January 1, Ernst Ludwig Voss , † January 24, 1961 in Verden, diplomat
• 1880, August 4, Max Friedrich Gerhard Hoffmann , † June 18, 1945 in Halle / Saale, physicist and university professor
• 1880, August 5, Hermann Lüdemann , † May 25, 1959 in Preetz, politician (SPD), MdL (Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein), Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (1947–49), State Minister in Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein
• 1880, November 28, Erwin Albert Barth , † July 10, 1933 in Berlin, garden designer
• 1881, January 2, Rodolfo Groth , † February 7, 1985 in Lübeck, businessman and patron
• 1881, February 5, Johannes Hefti , † July 7, 1936, businessman and spokesman for the Lübeck citizenship
• 1881, July 16, Johannes Sievers , † February 16, 1959 in Lübeck, economist and senior church councilor of the German Christians
• 1881, August 3, Reinhold Lütjohann , † August 6, 1958 in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek, actor and radio play speaker
• 1882, February 5, Iwan Brandes , † March 1, 1935 in Berlin, naval officer, most recently rear admiral of the Reichsmarine
• 1882, August 2, Johannes Tralow , † February 27, 1968 in East Berlin, novelist, narrator, playwright and publicist; Pseudonym Hanns Low
• 1882, September 21, Friedrich Ranke , † October 11, 1950 in Basel, Germanist and folklorist
• 1883, January 30, Joseph Carlebach , murdered March 26, 1942 in the Jungfernhof concentration camp near Riga, rabbi, victim of the Holocaust
• 1884, April 2, Günther Tessmann , † November 15, 1969 in Curitiba (Brazil), explorer, botanist and ethnologist
• 1884, December 14, Erich Ponto , † February 4, 1957 in Stuttgart, actor
• 1885, February 21, Hermann Pister , † September 28, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech, SS-Oberführer and commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp
• 1885, March 1, Jürgen Fehling , † June 14, 1968 in Hamburg, director
• 1885, August 28, Kurt Vermehren , † October 2, 1962 in Tegernsee, lawyer
• 1886, March 18, Emil Knapp , † January 17, 1973 in Lübeck, trade union official and politician
• 1887, April 25, Johannes Brüggen , in Chile also Juan Brüggen Messtorff, † March 7, 1953 in Santiago de Chile, German geologist and Chilean university professor
• 1887, October 9, Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt , † January 31, 1984 in Braunschweig, painter and graphic artist
• 1889, April 3, Hans-Heinz Hinzelmann , † June 25, 1970 in Berlin, theater director and librettist
• 1890, April 12, Viktor Mann , † April 21, 1949 in Munich, younger brother of the writers Heinrich and Thomas Mann
• 1890, July 29, Paul Bock , † March 23, 1968 in Lübeck, entrepreneur and politician (CDU)
• 1893, April 14, Siegfried Kramarsky , † December 25, 1961 in New York City, banker, art collector and patron
• 1893, May 27, Paul Helwig , † August 7, 1963 in Munich, psychologist, philosopher, theater director and screenwriter
• 1893, July 31, Paul Leverkuehn , † March 1, 1960 in Hamburg, lawyer, defense agent and politician (CDU)
• 1893, August 2, Petra Vermehren , † October 31, 1971 in Bonn, journalist
• 1895, March 12, Helmuth Brinkmann , † September 26, 1983 in Dießen, naval officer, lastly vice admiral in World War II
• 1896, May 10, Luise Klinsmann , † June 9, 1964 in Lübeck, politician (SPD)
• 1897, June 1, Hildegard Heise , † December 19, 1979 in Hamburg, photographer of the New Objectivity
• 1897, August 19, Alfred Hagelstein , † August 10, 1956 in Hamburg, entrepreneur and politician (CDU)
• 1898, February 5, Fiete Krugel-Hartig , † August 17, 1982 in Lübeck, actress
• 1898, July 2, Otto Heinrich Dräger , † June 28, 1986, factory owner, economist, social scientist and entrepreneur
• 1899, March 11, Karl Rathsack , † November 13, 1989 in Hanover, agricultural chemist
• 1900, January 12, Berta Wirthel , † April 10, 1979 in Lübeck, politician (SPD)
• 1900, March 19, Hans Gerhard Evers , † April 8, 1993 in Hofgeismar, art historian and university professor
• 1900, August 4th, Anneliese Würtz , † April 1981, actress, radio play and voice actor
• 1900, August 5, Eberhard Godt , † September 13, 1995, naval officer, most recently rear admiral in World War II, close associate of Karl Dönitz

20th century

1901 to 1925

• 1901, April 20, Adolf Busemann , † November 3, 1986 in Boulder (Colorado, USA), aerodynamicist
• 1901, July 2, Georg Benick , † January 11, 1992 in Lübeck, lawyer and entomologist
• 1902, August 16, Wulf Rittscher ; † March 10, 1957 in Berlin, theater and film actor
• 1902, November 26th, Walther Schröder , † October 31st 1973 in Lübeck, mechanical engineer and NSDAP politician, Member of the Parliament
• 1903, September 11, 1903, Wilhelm Bock , † May 1, 1945 in Berlin, Gestapo officer and SS leader
• 1904, November 15, Karl Gieth , † 2001 in Lübeck, painter and graphic artist
• 1905, March 5, Günther Lüders , † March 1, 1975 in Düsseldorf, actor
• 1905, August 3, Albrecht Wegener , † April 7, 1973 in Ulm, lawyer and politician
• 1906, May 5, Gustav-Adolf Wolter , † December 22, 1997 in Lübeck, non-fiction author
• 1909, June 12, Wolfgang Frank , † July 19, 1980 in Lübeck, writer
• 1909, December 3, Hermann Engels , † January 20, 1973, politician, member of the state parliament
• 1910, July 22, Hans Schwichtenberg , † August 3, 1991, member of the Bundestag and Member of Parliament (SPD)
• 1911, March 11, Chaim Cohn , died April 10, 2002 in Jerusalem, Israeli Justice Minister
• 1911, March 15, Wilhelm Mohnke , † August 6, 2001 in Hamburg, officer of the Waffen SS
• 1911, April 15, Felix F. Carlebach , † January 23, 2008 in Manchester, rabbi in Manchester, honorary citizen of Lübeck
• 1913, March 14, Gundel Thormann , † after 1991, actress
• 1913, December 18, Willy Brandt , † October 8, 1992 in Unkel near Bonn, Federal Chancellor (1969–74), Federal Foreign Minister (1966–69), Chairman of the SPD (1964–87), recipient of the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1914, July 14, Gertrud Meyer , † November 19, 2002 in Oslo, resistance fighter and at Willy Brandt's side in Norway
• 1914, August 14, Heinz Hirsacker , † April 24, 1943 in Kiel, submarine commander in World War II
• 1915, January 26, Wolfgang Joseph Krauss , † after 1983, writer
• 1915, March 6, Benny de Weille , † December 17, 1977 on the island of Sylt, composer, band leader ("I call all women baby")
• 1915, June 25, Michael Vermehren , † November 3, 2010 in Marbella, journalist and foreign correspondent
• 1916, June 14, Karl-August Siegel , † October 8, 1990 in Osnabrück, auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Osnabrück
• 1917, November 23, Gerhard Wilcken , † January 9, 2011 in Schopfheim, architect and civil engineer
• 1917, December 14, Annemarie Schuster , † May 25, 1996, politician (CDU)
• 1918, January 24, Gerhard Boldt , † May 7, 1981 in Lübeck, officer (Rittmeister) in the Führerbunker in Berlin
• 1918, April 21, Isa Vermehren , † July 15, 2009 in Bonn, cabaret artist, film actress and religious sister
• 1919, June 10, Adolf Roeper , † September 15, 2009, judge at the Federal Labor Court
• 1919, December 23, Erich Vermehren , † April 28, 2005 in Bonn, defense agent, insurance broker and founding president of Una Voce
• 1920, July 13, Hans Blumenberg , † March 28, 1996 in Altenberge near Münster, philosopher and writer
• 1920, July 19, Kurt Tittel , † August 20, 2016 in Leipzig, doctor and university professor
• 1922, January 29, Erwin Riegel , † April 12, 1982 in Bad Harzburg, journalist, member of the state parliament and member of the citizenship (SPD)
• 1922, February 5, Rudolf Lorenzen , † November 27, 2013 in Berlin, writer
• 1923, December 27, Manfred Heidmann , † May 19, 2020 in Essen, actor, singer, radio play, dubbing and news presenter
• 1925, April 16, Jürgen Pagels , † May 3, 2010 in Lübeck, German-American dancer, choreographer and university professor
• 1925, May 31, Heinz Lund , politician (SPD), † May 3, 2016 in Lübeck, member of the state parliament and senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1925, September 7, Casimir Katz , † March 21, 2008 in Rastatt, entrepreneur and publisher

1926 to 1950

• 1926, May 10, Günter Schmidt , † December 23, 2016 in Deutsch Evern, arachnologist and tarantula systematist
• 1926, July 4, Rolf Bremer , † May 5, 1991 in Elmshorn, lawyer, administrative officer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
• 1926, August 16, Hans-Heinrich Kempcke , † April 18, 2002 in Henstedt-Ulzburg, German sculptor
• 1927, September 9, Hermann Doose , † April 23, 2018 in Kronshagen near Kiel, child neurologist, epileptologist and university professor
• 1927, October 10, Rolf Winter , † September 29, 2005 in Hamburg, journalist and non-fiction author
• 1927, November 3, Karl Eigen , † May 13, 2016, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, President of the Schleswig-Holstein Farmers' Association
• 1928, January 14th, Fritz Schulze , theologian and politician (SPD), MdL
• 1928, February 4, Hans-Christoph Schmidt-Lauber , † April 27, 2009 in Vienna, Evangelical Lutheran theologian
• 1928, May 16, Kai Sudeck , † October 20, 1995 in Ratzeburg, painter and graphic artist
• 1928, May 20, Hans-Otto Kröner , † October 31, 2015 in Trier, classical philologist and professor at the University of Trier
• 1927, May 21, Horst Dreyer , † October 27, 2019, clergyman
• 1928, October 3, Anneliese Poppinga , † April 16, 2015, employee of Konrad Adenauer
• 1929, May 28, Horst Frank , † May 25, 1999 in Heidelberg, actor
• 1930, December 27, Hannelore Schlaf , † March 28, 1985 in Frankfurt am Main, table tennis player and official
• 1932, April 2, Jürgen Domes , † September 22, 2001 in Sulzbach / Saarland, political scientist and professor at the University of Saarland
• 1932, May 5, Wolfgang Prange , † February 15, 2018, historian
• 1932, July 17, Walter Hedemann , † November 6, 2019, songwriter and cabaret artist
• 1934, August 10, Manfred Clasen , † June 4, 1992, politician (DVU)
• 1934, August 22nd, Volker Beuthien , legal scholar
• 1934, August 24th, Udo Lampe , university rector
• 1935, February 27, Helmut von der Lippe , † July 11, 2010 in Lübeck, journalist and author
• 1935, June 3, Sigrid Böge , mathematician and university professor
• 1935, August 18, Peter Klasen , sculptor, painter and photographer
• 1935, December 13, Heinrich Maul , lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1979 to 2000
• 1936, June 4, Jonas Geist , † January 6, 2009 in Lübeck, architect, urban planner, architectural historian and author
• 1936, July 18, Christof Römer , † May 17, 2017, regional historian
• 1936, November 7th, Christian Giermann , naval officer, most recently flotilla admiral of the German Navy
• 1937, Ann Wolff , Swedish artist
• 1937, April 25, Richard Motsch , legal scholar
• 1937, July 3rd, Cay Lienau , classical philologist, geographer and neo-Greekist
• 1939, November 9, Björn Engholm , Federal Minister for Education and Science (1981–82), Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (1982), Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (1988–93), Chairman of the SPD (1991–93)
• 1940, January 26, Rüdiger Möbusz , † December 13, 1993 in Lübeck, politician (SPD)
• 1940, February 14, Thomas Deecke , † July 4, 2017 in Berlin, art historian
• 1940, April 21, Peter Schneider , writer
• 1940, July 4th, Jürgen Heinsch , football player
• 1940, September 20, Jörn Gruber , Romance studies and university professor
• 1941, February 26, Hans-Jürgen Wolter , † February 25, 2019 in Lübeck, lawyer and politician (SPD)
• 1941, March 18, Hartmut Freytag , Germanist and university professor
• 1941, March 22nd, Klaus Peter Dencker , writer (visual poet)
• 1942, Heinrich von Gyldenfeldt , † in Lübeck, university lecturer and cabaret artist
• 1942, July 19, Gerhard Haß , judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1943, Renate Menken , pharmacist
• 1943, August 8, Karl Feldkamp , writer
• 1943, November 7th, Jan Koolman , biochemist
• 1944, Harm Paulsen , experimental archaeologist
• 1944, Burghard Pieske , circumnavigator
• 1944, February 28, Henning Paulsen , † May 28, 1994 in Hamburg, Protestant theologian
• 1945, Thomas Radbruch , internationally renowned photographer
• 1945, June 24th, Ingrid Kasten , Germanist and university professor
• 1945, July 2nd, Klaus Rainer Goll , teacher and writer
• 1946, February 1, Jakob Mattner , artist
• 1946, February 7, Arthur Ozolins , Canadian pianist
• 1946, February 22nd, Brigitte Wokoeck , figure skater
• 1946, June 9, Joachim Höppner , † November 18, 2006 in Germering, actor, director, voice actor and reciter
• 1946, July 21, Hans-Albrecht Koch , Germanist, university professor and librarian
• 1947, Matthias Janz , church musician, choir director
• 1947, January 14th, Peter Nogly , football player
• 1947, January 28th, Hans-Joachim Priebe , anesthetist and university professor
• 1947, May 22, Marliese Dobberthien , † April 4, 2017, politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag, State Councilor in Hamburg
• 1947, June 11, Lili Fischer , artist
• 1947, July 18, Jörg Ziercke , 2004–14 President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)
• 1947, August 29, Henner Leyhe , † November 23, 2017, singer and university professor
• 1947, December 4, Rüdiger Kowalke , † February 16, 2019 in Hamburg, restaurateur
• 1947, December 17th, Bettina Blumenberg , writer and translator
• 1948, May 9th, Margit Eschenbach , filmmaker, university lecturer and photographer
• 1948, June 3, Wolfgang Nešković , lawyer, politician and former judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1948, July 3, Renate Groepel , SPD politician
• 1948, November 29th, Jörg Wontorra , television presenter and television producer
• 1949, Petra Falk , painter
• 1949, April 25th, Reinhard Priebe , lawyer and former director of the European Commission
• 1949, April 26, Gerd Walter , politician (SPD), 1992–2000 Minister for Federal and European Affairs and 1996–2000 additionally Minister of Justice of Schleswig-Holstein
• 1950, Ralf Dose , educationalist and LGBT activist
• 1950, Joachim Pradel , judge
• 1950, March 17th, Rötger Feldmann , alias Brösel , comic artist
• 1950, April 13th, Aarne Kreuzinger-Janik , General and 14th Inspector of the Air Force
• 1950, August 16, Jens Michow , German lawyer and specialist book author
• 1950, August 20, Michael Reinecke , composer

1951 to 1975

• 1951, April 8, Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz , † January 20, 2016 in Berlin, politician (FDP)
• 1952, October 13, Elisabeth Motschmann , politician (CDU)
• 1953, Wolfgang Jacobsen , film historian, author and editor
• 1953, June 13, Michael Augustin , writer and radio editor
• 1953, August 27, Jutta Scheicht , politician (CDU)
• 1954, Wilfried Bernhardt , political official, State Secretary in the Saxon State Ministry of Justice and for Europe
• 1954, March 29, Caroline Schwarz , politician (CDU), state representative for minorities and culture
• 1955, Dirk Laasch , actor and radio play speaker
• 1955, November 7th, Wolfram Eicke , † June 5th, 2019 in front of Haffkrug, writer and songwriter
• 1956, February 29, Thomas Schwark , historian and museum director
• 1956, April 24th, Axel Fischbacher , jazz musician
• 1956, October 11th, Andreas Krause , Vice Admiral and Inspector of the Navy of the Bundeswehr
• 1956, December 22nd, Michael Dahms , football player
• 1957, Angelika Henschel , social worker and university professor
• 1957, March 10, Barbara Fenner , television and theater actress, radio play speaker and author, voice actor and journalist
• 1958, Jochen Proehl , artist
• 1958, January 26th, Wolfram König , politician (Greens) and head of authority
• 1959, Olaf Otto Becker , photographer and designer
• 1960, Klaus Krüger , historian
• 1960, January 2, Christian Bartolf , author
• 1960, January 20, Anita Klahn , politician (FDP)
• 1960, April 23, Christian Stoll , oral and maxillofacial surgeon, chief physician and university professor
• 1960, July 30, Ingo Gädechens , professional soldier and politician (CDU)
• 1960, December 2, Justus von Dohnányi , actor (including " The Downfall ", " The Experiment ")
• 1961, Ralf Lankau , media scientist and professor
• 1961, Dirk Skreber , painter
• 1961, Martina Steinkühler , theologian, author and publisher's editor
• 1961, August 20, Maren Winter , b. Lorenz, author and puppeteer
• around 1962, Birgit Beer , singer
• 1962, Holger Roggelin , Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
• 1962, April 12th, Martin Klein , garden and landscape planner and author of children's and youth literature
• 1962, May 1st, Christof Stein-Schneider , guitarist
• 1962, May 9, Henning Radtke , lawyer and university professor
• 1962, July 28th, Arne Lorenz , author and director
• 1962, August 8, Ralph Rieckermann , musician and film composer ( Scorpions )
• 1963, March 18, Stefan Dräger , CEO of Drägerwerke AG
• 1963, May 12, Lutz Hein , physician, pharmacologist and university professor
• 1964, Robin Detje , author, translator and director
• 1964, Ursula Keller , author and translator
• 1964, July 6th, André Holst , journalist, showmaster & entertainer
• 1964, December 15, Karen-Susan Fessel , writer
• 1965, April 25, Wolfgang Mörike , jazz musician
• 1965, May 11, Christian Honhold , boxer
• 1965, June 21, Carsten Borkowski , composer
• 1965, July 17th, Bastian Sick , journalist and book author
• 1965, November 3rd, Anja Piel , politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), leader of the Green parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament since 2013
• 1966, Christian Friege , manager
• 1966, Kirsten Krüger , sculptor
• 1966, June 6th, André Parker , singer (You get under my skin)
• 1966, September 6th, Bernhard Wolff , entertainer, speaker, author and backspeaker
• 1966, December 24th, Kristian Thees , radio presenter
• 1967, Babett Klimmeck , film architect
• 1967, February 12, Björn Lücker , jazz musician
• 1967, May 3, Martin Nolte , lawyer, sports lawyer and university professor
• 1967, July 21, Olaf Fritsche , writer
• 1967, July 21, Nicola Hümpel , theater and opera director
• 1967, November 15, Ullrich Krause , mathematician, chess player and President of the German Chess Federation
• 1967, December 6th, Christoph Stiba , since 2013 Secretary General of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany
• around 1968, Annette Goessel , painter
• 1968, Andreas Marx , chemist
• 1969, February 11th, Birte Schrein , actress and theater pedagogue
• 1969, July 18, Gerrit Koch , lawyer and politician (MdBü, MdL), (FDP)
• 1969, July 23, Kai Dolgner , politician (SPD)
• 1969, July 23rd Kai Meyer , journalist and author
• 1969, September 2, Robert Habeck , writer and co-federal chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
• 1969, December 3rd, Melanie Marschke , actress
• 1970, August 17th, Ralf B. Wehrspohn , physicist and science manager
• 1971, Dagrun Hintze , author
• 1971, May 16, Thomas Knorr , handball player
• 1971, May 27, Beatrix von Storch , lawyer and politician (AfD)
• 1972, Daniel Kaiser , broadcast journalist (NDR)
• 1972, January 27, Kay Ramczyk , actor
• 1972, October 19, Birger Petersen , composer and musicologist
• 1973, September 28, Cornelius Hartz , author
• 1973, November 20, Mike Barten , soccer player and coach
• 1974, April 1st, Sandra Völker , swimmer
• 1974, July, Kristina Sterz , journalist and television presenter
• 1975, Frank Meyer , lawyer and university professor
• 1975, November 21, Florian Ambrosius , television presenter and journalist

1976 to 2000

• 1979, October 20, Deniz Dogan , football player
• 1978, April 16, Isabelle Höpfner , actress, voice actress
• 1978, May 16, Constanze Becker , actress and director
• 1979, February 16, Franz Koch , Manager
• 1980, January 27th, Johanna Kühl , German-Swedish fashion designer
• 1980, March 25th, Christian H. Voss , theater director
• 1980, July 15, Anna Funck , journalist and television presenter
• 1981, April 11th, Marie-Louise Dräger , lightweight rower who became world champion in double sculls in 2003 and 2005
• 1982, Maria Magdalena Ludewig , † December 31, 2018 in front of Fuerteventura, director, curator and author
• 1982, April 22nd, Christina Rohde , handball player
• 1982, September 24th, Lars Schlichting , soccer player
• 1982, September 20, Gülcan Kamps , presenter at the music channel Viva
• 1984, August 2nd, Matthias Alexander Rath , dressage rider
• 1985, May 9th, Sven-Sören Christophersen , handball player
• 1985, May 24th, Angie Geschke , handball player
• 1986, May 21, Tobias Kamke , tennis player
• 1986, October 3rd, Simon Grotelüschen , laser sailor
• 1989, May 8th, Colja Löffler , handball player
• 1990, September 20, Jonas Nay , actor
• 1993, January 18, Nils Kretschmer , handball player
• 1993, June 21, Sebastian Jakubiak , football player
• 1994, March 18, Cara Hartstock , handball player
• 1994, June 2nd, Finn Kretschmer , handball player
• 1995, October 19, Christoph Schlichting , handball player
• 1996, February 25th, Katharina Naleschinski , handball player
• 1996, May 20, Carolyn McGregor , actress
• 1996, September 6th, Esther Heesch , top model
• 1998, January 15, Ersin Zehir , football player
• 1999, February 20, Lea van Acken , actress

Other personalities

Here is an overview of people who lived and worked in Lübeck, but were not born there.

• Bernt Notke (around 1435–1509), painter and picture carver
• Johann Heinrich Meibom (1590–1655), doctor and professor of medicine, since 1629 first city doctor and personal physician to the Bishop of Lübeck
• Dieterich Buxtehude (around 1637–1707), composer, was organist at the Marienkirche from 1668
• Johann Adolph Höltich (1641–1704), doctor of both rights, town clerk of Mölln and lawyer in Lübeck
• Salomon Carlebach (1845–1919), community rabbi
• Ida Boy-Ed (1852–1928), journalist, writer and patron
• Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg (1856–1937), painter, art educator and art historian
• Otto Anthes (1867–1954), teacher and writer
• Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), anarchist and writer
• Leo Landau (1880–1960), lawyer and notary and until April 1933 chairman of the Lübeck Jewish community
• Harry Maasz (1880–1946), horticultural architect and horticultural writer. In 1914 he received the gold medal from the cities of Altona and Lübeck for horticultural exhibitions.
• Karl Gatermann the Elder Ä. (1883–1959), painter, draftsman and graphic artist. Lived and worked in Lübeck from 1904 to 1907 and from 1919 to 1942.
• Hans Peters (1885–1978), graphic artist and painter
• Alen Müller-Hellwig (1901–1993), hand weaver
• Hans-Werner Matern (1906–1996), landscape painter
• Hugo Distler (1908–1942), composer, organist at the Jakobikirche from 1931 to 1936
• Gertraud Evers-Boelter (1913–2006), graphic designer and artist at Kunst-am-Bau
• Lisa Dräger (1920–2015), patron, recipient of the Bene Merenti award
• Ingeborg Bukor (1926–1986), sculptor
• Edith Carstensen (1926–2018), silhouette artist, honorary chairwoman of the “Lübeck Help for Children with Cancer e. V. "
• Günter Grass (1927–2015), Nobel Prize for Literature, writer and graphic artist
• Hans-Lothar Fauth (1928–2012), restaurateur and local politician (CDU), honorary citizen of Danzig
• Uwe Gatermann (1938–2013), competitive athlete, marathon run, walking
• Werner Heise (1944–2013), mathematician
• Mathieu Carrière (born 1950), actor
• Mareike Carrière (1954–2014), actress
• Dennis Kruppke (* 1980), soccer player
• Cédric Makiadi (* 1984), football player
• Ahmet Arslan (* 1994), football player