List of personalities of the city of Lennestadt
The list of personalities of the city of Lennestadt includes those people who were born or died in the area of today's city of Lennestadt and are of importance in the encyclopedic sense; also those who worked on site or who held honorary citizenship.
Honorary citizen
- Paul Tigges (1922-2006), writer
sons and daughters of the town
- Joseph Freusberg (1806–1889), auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Paderborn.
- Peter Soemer (1832–1902), theologian and poet
- Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte (1871–1941), Archbishop and Cardinal
- Matthias Beule (1877–1921), sculptor
- Wilhelm Arnoldi (born December 30, 1884 in Siegen , relocated to Altenhundem in 1888; † April 18, 1965 ibid) initial gate of the Hohe Bracht observation tower
- Johannes Becker (1875–1955), politician, MdR
- Franz Belke (1876–1941), sculptor
- Albert Boerger (born November 4, 1881 in Grevenbrück , † March 28, 1957 on the La Estanzuela experimental farm in Uruguay) was an award-winning agricultural scientist
- Ewald Büngener (1916–1953), sculptor, creator of the Nepomuk figure on the Lennebrücke in Grevenbrück
- Wilhelm Schneider-Didam (1869–1923), portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
- Anna Kayser (1885–1962), writer
- Reinhold Bicher (1895–1975), painter
- Hubert Tigges (1895–1971), tour operator
- Adolf Hennecke (1905–1975), miner and “activist from the very beginning” in the GDR
- Friedrich Ossig (1912–2004) administrative lawyer at the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Deutsche Bundesbahn
- Hubert Mohr (1914–2011), former Pallottine, later a historian in the GDR
- Erwin Krollmann (1930–1990), co-founder and first city director of Lennestadt
- Gerd Schulte (1943–2019), politician, MdL
- Harry Blum (1944–2000), politician and former Lord Mayor of Cologne
- Alfons Heimes (* 1946), mayor
- Friedel Schmidt (* 1946), painter, illustrator, cartoonist, writer
- Theo Kruse (* 1948), politician, MdL
- Walter Schneider (* 1949), District Administrator of the Lörrach district in Baden-Württemberg
- Margareta Wolf (* 1957), politician
- Helmut Schulte (* 1957), football coach
- Ludger Helbig , (1972 *) Cooking with a star in the Michelin guide awarded
- Benjamin Mikfeld (* 1972), politician
- Dagmar Hanses (* 1975), politician
- Christina Graf (* 1985), sports journalist; first woman to comment on a football match live on German television
- Julian Schauerte (* 1988), soccer player at SV Sandhausen
Personalities who have worked on site
- Josefa Berens-Totenohl (1891–1969), writer
- Hermann Broermann (painter) (1908–1995)
- Helmut Körschgen (1923–2002), amateur actor
- Anton Sunder-Plassmann (1860–1931), building contractor (especially church construction)