| Surname | 
Data | 
Remarks
 | 
| 
Norbert Abels
 | 
(* 1953)
 | 
Publicist, musician, literary and musicologist, chief dramaturge at the Frankfurt Opera
 | 
| 
Theresia Albers
 | 
(1872–1949)
 | 
Teacher and founder of the order
 | 
| 
Thomas Astan
 | 
(* 1942)
 | 
Religious priest and former actor
 | 
| 
Tom Astor
 | 
(* 1943)
 | 
Singer, composer of the hit and country scene
 | 
| 
Julius Bamberger
 | 
(1880–1951)
 | 
Department store owner in Bremen
 | 
| 
Theodor Balzer
 | 
(1874–1944)
 | 
Architect in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel
 | 
| 
Louisa Bartel
 | 
(* 1965)
 | 
Lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
 | 
| 
Rötger Belke-Grobe
 | 
(1940-2007)
 | 
Farmer, entrepreneur and local politician
 | 
| 
Joseph Ernst Berghoff
 | 
(1888-1919)
 | 
philologist
 | 
| 
Friedel Birker
 | 
(1907–1969)
 | 
Lutheran pastor, church planter and founder of the Martinswek Dorlar
 | 
| 
Rudolf zur Bonsen
 | 
(1886–1952)
 | 
Administrative lawyer and district president
 | 
| 
Franz Dameris
 | 
(1902-1991)
 | 
Philosopher and painter
 | 
| 
Carl Johann Ludwig Dham
 | 
(1809-1871)
 | 
Lawyer, politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49
 | 
| 
Matthias Droste
 | 
(1792–1864)
 | 
catholic priest
 | 
| 
Heinrich Döpp-Vorwald
 | 
(1902–1977)
 | 
Educational scientist, philosopher, author and university professor
 | 
| 
Rupert Erythropel
 | 
(1556-1626)
 | 
Evangelical pastor and ancestor of one of the oldest Hanoverian scholar families
 | 
| 
Albert Falcon
 | 
(1922-2010)
 | 
CDU politician, member of the NRW state parliament (July 21, 1962 to May 28, 1980), federal chairman of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs from 1965 to 1969
 | 
| 
Hermann Falke
 | 
(1933-1986)
 | 
Painter and graphic artist
 | 
| 
Franz Falke
 | 
(1885–1951)
 | 
Textile entrepreneur
 | 
| 
Paul Falcon
 | 
(1920–1990)
 | 
Textile entrepreneur and mayor
 | 
| 
Johann Leonhard Falter
 | 
(around 1735–1807)
 | 
Baroque and Rococo sculptors and carvers
 | 
| 
Hans Frankenthal
 | 
(1926–1999)
 | 
was deported with his parents from Schmallenberg to Auschwitz, survived the Holocaust and returned to Schmallenberg despite the murder of his family.
 | 
| 
Franz Geueke
 | 
(1887–1942)
 | 
Journalist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
 | 
| 
Hinrich Grauenhorst
 | 
(1919–1998)
 | 
Sauerland artist, painter, illustrator, sculptor, architect and storyteller
 | 
| 
Joseph Grobe
 | 
(* 1931)
 | 
Chemist and university professor
 | 
| 
Paul-Heinz Guntermann
 | 
(1930-2006)
 | 
Consultant in the Catholic Foreign Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference and was its director from 1981 to 1993.
 | 
| 
Gottfried Heine
 | 
(1849-1917)
 | 
Teacher, musician and author
 | 
| 
Josef Hellermann
 | 
(1885–1964)
 | 
Teacher, school council and mayor of Recklinghausen as well as member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.
 | 
| 
Jessica Henkel
 | 
(* 1978)
 | 
Radio presenter and editor
 | 
| 
Franziskus Hennemann
 | 
(1882–1951)
 | 
Mission Bishop, named Titular Bishop of Coptus in 1913, Bishop of Cape Town (South Africa)
 from 1933 to 1949 | 
| 
Christian Hesse
 | 
(* 1960)
 | 
Mathematician and university professor
 | 
| 
Joseph Hengesbach
 | 
(1860-1940)
 | 
Catholic publicist
 | 
| 
Franz Hoffmeister
 | 
(1898–1943)
 | 
Catholic priest and founder of the Sauerland Heimatbund
 | 
| 
Hedwig Jungblut-Bergenthal
 | 
(1914–1987)
 | 
Dialect author and poet
 | 
| 
Matthias Kamann
 | 
(* 1961)
 | 
Journalist and author
 | 
| 
Thomas Kemper
 | 
(* 1951)
 | 
Press spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group (1986–1992) and the CDU NRW (1987–1992), government spokesman and state secretary for media in North Rhine-Westphalia (June 8, 2005 to August 31, 2006)
 | 
| 
Jörg Kniffka
 | 
(1941-2008)
 | 
Pastor, theologian, sociologist and university professor
 | 
| 
Karl Knipschild
 | 
(1935-2016)
 | 
Politician and member of the state parliament
 | 
| 
Christine Koch
 | 
(1869–1951)
 | 
Poet of the Sauerland dialect. She received the Klaus Groth Prize (1939) and the Westphalian Literature Prize (1944).
 | 
| 
Franz Joseph Koch
 | 
(1875-1947)
 | 
Teacher and author developed the Koch finger reading method
 | 
| 
Heinrich Knoche
 | 
(1831-1911)
 | 
Teacher and author
 | 
| 
Johann Rotger Koene
 | 
(1799-1860)
 | 
Philologist, teacher, author and dialect researcher
 | 
| 
Renate & Werner Leismann
 | 
(1942–2016 and 1936–2015)
 | 
singing siblings from the field of pop hits and folk music
 | 
| 
Bernhard Menne
 | 
(1901–1968)
 | 
Journalist and publicist (including editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag)
 | 
| 
Margret Mönig-Raane
 | 
(* 1948)
 | 
last federal chairwoman of the trade union trade, banking and insurance (HBV) and then deputy chairwoman of the united service union, head of the ver.di federal department trade, vice-president of the Union Network International (UNI) and chairwoman of the association of substitute funds (VdAK)
 | 
| 
Johann Heinrich Montanus
 | 
(1680–1743)
 | 
catholic priest
 | 
| 
Johann Caspar Nückel
 | 
(1753-1814)
 | 
Lawyer, councilor and university professor
 | 
| 
Emericus Quincken
 | 
(1639-1707)
 | 
Abbot of the county monastery
 | 
| 
Hanna Rademacher
 | 
(1881–1979)
 | 
Writer
 | 
| 
Dieter Ruddies
 | 
(1921-2015)
 | 
Local politicians and entrepreneurs
 | 
| 
Franz Schäfer
 | 
(1879-1958)
 | 
Lawyer and university professor as well as President of the Saarbrücken Regional Court
 | 
| 
Franz shuddered
 | 
(1848–1910)
 | 
Episcopal commissioner in Magdeburg and author
 | 
| 
Günther shuddered
 | 
(* 1954)
 | 
Archaeologist, former Deputy General Director of the National Museums in Berlin, since 2011 Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
 | 
| 
Heinrich shuddered
 | 
(1882–1975)
 | 
Professor of Religious Folklore and First Chairman of the Sauerland Heimatbund (1924–1928)
 | 
| 
Julian shivered
 | 
(* 1988)
 | 
Soccer player
 | 
| 
Karl Schneider
 | 
(* 1952)
 | 
District Administrator of the Hochsauerlandkreis (since 2005)
 | 
| 
Peter Schran
 | 
(* 1949)
 | 
TV journalist, filmmaker and producer
 | 
| 
Heinz Schüngeler
 | 
(1884–1949)
 | 
Music pedagogue, pianist, composer and editor of musical textbooks
 | 
| 
Josef Schüttler
 | 
(1902–1972)
 | 
CDU politician, member of the Landtag ( Baden , 1946–1949), member of the Bundestag (1949–1960) and Minister of Labor in Baden-Württemberg (1960–1968)
 | 
| 
Carl Siebert
 | 
(1922–2012)
 | 
Sauerland painter, engraver and sculptor
 | 
| 
Michael Soeder
 | 
(1921-2008)
 | 
Doctor and writer
 | 
| 
Květoslav Spurný
 | 
(1923-1999)
 | 
Aerosol researcher and author as well as president of the Society for Aerosol Research
 | 
| 
Michael Spanner
 | 
(† 1742)
 | 
Baroque architect and builder of the Grafschaft Abbey
 | 
| 
Christine Teipel
 | 
(1621-1630)
 | 
Victims of the witch trials in Oberkirchen
 | 
| 
Heribert Vollmer
 | 
(* 1964)
 | 
Computer scientist and university professor
 | 
| 
Alfred Voss
 | 
(* 1945)
 | 
Energy scientist and university professor
 | 
| 
Reinhard J. Voss
 | 
(* 1949)
 | 
Historian, author and former general secretary of the German section of Pax Christi
 | 
| 
Johann Benedikt Willmes
 | 
(1743-1823)
 | 
Lawyer, justice of the peace and university professor
 | 
| 
Karl Willeke
 | 
(1875-1956)
 | 
Teacher and author
 |