# List of people from Kiel

The following is a list of notable people who were born in Kiel.

## Born in Kiel
### Up to 1800

* Peter III of Russia (1728–1762), emperor of Russia for six months in 1762.
* Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736–1807), German-Danish philosopher and statistician
* Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823), an Austrian philosopher
* Johan Ludwig Lund (1777–1867), Danish painter
* Carl Loewe (1796–1869), composer, tenor singer and conductor
* Gustav Adolf Michaelis (1798–1848), obstetrician and physician

### 1801 to 1850

* August Howaldt (1809–1889), founder of Howaldtswerke
* Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Delffs (1812–1894), chemist
* Otto Jahn (1813–1869) an archaeologist, philologist and writer on art and music.
* Henri Lehmann (1814–1882), born French historical painter and portraitist
* Adolf Michaelis (1835–1910), classical scholar, a professor of art history
* Robert Michaelis von Olshausen (1835–1915), obstetrician and gynecologist
* August Mau (1840–1909), art historian and archaeologist
* August Leskien (1840–1916), linguist, active in comparative linguistics
* Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), lyric poet and novelist
* Hermann Graedener (1844–1929), composer, conductor and teacher

### 1851 to 1900

* Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), sociologist, philosopher
* Kuno Francke (1855–1930), American educator and historian at Harvard University
* Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1855–1934), the fourth Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, became Duke of Schleswig-Holstein in 1931
* Eduard Schwartz (1858–1940), classical philologist, wrote about the second Catilinarian conspiracy
* Max Planck (1858–1947), theoretical physicist whose work on quantum mechanics won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
* Johannes Weiss (1863–1914), Protestant theologian and Biblical exegete
* George Eyser (1870–1919) German-American gymnast
* Ernst Steinitz (1871–1928), mathematician, wrote on projective configuration
* Anton Schifferer (1871–1943), business executive and politician (NLP; DVP)
* Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist, co-invented the Geiger–Müller Counter in 1928
* Hans Anton Aschenborn (1888–1931), animal painter of African wildlife
* Paul Werner Wenneker (1890–1979), admiral and diplomat
* Alfred Brinckmann (1891–1967), chess International Master and author
* Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977), writer and playwright
* Bruno Diekmann (1897–1982), politician (SPD), Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein 1949–1950
* Karl Ristenpart (1900–1967), conductor
* Ernst Busch (1900–1980), actor, singer, writer and collector of songs

### 1901 to 1925

* Rudolf Hell (1901–2002), inventor, invented the Hellschreiber
* Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1901–1982), American mathematician, worked on partial differential equations
* Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972), national-revolutionary writer and right-wing Freikorps member
* Eduard Wald (1905–1978), Communist politician, trade unionist and member of the German Resistance against Nazism
* Walther Müller (1905–1979), physicist, co-invented the Geiger–Müller Counter 1928
* Heinrich Heesch (1906–1995), mathematician, worked on Group theory
* Helmut Lemke (1907–1990), Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein 1963-1971
* Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909–1942), Resistance fighter
* Herbert Schultze (1909–1987), U-boat commander
* Klaus Wittkugel (1910–1985), commercial and poster artist in the East Germany
* Lauritz Lauritzen (1910–1980), politician (SPD)
* Erna Flegel (1911–2006), nurse in the Führerbunker
* Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski (1912–2012), graphic artist known for her postage stamps designs
* Karl Hass (1912–2004), German Lieutenant-Colonel in the SS
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007), physicist, philosopher
* Hermann Michel (1912–1984?), SS officer
* Otto Kretschmer (1912–1998), U-boat commander
* Joachim Hamann (1913–1945), Baltic-German Nazi SS officer
* Heinrich Wöhlk (1913–1991), optometrist, invented the plastic contact lens
* Sigrid Hunke (1913–1999), author, made claims of Muslim influence over Western values
* Heinrich Springer (1914–2007), Waffen-SS knights cross winner
* Kunigunde Bachl (1919–1994), member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
* Eberhard Blum (1919–2003), fourth head of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau
* Heinrich Dahlinger (1922–2008), field handball player
* Shimon Wincelberg (1924–2004), American television writer and Broadway playwright

### 1926 to 1950

* Judith Malina (1926–2015), American actress
* Elyakim Haetzni (1926–2022), Israeli lawyer and member of the Knesset
* Ulric Gustav Neisser (1928–2012), American psychologist and member of the US National Academy of Sciences
* Oswalt Kolle (1928–2010), sex educator
* Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928–2001), politician (CDU), minister and minister-president
* Manfred Rulffs (1935–2007), rower
* Heiner Zieschang (1936–2004), mathematician, was a topologist
* Heiko Braak (born 1937), anatomist, contributed to the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease
* Eckart Johannes Wagner (1938–2002), sailor
* Ilse Gramatzki (born 1939), operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto
* Eric Braeden (born 1941), German-American actor
* Dieter Laser (1942–2020), actor
* Marina Lewycka (born 1946), British novelist of Ukrainian origin
* Egon Müller (born 1948), motorcycle speedway rider

### 1951 to 1975

* Manfred Stahnke (born 1951), composer and musicologist
* Ewald Schnug (born 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scientific Center for Fertilizers
* Duchess Donata of Mecklenburg (born 1956), senior remaining member of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
* Axel Milberg (born 1956), actor
* Anke Ehlers (born 1957), psychologist, expert in post traumatic stress disorder
* Andreas Brandstätter (1959–2006), diplomat
* Ilme Schlichting (born 1960), biophysicist studied biomolecules using protein crystallography
* Thilo Martinho (born 1960), musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter
* Michael F. Feldkamp (born 1962), historian and journalist
* Andreas Köpke (born 1962), footballer
* Heike Henkel (born 1964), high jumper, 1992 Olympic winner
* Feridun Zaimoğlu (born 1964), German author and playwright
* Detlev Bork (born 1967), classical and flamenco guitarist
* Tomma Abts (born 1967), painter and Turner Prize winner
* Fritz Felgentreu (born 1968), politician (SPD)
* Cora E. (born 1968), hip-hop artist
* Daniel Günther (born 1973), politician (CDU)
* Francisco Copado (born 1974), footballer
* Gesche Joost (born 1974), design researcher, e.g. on human-computer interaction
* Kim Dotcom (born 1974), German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist

### Since 1976

* Alexander Bommes (born 1976), handball player and journalist
* Ulrich Schnauss (born 1977), electronic musician and producer
* Daniel Ansorge (born 1978), electronic musician, producer and DJ
* Britta Carlson (born 1978), footballer
* Lasse Rempe-Gillen (born 1978), mathematician
* Caspar Frantz (born 1980), classical pianist
* Sidney Sam (born 1988), footballer
* Laura Freigang (born 1998), footballer