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.^[1]
• Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736–1807), German-Danish philosopher and statistician
• Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823), an Austrian philosopher^[2]
• Johan Ludwig Lund (1777–1867), Danish painter
• Carl Loewe (1796–1869), composer, tenor singer and conductor^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• Henri Lehmann (1814–1882), born French historical painter and portraitist
• Adolf Michaelis (1835–1910), classical scholar, a professor of art history
• gynecologist
• August Mau (1840–1909), art historian and archaeologist
• August Leskien (1840–1916), linguist,^[6] active in comparative linguistics
• Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), lyric poet^[7] 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
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
  in 1931
• second Catilinarian conspiracy
• Max Planck (1858–1947), theoretical physicist whose work on quantum mechanics won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
• Biblical exegete
• George Eyser (1870–1919) German-American gymnast
• projective configuration
• Anton Schifferer (1871–1943), business executive and politician (NLP; DVP)
• Geiger–Müller Counter
  in 1928
• Hans Anton Aschenborn (1888–1931), animal painter of African wildlife
• Paul Werner Wenneker (1890–1979), admiral and diplomat
• International Master
  and author
• Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977), writer and playwright
• 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
• 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
• Geiger–Müller Counter
  1928
• Heinrich Heesch (1906–1995), mathematician, worked on Group theory
• 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
• 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
• 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^[8]
• Duchess Donata of Mecklenburg (born 1956), senior remaining member of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• Axel Milberg (born 1956), actor
• post traumatic stress disorder
• Andreas Brandstätter (1959–2006), diplomat
• 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

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