Notable People
- Tomma Abts (b. 1967), painter and Turner Prize winner
- Eric Braeden (b. 1941), actor
- Alfred Brinckmann (1891–1967), chessmaster
- Ernst Busch (1900–1980), actor, writer & collector of songs
- Britta Carlson (b. 1978), footballer
- Francisco Copado (b. 1974), footballer
- Heinrich Dahlinger (1922–2008), Fieldhandball player
- Kim Dotcom (b. 1974), Internet businessman
- Bruno Diekmann (1897–1982), politician
- Cora E. (Sylvia Macco) (b. 1968), musician
- Erna Flegel (1911–2006), German nurse
- Thilo Martinho (Thilo Herrmann) (b. 1960), musician
- Michael F. Feldkamp (b. 1962), historian
- Heinrich Heesch (1906–1995), mathematician
- Rudolf Hell (1901–2002), inventor
- Heike Henkel (b. 1964), athlete
- Johannes Wolfgang Willy Friedlieb Heuer (1910–1993), businessman
- August Howaldt, founder of Howaldtswerke
- Sigrid Hunke (1913–1999), author
- Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist, co-inventor of the Geiger–Müller Counter 1928 in Kiel
- Angelique Kerber (b. 1988), tennis player
- Otto Kretschmer, U-boat commander
- Oswalt Kolle (1928–2010), author
- Andreas Köpke (b. 1962), footballer
- August Leskien (1840–1916), linguist
- Henri Lehmann (1814–1882), painter
- Helmut Lemke (1907–1990), politician
- Marina Lewycka (b. 1946), author
- Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), poet
- Carl Loewe (1796–1869), composer
- Judith Malina (b. 1926) in Kiel, co-director and founder of the Living Theatre in the United States, American actress
- Hermann Michel (b. 1912), SS officer
- Walther Müller (1905–1979), physicist, co-inventor of the Geiger–Müller Counter 1928 in Kiel
- Peter III of Russia (1728–1762)
- Max Planck (1858–1947), physicist
- Heinz Reincke (1925–2011), actor
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold, philosopher
- Sidney Sam (b. 1988), footballer
- Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909–1942), Resistance fighter
- Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972), writer
- Ulrich Schnauss (b. 1977), musician
- Manfred Stahnke (b. 1951), composer
- Ernst Steinitz (1871–1928), mathematician
- Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928–2001) politician
- Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, philosopher
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), sociologist, philosopher
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007), physicist, philosopher
- Feridun Zaimoglu (b. 1964), author and playwright
- Heiner Zieschang (1936–2004), mathematician
- Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977), writer and playwright
- Dieter Laser, Actor
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