Editing Sylt (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:CorneliusBoyJensen1814-1886.png|thumb|150px|Cornelius Boy Jensen, 1814–1886]]
* [[Dirk Meinerts Hahn]] (born 1804 in Westerland, Sylt – 1860) best known as the captain of the ship ''Zebra'' that he captained to South Australia
* [[Cornelius Jensen]] (1814 in Sylt – 1886) a Danish sea captain for 20 years; arriving in San Francisco in 1848, he became a rancher, a vintner and served as a California politician.
* [[Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius]] (1834 in Sylt – 1911) the first female dentist in Germany
* [[Gustav Jenner]] (1865 in Keitum – 1920) a German composer, conductor and musical scholar and the only formal composition pupil of Johannes Brahms
* [[Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen]] (1867–1942 in Sylt) a German military aviation pioneer, lived in Sylt from 1928
* [[Margarete Boie]] (1880 – 1946) a German author in the 1920s incorporating the history, landscape and people of Sylt
* [[Anita Rée]] (1885 – 1933) a German-Jewish painter, lived and worked here
*[[Heinz Reinefarth]] (1903 – 1979) a German [[SS]] commander during [[World War II]] and government official in [[West Germany]] after the war. During the [[Warsaw Uprising]] of August 1944 his troops committed numerous [[World War II atrocities in Poland#Warsaw Uprising atrocities|atrocities]]. After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of [[Westerland, Germany|Westerland]] and member of the [[Schleswig-Holstein]] [[Landtag]]
* [[Boy Lornsen]] (1922 in Keitum – 1995) a German sculptor and author of children's literature
* [[Dora Heldt]] (born Bärbel Schmidt, 1961 in Sylt) a German author