Editing Flensburg (section)

=== Sons and daughters of the town ===

==== The arts ====
[[File:Caius Gabriel Cibber by William Camden Edwards.jpg|thumb|140px|Caius Gabriel Cibber]]
[[File:Dieter Thomas Heck by Stuart Mentiply.jpg|thumb|140px|Dieter Thomas Heck]]
* [[Melchior Lorck]] (1526/27 – 1583), a renaissance painter, draughtsman and printmaker
* [[Heinrich Jansen]] (1625–1667), Danish Baroque painter, court painter to [[Frederick III of Denmark]]
* [[Caius Gabriel Cibber]] (1630–1700), Danish sculptor,<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Cibber,_Caius_Gabriel |volume= 06| pages = 350&ndash;351  |short=x}}</ref> appointed ''carver to the king's closet'' by [[William III of England]]
* [[Hermann Vogel (French illustrator)|Hermann Vogel]] (1856–1918), French painter and illustrator, from the [[Duchy of Schleswig]] 
* [[Adolf Strodtmann]] (1829–1879), a German poet, journalist, translator and literary historian.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Strodtmann, Adolf |volume= XVIII | page= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Ludwig Dettmann]] (1865–1944), a German impressionist painter
* [[Hans Christiansen (artist)|Hans Christiansen]] (1866–1945), artistic craftsman and [[Art Nouveau]] founder
* [[Elvira Madigan]] (1867–1889), stage name of a Danish tightrope walker and trick rider, whose illicit affair and dramatic death were the subject of a [[Elvira Madigan (1967 film)|1967 Swedish film]]
* [[Ella Heide]] (1871–1956), Danish painter, painted in [[Skagen Painters|Skagen]] from 1908
* [[Wilhelm von Brincken]] (1881–1946), American character actor and German spy during WW I 
* [[Emmy Hennings]] (1885–1948), writer, performer, poet and [[dada]]ist
* [[Dieter Thomas Heck]] (born 1937), German television presenter, singer and actor
* [[Pippa Steel]] (1948–1992), British actress<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824448/  IMDb Database] retrieved 23 March 2018</ref>
* [[Peter Lund (theatre director)|Peter Lund]] (born 1965), a theatre director and author

==== Music ====
* [[Carla Spletter]] (1911–1953), German operatic soprano
* [[Frank Dostal]] (born 1945), German songwriter, music producer, and singer with the rock band [[The Rattles]]
* [[Christian Broecking]] (born 1957), musicologist, music critic, columnist, producer and author
* [[Andreas Delfs]] (born 1959), Music Director of the [[Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra]]
* [[Dorothea Röschmann]] (born 1967), opera soprano
* [[DJ Koze]] (born 1972), German DJ and music producer
* [[Kim Frank]] (born 1982), singer and actor
* Ingrid Verena Timm (born 1985), [[Taus (instrument)|taus]] player, singer, musicologist and teacher

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-09497, Hugo Eckener.jpg|thumb|140px|Hugo Eckener, 1930]]
==== Science and religion ====
* Lütke Namens (1497–1574), the last Franciscan friar in Flensburg and critic of the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]]
* [[Thomas Fincke]] (1561–1656), Danish mathematician, physicist, and professor at the [[University of Copenhagen]]
* [[Heinrich Harries]] (1762–1802), German Protestant pastor from the [[Duchy of Schleswig]]
* [[Hans Lassen Martensen]] (1808–1884), Danish bishop and academic<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Martensen, Hans Lassen |volume= 17 | page = 787 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Theodor von Jürgensen]] (1840–1907), [[internist]]
* [[Hugo Eckener]] (1868–1954), pioneer of German [[Zeppelin]] aviation
* [[Otto Werner|Carl Wilhelm Otto Werner]] (1879–1936), German physician, after whom [[Werner syndrome]], a form of [[progeria]], was named
* [[Hans Asmussen]] (1898–1968), German Evangelical and Lutheran theologian
* [[Lorenz Magaard]] (born 1934), German-American mathematician and oceanographer
* [[Tim Clausen]] (born 1969), structural biologist in Vienna, studies [[pyridoxal phosphate]] enzymes

[[File:Annasophiaofdenmark electress of saxony.JPG|thumb|140px|Anna Sophia of Denmark]]
[[File:Marie Kruse by Søstrene Schiøtz.jpg|thumb|140px|Marie Kruse]]
[[File:Bhoehn.jpg|thumb|140px|Bärbel Höhn, 2008]]
==== Political and public service ====
* [[Hans Nansen]] (1598–1667), Danish statesman<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Nansen,_Hans |volume= 19 |last= Bain |first= Robert Nisbet |author-link= Robert Nisbet Bain| pages = 163&ndash;164 |short= 1}}</ref> and tradesman, travelled to the [[White Sea]], northern Russia and Iceland
* [[Johan Lorensen]] (ca.1640–1702), [[Governor-General]] of [[The Danish West Indies]]
* [[Christian V]] (1646–1699), king of Denmark and Norway<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Christian V. |volume= 6 | pages = 277&ndash;278 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark]] (1647–1717), daughter of [[King Frederick III of Denmark]]
* [[Frederik Krag]] (1655–1728), Danish nobleman, senior civil servant and [[Governor-General of Norway]]
* [[Johannes Moller]] (1661–1725), Danish [[pietist]] and headmaster
* [[Georg Waitz]] (1813–1886), German historian,<ref>{{Cite AmCyc |wstitle=Waitz,_Georg |short=x}}</ref> politician, and disciple of [[Leopold von Ranke]]<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Waitz, Georg |volume= 28 | page = 247 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Marie Kruse]] (1842–1923), Danish schoolteacher specializing in educating girls
* [[Friedrich von Scholtz]] (1851–1927), general, served in the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|East]] and the [[Macedonian front|Balkans]] during [[the First World War|WWI]]
* [[Nicholas Asmussen]] (1871–1941), Flensburg-born Ontario building contractor and political figure
* [[Peter Voss]] (1897–1976), SS-Oberscharführer, commander of the crematoria and gas chambers at [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]]
* [[Hans von Luck]] (1911–1997), army colonel and author of the book ''Panzer Commander''
* [[Kay Nehm]] (born 1941), German lawyer, [[Public Prosecutor General (Germany)|Attorney General of Germany]]
* [[Wolfgang Börnsen]] (born 1942), CDU politician, member of the Bundestag
* [[Jürgen Storbeck]] (born 1946), director of [[Europol]]
* [[Bärbel Höhn]] (born 1952), German politician, member of the [[Bundestag]] 
* Klaus Tscheuschner (born 1956), Lord Mayor of Flensburg
* [[Simon Faber]] (born 1968), German politician, Lord Mayor of Flensburg

==== Sport ====
* [[Charles Meyer (cyclist)|Charles Meyer]] (1868–1931), Danish racing cyclist
* [[Haide Klüglein]] (born 1939), swimmer
* [[Kristian Poulsen]] (born 1975), Danish racing driver
* [[Sascha Görres]] (born 1980), footballer in USA
* [[Kolja Afriyie]] (born 1982), football defender
* [[Niels Hansen (German footballer)|Niels Hansen]] (born 1983), football midfielder
* [[Pierre Becken]] (born 1987), footballer