Editing Fehmarn (section)

==Notable residents==
* [[Johann Horkel]] (1769 in Burg auf Fehmarn – 1846), a German physician and botanist.
* [[Benedikt Niese]] (1849 in Burg auf Fehmarn – 1910), a German classical scholar.
* [[Charlotte Niese]] (1854 in Burg auf Fehmarn – 1935), a German writer, poet and teacher.
* [[Frederick W. Schumacher]] (1863–1957), an American philanthropist and businessman. 
*  [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]] (1880–1938), a German expressionist painter and printmaker, lived on the island 1908 to 1912–1914.
* {{ill|Peter Wiepert|de}} (1890-1980), builder and writer; born in the village of Bisdorf. The museum on the island is named after him.
* [[Lina Heydrich]] (1911–1985), born in the village of Avendorf. Her husband [[Reinhard Heydrich]], (1904–1942)  was a high-ranking German SS and police official and principal architect of the Holocaust. They had a summer home on the island which she ran as a restaurant after the war, until it burned down in February 1969.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lehrer |first=Steven |title=Wannsee House and the Holocaust |year=2000 |pages=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ahrZF9pAZJ0C |isbn=978-0-7864-0792-7}}</ref>
* [[Jürgen Blin]] (1943–2022), a boxer, born on the island.