text: Fehmarn was the location of Jimi Hendrix's final concert, at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival, on September 6, 1970. The concert was held at Flügge Beach in the southwest. There is a memorial stone there and from 1995 through 2010, the Jimi-Hendrix-Revival-Festival was celebrated annually in September.
  The St. Nicholas Church has a baptismal font that dates from 1391.
  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.
  (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.
  Jürgen Blin (1943–2022),  a boxer, born on the island.