* Jens Peter Møller (1783 in Faaborg - 1854), a Danish landscape painter
* Marie Staal (1806 in Faaborg - 1871), a Norwegian-Danish stage actor
* Carl Dahl (1812 in Faaborg -- 1865), a marine painter during the Danish Golden Age
* Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen (1827 in Østerby - 1912), a Danish landscape painter
* Niels Moeller Lund