List of Famous people born in Altenburg, Germany
Uwe Rösler
Uwe Rösler is a German football manager and former player who manages Fortuna Düsseldorf.
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia was the fifth daughter of Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Duchess Amelia of Württemberg. She is an ancestor of the British, Greek, Romanian, Yugoslavian, and Spanish Royal Families through her elder daughter Olga.
Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer
Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer was a German historian. He was the father of mineralogist Otto Erdmannsdörffer.
Bernhard von Lindenau
Baron Bernhard August von Lindenau was a German lawyer, astronomer, politician, and art collector.
Johann Severin Vater
Johann Severin Vater was a German theologian, biblical scholar, and linguist.
Albert IV, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
Albrecht, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, was a ruler of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach. He was the seventh son of Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt. His regnal name Albert IV derives from the numbering of the duchy of Saxony as a whole, not specifically to the succession in Saxe-Eisenach.
John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Johann Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, was a duke of Saxe-Weimar.
Frederick William III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Friedrich Wilhelm III, was a duke of Saxe-Altenburg.
Sophie Mereau
Sophie Friederike Mereau was a writer associated with German Romanticism. Her maiden name was Schubart, but she did most of her work under the married name of Mereau. She also later married a second time, to writer Clemens Brentano, and took her husband's surname. She wrote novels, stories and poems, and she translated and published journals.
Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg
Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg was a German noblewoman. She was a princess of Saxe-Altenburg by birth and a princess of Anhalt by marriage.