List of Famous people born in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

Richard Paulick was a German architect with political connections. In professional terms his most productive period, frequently overlooked in western sources, may have been the time he spent in  Shanghai between 1933 and 1949. He has been described as the "father of East-German Plattenbau" (construction). In the eyes of admirers he was nevertheless able to bring an element of "humanisation" to the economics-driven low-cost high-density post-war reconstruction of East Germany.

Franz Joachim Wegner is emeritus professor for theoretical physics at the University of Heidelberg.

Gernot Böhme is a German philosopher and author, contributing to the philosophy of science, theory of time, aesthetics, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. He is the main pioneer of German ecocriticism, the study of the relationship between culture and the environment. He has been the director of the Institute for Practical Philosophy in Darmstadt since 2005. Despite being one of Germany's most acclaimed public intellectuals, very little of his work has so far been translated into English.