List of Famous people born in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Hannskarl Bandel
Hannskarl Bandel, was a German-American structural engineer.
Wilhelm Müller
Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller was a German lyric poet, most well known as the author of Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, the famous Franz Schubert song cycles.
Uwe Schulze
Susanne Evers
Adolf von Heydeck
Gustav Adolf (Adolph) Heideck, from 1836 von Heideck was a German painter. A classmate of Friedrich and Ferdinand Olivier in Dessau, he studied at the Hauptschule there with Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. Apart from this he is not known to have any formal training, and is referred to in documentation as an "Autodidakt" and "Dilettant", or amateur, in painting and etching. From 1813 to 1820 he was in Rome, and he returned there in 1837. He also traveled to Terni and to Naples, and is known to have been in Olevano in 1820.
Christa Gottschalk
Klemens Koschig
Thomas Wagner
Georg Steindorff
Georg Steindorff was a German Egyptologist.