List of Famous people born in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

Maria von der Osten-Sacken (1901–1985) was a German screenwriter and film producer.

Wilhelm August Leopold Christian Krause was a German landscape and marine painter.

Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Olivier (1785–1841) was a German painter associated with the Nazarene movement.

Hans Bethge was a German poet whose reputation abroad rests above all on the versions of the Tang dynasty poetry set in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. The Max Eyth House in Kirchheim unter Teck houses a permanent exhibit of Hans Bethge's books, photographs and other artifacts, while his manuscripts are preserved at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach.

Gustav Lindau, was a German mycologist and botanist.

Franz Woepcke was an historian, Orientalist, and mathematician. He is remembered for publishing editions and translations of medieval Arabic mathematical manuscripts and for his research on the propagation of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in the medieval era.