List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Marcel Schmelzer is a German professional footballer who plays for Borussia Dortmund as a left back, serving as captain from 2016 to 2018. He has been capped by Germany at international level. A one-club man, Schmelzer has spent his entire professional career at Dortmund.

Alexandra Kluge was a German actress and medical doctor.

Burkhard Hirsch was a German politician and civil liberties advocate. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Hirsch spent 21 years in the Bundestag. He also served five years as Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia (1975–1980).

Philip Wiegratz is a German actor. His first and most famous film role was playing Augustus Gloop in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Heinz Siegfried Heydrich was the son of Richard Bruno Heydrich and the younger brother of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. After the death of his brother, Heinz Heydrich helped Jews escape the Holocaust.

Hella Maria Brock was a German music educator, musicologist, and an internationally known Edvard Grieg scholar. Brock was professor of music and English studies at the Leipzig University. She was president, and honorary president of the Grieg-Begegnungsstätte in Leipzig until her death in 2020.

Frederica of Hanover was Queen consort of Greece from 1947 until 1964 as the wife of King Paul, thereafter Queen mother.

Manfred Kaiser was a German footballer.

Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen was a German theatre critic and political activist. She was married to philosopher Karl Marx.

Franz Seldte was a German politician who served as the Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945. Prior to his ministry, Seldte served as the Federal Leader of Der Stahlhelm World War I ex-servicemen's organisation from 1918 to 1934. Ideologically, he identified as a national conservative.