List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Franz Ernst Heinrich Spitzner was a German educator and philologist who specialized in Homeric studies. He was born in Trebitz, Saxony-Anhalt.

Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen was a 17th-century German philologist.

Willi Kreikemeyer was a German labourer and a Communist. From 1941 he and his wife Marthe Kreikemeyer were close assistants of Noel Field who supported German anti-Nazi refugees in France and Switzerland. He died in East German detention as a victim of the Noel Field show trials, which had the function to replace Communist Party officials with others more aligned with Moscow.

Wolfgang Zeller was a German composer noted for his complex film music.

Johann August Nösselt was a German Protestant theologian.

Carl Johannes Thomae was a German mathematician.

Johann Friedrich August Göttling was a notable German chemist.

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

Georg Österreich was a German Baroque composer and collector. He is regarded as the founder of the so-called Bokemeyer collection which is now housed in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin and is considered one of the most important music collections of the late 17th and early 18th century.

Bruno Keil was a German classical philologist.