List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Gustav Hartmann
Johann Arndt
Johann Arndt was a German Lutheran theologian who wrote several influential books of devotional Christianity. Although reflective of the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy, he is seen as a forerunner of Pietism, a movement within Lutheranism that gained strength in the late 17th century.
Karl Blossfeldt
Karl Blossfeldt was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher, and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the ways in which plants grow. He believed that "the plant must be valued as a totally artistic and architectural structure."
Fritz Heckert
Martin Schede
Gottfried Meisner
Lucas Cranach III.
Georg Dittmann
Samuel Scheidt
Samuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.