List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Karl Leberecht Immermann was a German dramatist, novelist and a poet.

Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian adaptation and a French translation.

Edward Salomon was a German American politician and the 8th Governor of Wisconsin, having ascended to office from the Lieutenant Governorship after the accidental drowning of his predecessor, Louis P. Harvey. He was the first Jewish Governor of Wisconsin.

Wilhelm Gottlieb Hankel was a German physicist who was among the first to identify pyroelectric effects and the rotation of the plane of optical polarization in fluorspar upon application of electricity.

August Gottlieb Richter was a German surgeon, born in Zörbig, Saxony.

Max Rudolf Keydell was a German classical philologist and librarian.