List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Arnold Edward Ortmann was a Prussian-born United States naturalist and zoologist who specialized in malacology.The standard author abbreviation A.E.Ortmann is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Robert Hausmann was a notable 19th-century German cellist who premiered important works by Johannes Brahms and Max Bruch. He was the cellist for the Joachim Quartet and taught at the Berlin Königliche Hochschule für Müsik.

Gustav Strube was a German-born conductor and composer. He was the founding conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1916, and taught at the Peabody Conservatory. He wrote two operas, Ramona, which premiered in 1916, and The Captive, which premiered at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore in February 1938. He was also a member of Baltimore's famous Saturday Night Club with H. L. Mencken.

Johann August Just was a German keyboard player, violinist and composer.

Friedrich Heinrich Adolf Bernhard Marx was a German musicologist.

Charles Zeuner was an organist and composer active in Germany for a time, and then in Boston and Philadelphia in the United States.

Azriel Hildesheimer was a German rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering moderniser of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism.