List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Ekkehard Schall was a German stage and screen actor/director.

Götz Friedrich was a German opera and theatre director.

Waldtraut Lewin was a German writer, dramaturge and stage director.

Albert Mayer was the first German soldier to die in World War I. He died one day before the German Empire formally declared war on France.

Ursula Lillig (1938–2004) was a German film and television actress.

Werner Rataiczyk was a German painter.

Frank Pasemann is a German politician. Born in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, he represents Alternative for Germany (AfD). Frank Pasemann has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2017.

On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 642 of its inhabitants, including non-combatant women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company.

Hedwig Courths-Mahler, née Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler was a German writer of formula fiction romantic novels. She used the pseudonyms Relham, H. Brand, Gonda Haack, Rose Bernd.

Wolf-Heinrich Julius Otto Bernhard Fritz Hermann Ferdinand Graf von Helldorff was an SA-Obergruppenfuhrer, German police official and politician. He served as a member of the Landtag of Prussia during the Weimar Republic, as a member of the Reichstag for the Nazi Party from 1933, and as Ordnungspolizei Police President in Potsdam and in Berlin. From 1938 he became involved with the anti-Nazi resistance, and was executed in 1944 for his role in the 20th July plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler's regime.