List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Franziska Hildebrand
Franziska Hildebrand is a German biathlete. Hildebrand started in her first world cup races in the 2011/12-season after winning three medals at the two previous European Championships. In 2014, she participated in the Winter Olympics in Sochi. She was officially nominated by the DOSB on 23 January 2014.
Hans-Christian Ströbele
Hans-Christian Ströbele, German pronunciation: [hans ˈkʀɪsti̯an ˈʃtʀøːbələ], is a German politician and lawyer. He is a member of Alliance '90/The Greens, the German green party.
Dominic Boesel
Dominic Boesel is a German professional boxer who held the WBA interim and IBO light-heavyweight titles from 2019 to 2020. At regional level he held the European light-heavyweight title from 2018 to 2019. As of October 2020, he is ranked as the world's ninth best active light-heavyweight by The Ring.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.
Nils Petersen
Nils Petersen is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for SC Freiburg and the Germany national team. He appeared in the 2016 Summer Olympics and remains the first and only German footballer who has scored five goals in a single game with the national team.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben, also referred to as Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian and later an American military officer. He served as Inspector General and a Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and discipline. He wrote Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, the book that served as the Army's drill manual for decades. He served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war.
Werner Haase
Werner Haase was a professor of medicine and SS member during the Nazi era. He was one of Adolf Hitler's personal physicians. After the war ended, Haase was made a Soviet prisoner of war. He died while in captivity in 1950.
Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge is a German author, philosopher, academic and film director.
Rainer Langhans
Rainer Langhans is a German writer and filmmaker who is primarily known for his membership of Kommune 1.
Saskia Rosendahl
Saskia Rosendahl is a German actress. She is best known for her role in the film Lore (2012), for which she won the AACTA Award for Best Young Actor.