List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Count Henry the Younger of Stolberg, was Lord of Wernigerode and stadtholder of Friesland.

Axel Hermann Peschel is a German former cyclist. His sporting career began with SC Dynamo Berlin. He competed for East Germany in the team time trial at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Peschel won the Peace Race in 1968.

Ulrike Adeberg is a German speed skater. She competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Johanne Philippine Nathusius was the founder, in 1861, of the "Elisabethstift", set up as an institution for looking after mentally handicapped boys from socially disadvantaged families. As the children grew to adulthood she expanded the remit of the "Elisabethstift" to embrace provision of education, specialist workshops and an auxiliary school for those in her care. Mindful that every individual had his own needs and potential, she took care to ensure that individually suitable employment opportunities were found. She was deeply influenced by her religious beliefs, and convinced that the sick and handicapped who were obliged to live out their lives on the fringes of society, were all loved by God, and she tried to give meaning to the lives of all those for whom she cared through the provision of appropriated education and work chances.