List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Linda Hesse is a German singer.

Brigitte Grothum is a German film actress. She has appeared in 50 films since 1955. She was born in Dessau, Germany.

Sabine Moritz is a German painter and graphic designer. She is married to Gerhard Richter.

Maik Franz is a German former footballer.

Norbert Nachtweih is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Silvio Meier (1965–1992) was an East German activist and squatter who was killed by neo-Nazis in Berlin on 21 November 1992. After moving to East Berlin in 1986, Meier became involved in oppositional politics with the Church from Below. His death has been commemorated with an annual memorial march and the renaming of a street in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain.

Rolf Oskar Ewald Günter Herricht was an East German comedian.

Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.

Wibke Gertrud Bruhns was a German journalist and author. In 1971, she was the first woman to present the news on German public television. She was a journalist for several television stations, and for the Stern magazine in Jerusalem and Washington, D.C. She was also a speaker at Expo 2000.

Gustav-Adolf "Täve" Schur is a former German cyclist and one of the most popular sportspeople in East Germany. His sporting career began with SC DHfK Leipzig. He was the first German to win the amateur competition of the World Cycling Championships and the Peace Race. Between 1959 and 1990 Schur was a member of the Volkskammer, the East German parliament.