List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Franz Friedrich Nicklisch was a German actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1931 and 1975. He is buried at the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf next to his brother Hans Nicklisch.

Richard Ermisch was a German architect, painter and graphic designer. From 1903 to 1906, he attended the 'Königliche Preußische Baugewerkschule' at Erfurt. For a short time, he worked with Karl Doflein in Berlin, and from 1907 to 1922 at the municipal building control office in Charlottenburg, which was an independent city until 1920. Afterwards, he was employed at the municipal construction office of Berlin until he retired in 1950. In between, he became Baurat in 1921, Oberbaurat in 1929, later Magistratsbaurat and finally Stadtbaudirektor, head of the Berlin municipal building office.

Konrad H. Jarausch is a German-American historian and the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The focus of his work has been German history, with his earlier work being on Hitler’s rise to power, and his later work more concerned with East Germany, re-unification and cultural democratization. He is the son of a German soldier and considered a critic of the Third Reich(see Shattered Past).

Felix Bernstein, was a German Jewish mathematician known for proving in 1896 the Schröder–Bernstein theorem, a central result in set theory, and less well known for demonstrating in 1924 the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus through statistical analysis.

Wolf Paul Barth was a German mathematician who discovered Barth surfaces and whose work on vector bundles has been important for the ADHM construction. Until 2011 Barth was working in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.