List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Max Ernst August Bodenstein was a German physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb.

Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, who chose to be known as Horst P. Horst, was a German-American fashion photographer.

Friedrich Bachmann was a German mathematician who specialised in geometry and group theory.

Kurt Schütte was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. He was the doctoral advisor of 16 students, including Wolfgang Bibel, Wolfgang Maaß, Wolfram Pohlers, and Martin Wirsing.

Jürgen Röber is a German football manager and former player.

Bruno Hildebrand was a German economist representing the "older" historical school of economics. His economic thinking was highly critical of classical economists, especially of David Ricardo. His magnum opus was Economics of the Present and the Future (1848). The basic aim of this work was to establish laws of economic development. Hildebrand also stated that economic development was linear not cyclical. He supported socialist theory on the basis of religion, basic morals, and his beliefs of the negative effect of property on economic behavior.

Hermann Otto Theodor Paul was a German philologist, linguist and lexicographer.

Heymann or Hermann Steinthal was a German philologist and philosopher.