List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Walter Andreas Schwarz was a German singer, songwriter, novelist, Kabarettist, author of radio dramas and translator.

Friedrich August von Quenstedt, was a German geologist and palaeontologist.

Kurt Diebner was a German nuclear physicist who is well known for directing and administrating the German nuclear energy project, a secretive program aiming to build nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany during the course of World War II. Diebner was the administrative director of the German nuclear program after Adolf Hitler, Führer and Reich Chancellor, authorized this program.

Leonhard Kaupisch was a German general during World War II who served as Supreme Military Commander of occupied Denmark.

Gottfried Michael Koenig is a contemporary German-Dutch composer.

Friedrich Meinecke was a German historian, with national liberal and anti-semitic views, who supported the Nazi invasion of Poland. After World War II, as a representative of an older tradition, he criticized the Nazi regime, but continued to express anti-semitic prejudice.

Hans Falkenhagen was a German physicist and electrochemist best known for eponymous Debye–Falkenhagen effect.

Albrecht Schröter is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Jena from 2006 to 2018.