List of Famous people born in Thuringia, Germany

Carl Wilhelm Freund Walther was a German gunsmith from Zella-Mehlis, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who in 1886 founded the firm of Carl Walther GmbH, generally known as Walther.

Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch was a Brazilian linguist known for her work on text linguistics. She was a professor at the University of Campinas for almost three decades and an emerita researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Koch is considered "one of the most respected figures of Brazilian linguistics" and her works are viewed as fundamental to the development of text linguistics in Brazil. She was one of the founders of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies.

Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann was a German music theorist and composer.

Regina Josepha von Siebold, née Henning, was a German physician and obstetrician, born in Geismar. She was the first woman in Germany to receive a university degree.

Carl Maria Nicolaus Hummel was a German landscape painter and etcher.