List of Famous people born in Thuringia, Germany

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own.

Jakob Adlung, or Adelung, was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, composer and music theorist.

Johann Ludwig Krebs was a German Baroque musician and composer for the pipe organ, harpsichord, other instruments and orchestras. His output also included chamber music, choral works and concertos.

Karl Friedrich von Auwers was a German chemist, and was the academic adviser of both Karl Ziegler and Georg Wittig at the University of Marburg.

Ernst Christian Hesse was a German gambist and composer.

Matthias Weckmann (Weckman) was a German musician and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Niederdorla (Thuringia) and died in Hamburg.

Hermann von Salza was the fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1210 to 1239. A skilled diplomat with ties to the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope, Hermann oversaw the expansion of the military order into Prussia.

Johann Alexander Thiele was a German painter and engraver.

Karl Brendel is the pseudonym of Karl Genzel, a schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill. He was the only sculptor profiled in Prinzhorn's work, and the work also includes more illustrations of his work than that of any other profiled artist.