List of Famous people born in Thuringia, Germany

Joseph Kürschner was a German author and editor most often cited for his critical edition of classics from German literature.

Johann Wilhelm Hässler, was a German composer, organist and pianist.

Johann Ernst Gerhard was a German Lutheran theologian. There are suggestions, however, that his greater scholarly passion lay in Oriental studies.

Johann August Ernesti was a German Rationalist theologian and philologist. Ernesti was the first who formally separated the hermeneutics of the Old Testament from those of the New.

Friedrich Traugott Kützing was a German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist.

Johann von Eych was a German Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Elias David Häusser was a German-Danish architect working in the Baroque and Rococo styles. He is most known for designing the first Christiansborg Palace which was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1794. Häusser is credited with introducing both those styles to Denmark.