List of Famous people born in Thuringia, Germany

Siegfried Reiprich is a German human rights activist and author. He was involved in the resistance against the communist regime of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which led to him being expelled from university and eventually banished from the GDR. In 2009, he was appointed by the Government of Saxony as the Director of the Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the Executive Board of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.

Toni Eggert is a German luger who has competed since 2008.

Doris Schade was a German television actress. She was born in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany.

Frederick I, called the Brave or the Bitten was Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia.

Prof. Dr. Johann Carl Fuhlrott was an early German paleoanthropologist. He is famous for recognizing the significance of the bones of Neanderthal 1, a Neanderthal specimen discovered by German laborers who were digging for limestone in Neander valley in August 1856. Originally disregarded, Fuhlrott, to his eternal credit, had the insight to recognize them for what they were: the remains of a previously unknown type of human.

Anja Siegesmund is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2014, she has served as Minister of the Environment in the state government of Thuringia. Since 2015, she has also been Second Deputy Minister-President of Thuringia. From 2009 to 2014 she was leader of the Greens parliamentary group in the Landtag of Thuringia. She was a member of the Landtag from 2009 to 2015, then again from 2019 to 2020.

Frederick Augustus II was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was the consort to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands; they were the parents of four children, including Beatrix, who was Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013.

Uwe Behrendt was a German right-wing terrorist. He is accused of killing two people and of torturing several other. He was also the deputy-leader of a militant right-wing organisation "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann".

Horst Queck is an East German former ski jumper who competed from 1966 to 1971.