List of Famous people born in Thuringia, Germany

Werner Schroeter was a German film director, screenwriter, and opera director known for his stylistic excess. Schroeter was cited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an influence both on his own work and on German cinema at large.

Lydia Poser was a German politician of the KPD and SED and widow of the executed Communist official Magnus Poser.

Rudolf Schöll was a German classical scholar. He specialized in the fields of Greek and Roman legal history, classical archaeology and Greek epigraphy.

Otto Ciliax was a German naval officer who served in the navies of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. As an admiral during World War II, he commanded the German battleships. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

René Enders is a German track cyclist. He won two bronze Olympic medals with the German team in the team sprint: in 2008 and in 2012. He competed for Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics as a member of the men's sprint team. They finished in 5th place.

Alexander Lang is a German actor and stage director.

Hans-Georg Aschenbach is an East German former ski jumper.

Augustus Heinrich Petermann was a German cartographer.