List of Famous people born in Thuringia, Germany

Herrmann Julius Meyer was a German publisher born in Gotha. He was the son of publisher Joseph Meyer (1796-1856).

The Erfurt massacre was a school shooting that occurred on 26 April 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium, a secondary school, in the Thuringia State capital Erfurt, Germany. 19-year-old expelled student Robert Steinhäuser shot and killed 16 people, including 13 staff members, two students, and one police officer, before committing suicide. One person was also wounded by a bullet fragment. According to students, he ignored them and aimed only for the teachers and administrators, although two students were unintentionally killed by shots fired through a locked door.

Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer was a German historian. He was the father of mineralogist Otto Erdmannsdörffer.

Hans-Peter von Kirchbach is a retired German general and former Chief of Staff of the Federal Armed Forces from 1999 to 2000.

Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler, is a German-Canadian architect. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe, West Germany.

Wolfgang Siegfried Haack was a German mathematician and aerodynamicist. He in 1941 and William Sears in 1947 independently discovered the Sears–Haack body.