- Carl Friedrich Abel - German composer and fine player on the viola da gamba, pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Franz Abt - German composer
- Nicolaus von Amsdorf - German theologian and Protestant reformer
- Johann August Apel - German writer and jurist
- Armand Léon von Ardenne - German military writer and general, character in Effi Briest
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - eldest son and pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - German musician and composer, second son of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Christian Bach - composer of the Classical era, tenth son of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach - ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach - fourth son of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Karl Baedeker - German physicist
- Fritz Beblo - German city planner, architect and painter
- Christian Daniel Beck - German philologist, historian, theologian and antiquarian
- Oskar Becker - German philosopher, logician and mathematician
- Roderich Benedix - German dramatist and librettist
- Theodor Bergk - German philologist
- Otto Julius Bierbaum - German writer
- Georg Christoph Biller - German choral conductor
- Christian Ludwig Boxberg - German composer and organist
- Albert Brockhaus - German publisher and politician
- Eduard Brücklmeier - German diplomat and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
- Conrad Bursian - German philologist and archaeologist
- Johann Benedict Carpzov II - German Christian theologian and Hebraist
- Carl Gustav Carus - German physiologist and painter
- Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld - German painter
- Walter Cramer - German businessman and a member of the failed July 20 Plot
- Karl Wilhelm Dindorf - German classical scholar
- Max Dieckmann - German physicist
- Christoph von Dohnányi - German conductor
- Klaus von Dohnanyi - German politician
- Axel Eggebrecht - German journalist and writer
- Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann - German botanist, physiologist and microbiologist
- Georg Fabricius - German poet, historian and archaeologist
- Johann Friedrich Fasch - German composer
- Paul Fleming - German poet
- Arnold Gehlen - an influential conservative German philosopher and sociologist
- Martin Rinckart - German clergyman and hymnist
- Paul Fleming - German poet
- Reinhard Goerdeler - German accountant and founder of KPMG
- Johann Gottlieb Görner - German composer and organist, pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach
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- Johann Christoph Graupner - German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music
- Andreas Gruentzig - German cardiologist
- Karl Heine - lawyer and a major entrepreneur and industrial pioneer
- Thomas Theodor Heine - German painter and illustrator
- Johann David Heinichen - German Baroque composer and music theorist, Kapellmeister to the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Court in Dresden
- Karl Heinrich Heydenreich - German philosopher and poet
- Rudolf Hildebrand - Germanist
- Karl von Hochmuth - Russian General
- Otto Hoetzsch - German academic and politician
- Reinhard Keiser - popular German opera composer, one time Kapellmeister of the Hamburg Opera and successor to Johann Mattheson as Cantor (church) of Hamburg Cathedral
- Johann Friedrich Kind - German dramatist
- Johann Ludwig Krebs - Rococo and Classical period musician and composer, pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach and son of Johann Tobias Krebs, another Bach pupil (during his tenure at Weimar)
- Sebastian Krumbiegel - German singer and musician
- Victor Lange - German-born US-American Germanist at Princeton University
- Gottfried Leibniz - German mathematician and philosopher
- Justus Hermann Lipsius - German classical scholar
- Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer - German mathematician
- Erhard Mauersberger - German choral conductor, 14th Cantor of the Thomaskirche zu Leipzig after Johann Sebastian Bach, brother of Rudolf Mauersberger (the composer, conductor, and Cantor of the Kreuzkirche Dresden)
- Felix Moscheles - English painter, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto
- Paul Julius Möbius - German neurologist
- Georg Österreich - German Baroque composer
- Carl Adam Petri - German mathematician and computer scientist
- Eduard Friedrich Poeppig - German botanist, zoologist and explorer
- Nikolaus Pevsner - German-born British scholar of history of art at Cambridge and Oxford University
- Johann Georg Pisendel - German Baroque musician, violinist and composer
- Die Prinzen - German music group
- Günther Ramin - influential German organist, conductor, composer, pedagogue, and 12th Thomaskantor after Bach
- Carl Gottlieb Reissiger - German Kapellmeister and composer
- Martin Rinkart - German clergyman and hymnist
- Johann Theodor Roemhildt - German Baroque composer
- Johann Rosenmüller - German Baroque composer
- Friedrich Ruge - Vice Admiral of the German Navy
- Ernest Sauter - German composer
- Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber - German physician and university teacher
- Johann Andreas Schubert - German general engineer and designer
- Johann Gottfried Stallbaum - German classical scholar
- Karl Wilhelm Valentiner - German astronomer
- Eduard Vogel - German explorer in Central Africa
- Richard Wagner - German composer, conductor, music theorist and essayist
- Jörg-Peter Weigle - German professor of choir direction
- Friedrich Wieck - German piano and voice teacher, teacher of Robert Schumann, and father of Clara Schumann
- Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau - German Baroque musician and composer, teacher of George Frideric Handel
- Carl Friedrich Zöllner - German composer and choir director
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