Editing Quedlinburg (section)

== Notable people ==
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[[File:Carl Ritter Litho.jpg|thumb|150px|Carl Ritter 1857]]
[[File:Julius Wolff Schriftsteller - von Wilhelm Rohr.jpg|thumb|150px|Julius Wolff]]
* [[Johann Gerhard]] (1582–1637), theologian, mean Denter representatives of Lutheran orthodoxy
* [[Andreas Werckmeister]] (1645–1706), German theorist, organist, organ examiner and composer
* [[Wilhelm Homberg]] (1652–1715), naturalist, born apparently during a trip in Batavia / Jakarta, but parents living in Quedlinburg
* [[Dorothea Erxleben]] (1715–1762), was the first female [[Physician|medical doctor]] in Germany<ref>Schiebinger, L. (1990): "The Anatomy of Difference: Race and Sex in Eighteenth-Century Science" p. 399, ''Eighteenth Century Studies'' 23(3) pp. 387–405</ref> 
* [[Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock]] (1724–1803), German poet and contemporary of [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
* [[Gottfried Christian Voigt]] (1740-1791), law clerk, antiquarian and influential writer about witchcraft
* [[Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben]] (1744–1777), naturalist
* [[Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths]] (1759–1839), father of German gymnastics
* [[Carl Ritter]] (1779–1859), founder of scientific [[geography]]
* [[Julius Wolff (writer)|Julius Wolff]] (1834–1910), Freeman, poet and writer
* [[Gustav Albert Schwalbe]] (1844–1916), anatomist and anthropologist
* [[Carl Schroeder (composer)|Carl Schroeder]] (1848–1935), cellist, composer, conductor and Hofkapellmeister
* [[Georg Ay]] (1900–1997), politician (NSDAP), member of Reichstag 1933–1945
* [[Fritz Grasshoff]] (1913–1997), poet, painter, pop lyricist
* [[Bernhard Schrader]] (1931–2012), chemist, pioneer of experimental [[Raman spectroscopy|Raman]] and [[infrared spectroscopy]]
* [[Peter Kramer (physicist)|Peter Kramer]] (born 1933), physicist
* [[Leander Haußmann]] (born 1959), film and theater director (e.g. "Sun Alley (film) Sonnenallee", "[[Herr Lehmann (film)|Herr Lehmann]]", "[[NVA (film)|NVA]]")
* [[Petrik Sander]] (born 1960), football coach
* [[Petra Schersing]] (born ''Muller'', 1965), sprinter and Olympic silver medalist
* [[Silvio Meier]] (1965–1992), activist killed by neo-Nazis
* [[Dagmar Hase]] (born 1969), swimmer and Olympic champion
* [[Apparat (musician)|Sascha Ring]] (born 1978), electronic musician known as ''Apparat''