Editing Magdeburg (section)

== People ==
===A–K===
[[File:Otto-von-Guericke-TS.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Otto von Guericke]]]]
[[File:Telemann.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Georg Philipp Telemann]]]]
*[[Ernst Anders]] (1845–1911), portrait and genre painter
*[[Richard Assmann]] (1845–1918), meteorologist
*[[Theodor Avé-Lallemant]] (1806–1890), music critic and writer on music
*[[Alfons Bach]], (1904–1999), industrial designer<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |last=Pace |first=Eric |title=Alfons Bach, 95, Designer of Tubular Furniture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/23/arts/alfons-bach-95-designer-of-tubular-furniture.html |work=Arts |date=23 August 1999 |access-date=1 October 2012}}</ref>
*[[Kurt Behrens]] (1884–1928), springboard diver
*[[Arno Bieberstein]] (1884–1918), swimmer
*[[Jessica Böhrs]] (born 1980), actress and singer
*[[Henry Busse]] (1894–1955), trumpeter and bandleader, emigrated to the US at 18
*[[Adelbert Delbrück]] (1822–1890), banker and lawyer
* [[Margarethe Düren]] (1904–1988), German operatic soprano
*[[Friedrich Ernst Fesca]] (1789–1826), violinist and composer
*[[Hans Gericke]] (1912–2014), architect
*[[Frank Giering]] (1971–2010), actor
*[[Harry Giese]] (1903–1991), actor and spokesman in Nazi newsreels
*[[Georg Gradnauer]] (1866–1946), newspaper editor and politician
*[[Alfred Grünberg]] (1901–1942), worker, KPD member and resistance fighter against Nazism
*[[Otto von Guericke]] (1602–1686), mayor and inventor of the [[Magdeburg hemispheres]]. The [[Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg]] is named after him
*[[Carl Gustav Friedrich Hasselbach]] (1809–1882), mayor and member of the Prussian House of Lords; a square in the centre of Magdeburg is named after him
*[[Ulrike Helzel]], soprano
*[[Gottlieb von Haeseler]] (1701–1752), entrepreneur in the Duchy of Magdeburg
*[[Ingolf Huhn]] (born 1955), theatre and opera manager
*[[Hartmann Wilhem Otto]] (1876–1960), immigrated to the US, where he changed his name to William Hartman and served as a Rough Rider in the Spanish–American War together with Theodore Roosevelt
*[[Christian Georg Kohlrausch]] (1851–1934), gymnastics teacher and re-discoverer of [[discus throw]]ing
*[[Anna-Maria Henckel von Donnersmarck]] (born 1940), political activist
*[[Carl Hindenburg]] (1820–1899), cycling official and first president of the German Cyclist Federation (DRB)
*[[Heinrich Jost]] (1889–1948), typeface designer
*[[Eberhard Jüngel]] (1934–2021), German Lutheran theologian
*[[Georg Kaiser]] (1878–1945), writer
*[[Nadine Kleinert]] (born 1975), retired shot putter, Olympic and World Championship silver medallist
*[[Wilhelm Kobelt]] (1865–1927), member of the Reichstag and local politician in Magdeburg
*[[Rolf Kohnert]] (born 1938), engineer, 3 times Australian masters cycling champion
*[[Stefan Kretzschmar]] (born 1973), handball player and Olympic medallist
*[[Hans Kühne]] (1880–1969), chemist on the board of I.G. Farben and defendant during the Nuremberg trials

===L–Z===
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F002352-0002, Bonn, Bundestag, Pariser Verträge, Ollenhauer.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Erich Ollenhauer]], [[Bundestag]] 1954]]
[[File:Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben]] 1782]]
*Ernst Lehmann (1908–1945), SPD politician, active in the resistance against Nazism
*Otto Lehmann (1900–1936), resistance fighter against Nazism
*[[Werner Marcks]] (1896–1967), lieutenant general in World War II
*[[Olaf Malolepski]] (born 1946), singer-songwriter
*[[Cläre Mjøen]] (1874–1963), German and Norwegian translator and women's rights activist
*[[Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern]] (1770–1852), philologist who coined the term [[Bildungsroman]]
*[[Felix von Niemeyer]] (1820–1871), physician, royal Württemberg personal physician
*[[Leo Nowak (bishop)|Leo Nowak]] (born 1929), Roman Catholic bishop of Magdeburg (1990–2004)
*[[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]] (born 1942), biologist, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995
*[[Oleh Kuznetsov]] (born 1963), Ukrainian football coach and former professional player
*[[Richard Ölze]] (1900–1980), painter
*[[Erich Ollenhauer]] (1901–1963), leader of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] 1952–1963
*[[Menahem Pressler]] (1923–2023), pianist
*[[Ernst Reuter]] (1889–1953), Mayor of Magdeburg 1931–1933, then Mayor of West Berlin in 1948–1953
*[[Willy Rosen]] (1894–1944) composer and songwriter
*[[Arthur Ruppin]] (1876–1943), Zionist thinker and leader
*[[Gustav Schäfer (drummer)|Gustav Schäfer]] (1988–), drummer and musician for [[Tokio Hotel]]
*[[Ekkehard Schall]] (1930–2005), actor and theatre director
*[[Marcel Schmelzer]] (born 1988), footballer
*Karl Schmidt (1902–1945), resistance fighter against Nazism
*[[Petra Schmidt-Schaller]] (born 1980), actress
*[[Manfred Schoof]] (born 1936), jazz trumpeter
*[[Wolfgang Schreyer]] (1927–2017), writer
*[[Margarete Schön]] (1895–1985), stage and film actress
*[[Ivan Shyshkin]] (born 1983), Ukrainian footballer
*[[Kurt Singer]] (1886–1962), philosopher
*[[Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben]] (1730–1794), American patriot
*[[Christoph Christian Sturm]] (1740–1786), preacher and author, wrote the majority of his devotional works here
*[[Bruno Taut]] (1880–1938), city architect 1921–1923, completed two housing projects in Magdeburg
*[[Georg Philipp Telemann]] (1681–1767), composer
*[[Klaus Thunemann]] (born 1937), bassoon professor
*[[Henning von Tresckow]] (1901–1944), major general in the ''Wehrmacht'', active in the military resistance
*[[Lothar von Trotha]] (1848–1920), military commander notorious for presiding over the [[Herero and Namaqua genocide|near-extermination of the Herero]] in [[German South-West Africa]]
*[[Karl Wallenda]] (1905–1978), highwire acrobat
*[[Camillo Walzel]] (1829–1895), [[libretto|librettist]] and theatre director
*[[Wilhelm Weitling]] (1808–1871), [[utopian Socialist|utopian Communist]]
*[[Dieter Zahn]] (born 1940), [[double-bassist]]
*[[Dejan Zavec]] (born 1976), Slovenian welterweight boxer, IBF Welterweight Champion
*[[Heinrich Zschokke]] (1771–1848), author and reformer
*[[George William Ziemann]] (1809–1881), Christian missionary who served in Magdeburg in the infantry