Editing Leipzig (section)

=== Writing and arts ===
[[File:Johann Sebastian Bach.jpg|thumb|140px|Johann Sebastian Bach]]
[[File:Andreas Staub - Clara Schumann (Pastell 1838).png|140px|thumb|upright|Clara Schumann, 1838]]
[[File:Riccardo Chailly (1986).jpg|thumb|140px|Riccardo Chailly, 1986]]
*[[Johann Albert Fabricius]] (1668–1736), classical scholar and bibliographer<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Fabricius, Johann Albert |volume= 10 | page = 119 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Johann Sebastian Bach]] (1685–1750), composer<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bach, Johann Sebastian |volume= 3 |last= Tovey |first= Donald Francis |author-link= Donald Francis Tovey | pages = 124–130 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Johann Gottfried Donati]] (1706–1782), composer
*[[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] (1714–1788), Classical period musician and composer<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bach, Karl Philipp Emanuel |volume= 3 |last= Hadow |first= William Henry |author-link= William Henry Hadow | pages = 130–131 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Johann Christian Bach]] (1735–1782), composer, youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach 
*[[Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus]] (1772–1823), publisher. He originated the Brockhaus encyclopedia.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Brockhaus, Friedrich Arnold |volume= 4 | page = 624 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann]] (1772–1848), classical scholar and philologist<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Hermann, Johann Gottfried Jakob |volume= 13 | page = 367 |short= 1}}</ref> 
*[[Karl Wilhelm Dindorf]] (1802–1883), classical scholar<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm |volume= 8 | page = 275 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Felix Mendelssohn]] (1809–1847), composer, pianist, organist and conductor<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jakob Ludwig Felix |volume= 18 |last1= Rockstro |first1=  William Smyth |author1-link=William Smyth Rockstro|last2= Tovey |first2= Donald Francis |author2-link= Donald Francis Tovey  | page = 123 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Robert Schumann]] (1810–1856), composer and music critic<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Schumann, Robert Alexander |volume= 24 | pages = 383–385 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Thekla Friedländer]] (born 1849), soprano and social reformer<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ganzl |first=Kurt |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Victorian_Vocalists.html?id=gmZQDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y |title=Victorian Vocalists |date=2017-09-29 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-59366-3 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Roderich Benedix]] (1811–1873), dramatist and librettist<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Benedix, Julius Roderich |volume= 3 | page = 725 |short= 1}}</ref> 
*[[Theodor Bergk]] (1812–1881), philologist, an authority on classical Greek poetry<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bergk, Theodor |volume= 3 | pages = 773–774 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Richard Wagner]] (1813–1883), composer, theatre director and conductor<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Wagner, Wilhelm Richard |volume= 28 |last1= Rockstro |first1=  William Smyth |author1-link=William Smyth Rockstro|last2= Tovey |first2= Donald Francis |author2-link= Donald Francis Tovey  | pages = 236–243 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Clara Schumann]] (1819–1896), pianist and composer<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Schumann, Robert Alexander |volume= 24 | pages = 383–385; see page 385 |quote= ...Clara Schumann (1819–1896).....had a brilliant career as a pianist... |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Carl Johann Lasch]] (1822–1888), painter
*[[Carl Reinecke]] (1824–1910), composer, conductor and pianist<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Reinecke, Carl Heinrich Carsten |volume= 23 | page = 55 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Emma Kirchner]] (1830–1909) early German woman photographer who lived and worked in the [[Netherlands]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Depth of Field {{!}} Scherptediepte |url=https://depthoffield.universiteitleiden.nl/2035f06nl/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=depthoffield.universiteitleiden.nl |archive-date=10 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210101503/https://depthoffield.universiteitleiden.nl/2035f06nl/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Arthur Prüfer]] (1860–1944), musicologist
*[[Max Beckmann]] (1884–1950), expressionist painter, professor at art academies and schools
*[[Wilhelm Backhaus]] (1884–1969), pianist
*[[Karl Alfred Pabst]] (1884–1971), painter, graphic artist and lithographer
*[[Hanns Eisler]] (1898–1962), composer of the national anthem of [[East Germany|the GDR]]
*[[Bruno Apitz]] (1900–1979), writer
*[[Wolfgang Weber (journalist)|Wolfgang Weber]] (1902–1985), photojournalist
*[[Hans Mayer]] (1907–2001), literary scholar
*[[Kurt Masur]] (1927–2015), conductor of the [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]]
*[[Herbert Blomstedt]] (born 1927), conductor of the [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]]
*[[Werner Tübke]] (1929–2004), painter
*[[Hans-Joachim Schulze]] (born 1934), Bach scholar
*[[Riccardo Chailly]] (born 1953), conductor of the [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]]
*[[Neo Rauch]] (born 1960), painter
*[[Till Lindemann]] (born 1963), vocalist, lead singer of [[Rammstein]]
*[[Simone Thomalla]] (born 1965), actress
*[[Matthias Weischer]] (born 1973), painter
*[[Oskar Lenz]] (1848–1925), explorer and travel writer
*[[Hans Meyer (geologist)|Hans Meyer]] (1858–1929), geographer, Africanist and mountaineer
*[[Martin Broszat]] (1926–1989), historian, head of [[Institut für Zeitgeschichte]] in Munich
*[[Ruth Pfau]] (1929–2017), nun, physician and writer
*[[Christian Gottfried Körner]] (1756–1831), jurist and writer
*[[Sebastian Krumbiegel]] (1966–), singer and musician
*[[Tobias Künzel]] (1964–), singer and musician
*[[Bill Kaulitz]] (1989-), singer, songwriter, and musician
*[[Tom Kaulitz]] (1989-), guitarist and musician