List of Famous people born in Saarland, Germany

Ursula Kraus was a German politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Between 1984 until 1996, Kraus was Mayor of Wuppertal.

Siegfried Gasser was an Austrian politician. A member of the Austrian People's Party, he served as governor of Vorarlberg from 1984 to 1990. He died on 2 May 2022 at the age of 80.

Joseph Wendel was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1952 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.

Gunter Thielen was chairman and chief executive officer of the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

Wolfgang Wahlster is a German Artificial Intelligence researcher. He was CEO and Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and full professor of computer science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken. Wahlster remains Chief Executive Advisor of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. In May 2019, he was honored by the Gesellschaft für Informatik as one of 10 most important heads of German Artificial Intelligence history.