List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Kristina Dörfer, also known by the stage name KR!S or Kris, is a German singer and television actress.

Benno Wolf was a German judge and a pioneer speleologist. He was a co-founder of the German Society for Mammalogy and has been considered one of the founders of conservation in Prussia. He did the essential preparatory work for the German Reichnaturschutzgesetz (RNG) of 26 June 1935 that for the first time in Germany regulated the official issues of nature conservation, defined protection zones and introduced the concept of landscape protection area. The Nazi government arrested him for having Jewish ancestry and he died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

René Pape is a German operatic bass.

Augustus II the Strong was Elector of Saxony from 1694, Imperial Vicar and elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in the years 1697–1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.

Peter Schneider is a German actor and musician.

Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic in East Germany. As the First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he was the chief decision maker in East Germany. From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960 on, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973.

Melanie Lubbe, née Ohme, is a German chess player who holds the title of Woman grandmaster.

Lutz Bachmann is the founder of the Pegida movement, a far-right German political organisation linked to the anti-Muslim counter-jihad ideology.

Augustus III was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 where he was known as Frederick Augustus II.

John Peter Gilmore, known as Peter Gilmore, was an English actor, known for his portrayal of Captain James Onedin in 91 episodes of the BBC television period drama The Onedin Line (1971–1980), created by Cyril Abraham.