List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Richard "Richi" Freitag is a German ski jumper.

Claudia Nystad is a German top-level woman cross-country skier. She was born in Zschopau, East Germany, and represents the sports club WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal. Besides her civilian sports career, she serves as a sports soldier with the German Federal Armed Forces.

Jaki Liebezeit was a German drummer, best known as a founding member of experimental rock band Can. He was called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral".

Sören Pellmann is a German politician. Born in Leipzig, Saxony, he represents The Left. Pellmann has served as a member of the Bundestag from Leipzig II in the state of Saxony since 2017.

Rainer Makatsch is a German ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Jens Jeremies is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Babett Peter is a German footballer. She plays as a defender for Real Madrid CF.

Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was a German senior government official who served as Minister of Finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto Chancellor of Germany in May 1945.

Leonardo Jesus Loureiro Bittencourt is a German professional footballer who plays for Werder Bremen as a midfielder.

Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist politician and theorist, originally of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and later a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, which split from the SPD after World War I. He is best known for his opposition to the war in the Reichstag and his role in the Spartacist uprising of January 1919. The uprising was crushed by the SPD government and the Freikorps, which summarily executed Liebknecht and Luxemburg.