List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Kati Winkler is a German former competitive ice dancer. With partner René Lohse, she is the 2004 World bronze medalist and a six-time German national champion. They competed at two Winter Olympics, in 1998 and 2002.

Jens Fiedler is a German triple Olympic champion and multiple world champion track cyclist. He retired from competitive cycling in early 2005.

Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer was a German writer, translator, playwright and musicologist.

Dieter Wiedemann is a German racing cyclist. He rode in the 1967 Tour de France.

Rico Rex is a German former pair skater. With former partner Eva-Maria Fitze, he is the 2003 German national champion.

Julius Gotthelf Kühn was a German academic and agronomist and he is one of the founders of Plant Pathology. Kuhn's father was a land owner and he gained experience in agriculture and botany on his father's land. He was trained in Bonn, starting at age 30 and was awarded his doctorate, which focused on diseases of beet and canola at Leipzig. In 1862, he became a professor of agriculture at the University of Halle. Kuhn published more than 70 papers on mycology and plant pathology over the course of his career.