List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Arnulf Martin Baring was a German lawyer, journalist, political scientist, contemporary historian and author. He was a member of the German-British Baring family of bankers.

John O. "Jack" Koehler was a German-born American journalist and executive for the Associated Press, who also briefly served as the White House Communications Director in 1987 during the Reagan administration.

Francesco Friedrich is a German bobsledder who has been active since 2006. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, he and brakeman Thorsten Margis tied with Canada's Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz for the gold medal in the two-man competition. Friedrich also won gold outright in the four-man event alongside Margis, Candy Bauer and Martin Grothkopp, making Friedrich the fifth German pilot to win two-man and four-man golds at the same Games, after Andreas Ostler in 1952, Meinhard Nehmer in 1976, Wolfgang Hoppe in 1984 and André Lange in 2006. Friedrich previously competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the doubles and fours and finished in eighth and tenth place, respectively.

Günter Schubert was a German actor and voice actor. His son Alexander Schubert is also an actor. He was born in Weißwasser and died in Berlin.

Jörg Stübner was a German footballer who amassed 47 international caps for East Germany.

Oliver Mintzlaff is a German football official, Red Bull GmbH Global Head of Soccer, and a former long-distance runner.

Lorenz Caffier is a former chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Jürgen Croy is a former international football goalkeeper for the German Democratic Republic.

Axel Tischer, better known by his ring name Alexander Wolfe, is a German professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT UK brand as a member of the Imperium stable.

Martin Karl Hellinger was a German Nazi dentist who in 1943 was assigned to work at the concentration camp for women at Ravensbrück, with the duty of removing dental gold from those killed at the camp.