List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Silvia Dimitrov is a German former pair skater. She began competing internationally with Rico Rex in 1993. The pair placed sixth at the 1995 World Junior Championships in Budapest, eighth at the 1996 European Championships in Sofia, and 13th at the 1997 World Championships in Lausanne. Monika Scheibe coached the pair in Chemnitz. Dimitrov retired from competition due to injuries.

Franz Hartwig is a German actor.

Katja Meier is a German politician who is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens. She was a member of the Landtag of Saxony 2015-2020 and has been serving as Saxon State Minister of Justice and for Democracy, European Affairs and Equality since 20 December 2019.

Lisa Tetzner was a German-born Swiss children's book writer known for her work with fairy-tales. In 1924 she married Kurt Held, a Jewish Communist. They fled to Switzerland in 1933 to escape the Nazis and in 1948 became Swiss citizens. Her book, Die schwarzen Brüder was published in 1941. The Swiss censored her work fearing it may antagonise the wartime German government. Later her "socialist fairy-tales" became popular in East Germany. One of her best-known works is The Children From No. 67 series written as a collaboration with her husband. In the US Hans Sees The World was popular. It was a translation from her original German, published in 1934 by Covici-Friede.