List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Nikolaus Knüpfer was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Gottfried August Homilius was a German composer, cantor and organist. He is considered one of the most important church composers of the generation following Bach's, and was the main representative of the empfindsamer style.

Albert Hermann Dietrich, was a German composer and conductor, remembered less for his own achievements than for his friendship with Johannes Brahms.

Walter Steinbeck was a German film actor.

Johann Schelle was a German Baroque composer.

Johann Hermann Schein was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was born in Grünhain and died in Leipzig. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German music, and was one of the most polished composers of the period.

Carl Friedrich von Rumohr was a German art historian, writer, draughtsman and painter, agricultural historian, connoisseur of and writer about the culinary arts, art collector and patron of artists.

Friedrich August Krubsacius was a German architect, teacher, and architectural theoretician.