List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Johann Friedrich Rochlitz was a German playwright, musicologist and art and music critic. His most notable work is his autobiographical account Tage der Gefahr about the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 — in Kunst und Altertum, Goethe called it "one of the most wondrous productions ever to have been written". A Friedrich-Rochlitz-Preis for art criticism is named after him — it is awarded by the Leipzig Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kritik and was presented for the fourth time in 2009.

Friedrich Ladegast was a famous German organ builder.

Johann Abraham Ihle was a German amateur astronomer who discovered the first known globular cluster, M22, on 26 August 1665 while observing Saturn in Sagittarius.

Johann Klemm or Klemme was a German Baroque organist and composer.

Friedrich Klingner was a German Classical Philologist. He worked at increasingly senior levels as a university professor, successively at the universities of Hamburg (1925–1930), Leipzig (1930–1947) and Munich (1947–1963). Viewed by admirers as one of the leading latinists of his generation, he advanced the study of Latin literature, producing important studies of Sallust, Virgil, Horace and Tibullus which continue to engage scholars.

Christian Frederick Boerner, professor of theology at Leipzig. Boerner was born in Dresden, and lived most of his life in Leipzig. Boerner had two sons, Christian Frederic, and Frederic, who were both physicians.

Karl Hannemann was a German film actor.

Martin Krause was a German concert pianist, piano teacher, music critic, and writer.

Lene Voigt was a German writer and poet. Although some of her earlier work employed standard "Hochdeutsch" German, she is better remembered today for her poetry and prose texts written in the Saxon dialect.

Traute Carlsen (1882–1968) was a German stage and film actress. Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the Jewish Carlsen left Germany for Switzerland where she settled permanently.