List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.

Emil Ritterling was a German historian and archaeologist.

Heinrich Khunrath, or Dr. Henricus Khunrath as he was also called, was a German physician, hermetic philosopher, and alchemist. Frances Yates considered him to be a link between the philosophy of John Dee and Rosicrucianism. His name, in the spelling "Henricus Künraht" was used as a pseudonym for the 1670 publisher of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus of Baruch Spinoza.

Hanni Weisse was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in 146 films between 1912 and 1942.

Karl von Miltitz was a papal nuncio and a Mainz Cathedral canon.

Johann Kuhnau was a German polymath, known primarily as composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his official post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which he occupied for 21 years. Much of his music, including operas, masses, and other large-scale vocal works, is lost. His reputation today rests on his Biblical Sonatas, a set of programmatic keyboard sonatas published in 1700, in which each sonata depicted in detail a particular story from the Bible. After his death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Hans Freyer was a German conservative revolutionary sociologist and philosopher.

Moritz Alphons Stübel was a German geologist and naturalist.

August Freyer was a Polish musician and composer, specializing in both performance and composition on the organ.

Alfred Peter Abel was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis.