List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Robert Cauer the Elder was a German sculptor; known for his funerary art.

Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister was a German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel." He was largely self-taught.

Ernst Friedrich Germar was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. He monographed the heteropteran family Scutelleridae.

Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was a German-American Lutheran minister. He was the first President of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and its most influential theologian. He is commemorated by that church on its Calendar of Saints on May 7. He has been described as a man who sacrificed his homeland, his health, and nearly his life for the freedom to speak freely, to believe freely, and to live freely, by emigrating from Germany to the United States.

Alfred Rehder was a German-American botanical taxonomist and dendrologist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. He is generally regarded as the foremost dendrologist of his generation.

Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch was a German chemist.

Johann Vierdanck was a German violinist, cornettist, and composer of the Baroque period.

Christian Theodor Weinlig was a German music teacher, composer, and choir conductor in Dresden and Leipzig.