List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Melchior von Meckau (1440–1509) was a German Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.

Rudolf Friedrichs was a German politician who served as the Minister-President of Saxony in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to his death.

Guido Seeber was a German cinematographer and pioneer of early cinema.

Franz Wilhelm Abt was a German composer and choral conductor. He composed roughly 3,000 individual works mostly in the area of vocal music. Several of his songs were at one time universally sung, and have obtained a more or less permanent place in the popular repertory. During his lifetime, Abt was a renowned choral conductor and he spent much of the last three decades of his life working as a guest conductor with choirs throughout Europe and in the United States.

Abraham Hinckelmann, a German Protestant theologian, was an Islamologist who was one of the first to print a complete Qur'an in Hamburg.

Bert Sprotte was a German actor. He appeared in 77 American films between 1918 and 1938. He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, and died in Los Angeles, California.