List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Wilhelm Knabe was a German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant and politician, remembered as a founding member of the Green Party in Germany, and a pioneer of conservation of the environment who shaped the party for decades.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible, dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus, after the St. Catherine's Monastery at Mt. Sinai, where Tischendorf discovered it. Tischendorf was made an Honorary Doctor by Oxford University on 16 March 1865, and an Honorary Doctor by Cambridge University on 9 March 1865 following this find of the century. While a student gaining his academic degree in the 1840s, he earned international recognition when he deciphered the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the New Testament.

Matthias Freihof is a German television actor and director. He has performed in many TV films and series including police drama Siska for 5 years. but also works on live stage performing as an actor and a singer. He is most known former the GDR-film 'Coming Out' in 1989. He and the film won prizes in several festivals as best actor and best film as well as 'The Silver Bear' in the Berlin Film Festival 1990.

Friederun Köhnen is a semi-retired television-chef and food-entrepreneuse, originally from Saxony, but based in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Hagen von Ortloff is a German TV presenter.

Gerhard Zwerenz was a German writer and politician. From 1994 until 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).

Egon Günther was a German film director and writer.

Barbara Köhler was a German poet and translator.

Helga Göring (1922–2010) was a German stage, television and film actress.

Friedrich Weichelt was a leading German explosives engineer. He came to wider prominence on account of his training work and on account of various practical publications that he produced. After the end of the Second World War he began a long association with the newly established Dresden Explosives Academy, where he taught till his death in 1961.