List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Lina Franziska Fehrmann was an artist model generally called Fränzi and associated with Die Brücke. Her role in their work has occasionally been deemed unsettling.

Steffen Heitmann is a German Protestant theologian, church jurist and former politician. From 1990 to 2000 he was Minister of Justice of Saxony, and was a member of the Saxon Landtag from 1994 to 2009. From 1991 until his retirement in 2015 he was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).

Emil Max Hödel was a plumber from Leipzig, Germany and a propaganda of the deed anarchist, who became known for a failed assassination. A former member of the Leipzig Social-Democratic Association, he was expelled from the organization in the 1870s and eventually became involved in anarchism.

Gerhard Schürer was a leading politician in East Germany.

Alexander König is a German figure skating coach and former competitor. Competing in pairs with Peggy Schwarz, he became the 1988 European bronze medalist and placed seventh at three Winter Olympics. As a single skater, he is the 1982 World Junior bronze medalist.

Horst-Gregorio Canellas was a German entrepreneur and football official. Canellas is best known for his role in breaking the 1971 Bundesliga scandal. He was also a hostage on the hijacked German Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977.

René Herms was a German middle distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres.

John Frederick I, called the Magnanimous, was Elector of Saxony (1532-1547) and head of the Schmalkaldic League.

Heinz Melkus was an East-German race car driver and constructor of sport cars.

Helmut Flieg or Hellmuth Fliegel was a German writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States between 1935 and 1952, before moving back to the part of his native Germany which was, from 1949 to 1990, the German Democratic Republic. He published works in English and German at home and abroad, and despite longstanding criticism of the GDR remained a committed socialist.