List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Frank Hoffmann is a German-Austrian actor. He trained at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich.

Philipp Pentke is a German footballer who plays for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Jens Steinigen is a former East German and German biathlete.

Christine Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer was a German actress and the first wife of composer Richard Wagner, to whom she was married for 30 years, although for the last 10 years they often lived apart. At an early age, she had an illegitimate daughter with a Royal Saxon Army officer, whom she raised as her own sister. After a stormy courtship, which involved infidelities on both sides, she married Richard Wagner in 1836.

Henri Junghänel is a German shooter. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event.

Christian Reitz is a German 25 metre rapid fire pistol shooter, the current world record holder.

Rolf Kauka was a comic artist, most famous for the series Fix and Foxi.

Markus Schubert is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for German club Eintracht Frankfurt, on loan from Schalke 04.

Jürgen Walter is a German popular singer and composer.

Robert Siodmak was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as The Killers (1946).