List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Falk Balzer is a former German hurdler best known for winning the silver medal at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. A son of former East German hurdler Karin Balzer he represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Franz Semper is a German handball player for SC DHfK Leipzig and the German national team.

Ohis Felix Uduokhai is a German footballer who plays as a defender for FC Augsburg.

Horst Sindermann was a Communist German politician and one of the leaders of East Germany.

Rainer Kirsch was a German writer and poet.

Stephan Tanneberger was a German oncologist and chemist who held leading positions in cancer research and therapy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), serving as director of the Zentralinstitut für Krebsforschung of the Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR from 1974 until 1990. He left Germany in 1991 to work in the field of palliative care for cancer patients in Italy as well as in various countries in the Third World. In 2005, he founded a Center for Peace Work in Anklam in northeast Germany.

Jürgen Fuchs was an East German writer and dissident.

Manfred Feiler was a German painter and illustrator.

Simone Ritscher is a German actress, known for her roles as Doris van Norden in Sturm der Liebe and as Maria di Balbi in Verbotene Liebe.

Hartmut Nickel was a German ice hockey player, who competed for SC Dynamo Berlin. He played for the East Germany national ice hockey team at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.