List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany
Cornelia Gröschel
Cornelia Gröschel is a German actress.
Stephan Grossmann
Stephan Grossmann is a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1992.
Jens Büchner
Jens "Malle-Jens" Büchner was a German schlager singer.
Stefanie Hertel
Stefanie Anke Hertel is a German singer of popular music, popular folk music, schlager music, television presenter, and former yodeler.
Ruth Pfau
Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau was a German–Pakistani Catholic nun of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, and a physician. She moved from Germany to Pakistan in 1961 and devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. Pfau was honoured with the Hilal-i-Pakistan-, Hilal-i-Imtiaz-, Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam-, and the Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam award.
Gudrun Ritter
Gudrun Ritter is a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films since 1959.
Carl Tanzler
Carl Tanzler, or sometimes Count Carl von Cosel, was a German-born radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos, that carried on well after the disease had caused her death. In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from its tomb, and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos' relatives and authorities in 1940.
Maria Reich
Maria Reiche was a German-born Peruvian mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator. She is known for her research into the Nazca Lines, which she first saw in 1941 together with American historian Paul Kosok. Known as the "Lady of the Lines", Reiche made the documentation, preservation and public dissemination of the Nazca Lines her life's work.
Marco Wanderwitz
Marco Wanderwitz, is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 2018, he has been serving as Parliamentary States Secretary in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Stefan Kretzschmar
Stefan Kretzschmar is a retired professional German handball player. The son of Peter Kretzschmar, a legendary handball player and coach in the former GDR and Waltraud Kretzschmar, a former handball player for the East German team and winner of Olympic team medals in silver (1976) and bronze (1980), he was a three-time Olympic athlete and winner of the Olympic silver medal with the German team in 2004. He is well known for his many tattoos and piercings. He ended his active career on 14 July 2007 and currently resides in Magdeburg, Germany, where he continues to hold a position with the local handball club, SC Magdeburg.