List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Maria Amalia of Saxony was Queen consort of Naples and Sicily from 1738 till 1759 and then Queen consort of Spain by marriage to Charles III of Spain, from 1759 until her death in 1760. The arranged marriage produced many children who survived into adulthood, including Charles IV of Spain. She was the daughter of Augustus III of Poland and his wife Maria Josepha.

Vera Oelschlegel has worked as a German singer, actress, artistic director, drama director and professor of drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was a celebrity in the German Democratic Republic before 1989. After that, from 1990 till 2013, she headed up the Theater des Ostens touring theatre company.

Erich Loest was a German writer born in Mittweida, Saxony. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Walldorf, Bernd Diksen and Waldemar Naß.

Margitta Scherr is a German film and television actress.

Katharina Schroth was a schoolteacher and rehabilitation specialist who helped develop the Schroth Method, a treatment for scoliosis. With the help of her daughter Christa Lehnert-Schroth, she developed a method to correct her moderate form of scoliosis using breathing techniques to inflate into the concave side of the body while looking in a mirror.

Alf Lüdtke was a historian and a leading German representative of the history of everyday life. He said his main fields of interest and research include work as a social practice, the connection of production and destruction through "work", forms of taking part and acquiescing in European dictatorships in the 20th century, and remembering and memorialising forms of dealing with war and genocide in the modern era.

John George I was Elector of Saxony from 1611 to 1656.

Joachim Kurt Kühn is a German jazz pianist.

Horst Böhme was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served in the SD, the intelligence service of the SS, and was a leading perpetrator of the Holocaust.

Helene Funke was a painter and graphic designer of modern times.