List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Martin Wolfram is a German diver. He represented Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the time he competed in the Olympics, his height was 5'5" and his weight was 123 lbs (56 kg). Martin injured his arm whilst diving in the 10m platform competition. He finished 4th in the preliminary rounds with 496.80, 5th in the semi-finals with 519.00 and 8th in the finals 506.65. He was flown back to Germany after his injury.

Sophia Eleonore of Saxony was a duchess of Saxony by birth and the landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1627 to 1661 through her marriage to Landgrave George II. She was the eldest surviving child of John George I, Elector of Saxony, and Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia.

Alexander Gerd Krauß is a German politician. Since 2017, he has been a member of the German Bundestag. From 2004 until 2017 he was a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony.

Ernest was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486.

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler was a German poet and writer. She is best known for the texts of nine cantatas, which Johann Sebastian Bach composed after Easter of 1725.

Prince Karl Christian Joseph of Saxony - in English, Charles of Saxony - was a German prince of the House of Wettin and Duke of Courland and Semigallia. Born in Dresden, he was the fifth son of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, and Maria Josepha of Austria. He is an ancestor of the Italian House of Savoy.

Friedrich Oskar Ruge was an officer in the German Navy and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. He served as the first commander of the post-war German Navy.

Ottomar von Mayenburg was a German pharmacist. He invented the Clorodont toothpaste for the German market.

Sibylle of Saxony was a Saxon princess of the Albertine line of House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Prince Maximilian of Saxony was a German prince and a member of the House of Wettin. He was the sixth but third and youngest surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and the composer Duchess Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria.