List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Matthias Herget is a German former professional footballer who played as a sweeper.

Otto Georg Thierack was a German Nazi jurist and politician.

Prince Johann Georg Pius Karl Leopold Maria Januarius Anacletus of Saxony, Duke of Saxony was the sixth child and second-eldest son of George of Saxony and his wife Maria Anna of Portugal and a younger brother of the Kingdom of Saxony's last king, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Johann Georg was a well-known arts expert and an avid art collector.

Gerhard Palitzsch, was a German Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) of the SS. He was notorious for his brutal treatment of prisoners in Auschwitz concentration camp.

John Frederick II of Saxony, was Duke of Saxony (1554–1566).

Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony was the mother of Emperor Charles I of Austria and the fifth child of George of Saxony and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal.

Bernhard Krüger was a member of the NSDAP, SS Sturmbannführer (Major) during World War II, and leader of the Department VI F 4a, part of the SD-foreign branch in the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).

Max Hoelz was a German Communist, most known for his role as a 'Communist Bandit' in the Vogtland region.

Prince Albert Casimir of Saxony, Duke of Teschen was a Saxon prince from the House of Wettin who married into the Habsburg imperial family. He was noted as an art collector and founded the Albertina in Vienna, one of the largest and finest collections of old master prints and drawings in the world.

Amalia of Saxony was a princess of Saxony and by marriage Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut.