List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Jens Weißflog is a German former ski jumper. He is one of the best and most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport. Only Finns Matti Nykänen and Janne Ahonen, Poles Adam Małysz and Kamil Stoch and Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer have won more World Cup victories.

Denise Herrmann is a German cross-country skier and biathlete. She has competed in FIS Cross-Country World Cup since 2009. Herrmann has won several medals at the World Cup events. In April 2016 she announced that she would switch to competing in biathlon for the following season although in an interview in November of that year she did not rule out competing in cross-country skiing in future.

Frank Schöbel is a German musician. He was one of the most successful pop singers in socialist East Germany (GDR) and remained so after German reunification.

Rolf Becker is a German television actor and political activist. By his first wife, actress Monika Hansen, he is the father of actor Ben Becker, and actress and singer Meret Becker.

André Hennicke is a German actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1984.

Carl Ludwig "Luz" Long was a German Olympic long-jumper, notable for winning the silver medal in the event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and for giving technical advice to his competitor, Jesse Owens, who went on to win the gold medal for the long jump. Luz Long won the German long jump championship six times in 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939.

Katja Kipping is a German socialist politician of The Left and member of the Bundestag representing Saxony. She has been co-chairperson of The Left since 2012, alongside Bernd Riexinger.

René Adler is a retired German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Christina of Saxony, was queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as the wife of King John.

Wolfgang Winkler was a German actor, born in Görlitz. He was best known for starring in films such as The Rabbit Is Me, Das Mädchen auf dem Brett and I Was Nineteen, as well as playing Hauptkommissar Herbert Schneider in the television series Polizeiruf 110.