List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany
Friedrich der Kleine
Petra Thümer
Petra Thümer is a former swimmer from East Germany. She won gold medals in the 400 m and 800 m freestyle at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1977 European Aquatics Championships. During her career she set five world records in the 400 m and 800 m freestyle. In 1987 she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Richard Bruno Heydrich
Richard Bruno Heydrich was a German opera singer (tenor), and composer. He was the father of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, an architect of the Final Solution, and Heinz and Maria Heydrich.
Wolfgang Luderer
Karl Mickel
Karl Mickel was a German writer.
Thomas W. Gaehtgens
Thomas W. Gaehtgens is a German art historian with special interest in French and German art and art history from the 18th to the 20th century. He was the founding director of the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris and was director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California.
Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann
Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, also known as Karl Friedrich Naumann, was a German mineralogist and geologist. The crater Naumann on the Moon is named after him.
Yosef Burg
Shlomo Yosef Burg was a German-born Israeli politician. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset, and served in many ministerial positions for the next 40 years. He was one of the founders of the National Religious Party.
Gerhard Bonnier
Ingeburg Lange
Ingeburg "Inge" Lange was an East German politician.