List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Maria Margaretha Kirch was a German astronomer. She was one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writing on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively.

Axel Rauschenbach is a German pair skater who competed for Germany and, before its reunification, East Germany. With Mandy Wötzel, he is the 1989 European silver medalist, the 1989 & 1990 East German national champion, and 1991 German national champion.

Christian Gottlob Heyne was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History.

Nina Grunenberg was a German author and prize-winning journalist. Beginning her career in West Germany at a time when political journalism was largely a male preserve, she wrote carefully researched reports on life in that country, and its political, social and economic topics, and focusing frequently on science or education She wrote about leaders in industry, unions and politics.