List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Ernst Baier was a German figure skater who competed in pair skating and single skating. He became Olympic pair champion in 1936 together with Maxi Herber. The duo also won several World and European championships.

Karl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius was a German theologian, philologist and educator.

Hannelore Anke is a retired German swimmer who competed for East Germany in the 1970s.

Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach was a German botanist and ornithologist. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museum showcasing, the successful commission giving rise to the creation of the Blaschkas' Glass sea creatures and, subsequently and indirectly, the more famous Glass Flowers.

Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich is a retired East German speed skater. She was one of the world's best long-distance skaters in the 1980s.