List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany
Carl Mendelssohn Bartoldy
Nadja Klier
Carl Ludwig Nietzsche
Carl Ludwig Nietzsche was a German Lutheran pastor and the father of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Heinz Angermeyer
Heinz Angermeyer (1909–1988) was a German film producer. Along with Kurt Hoffmann, he ran a production company Independent-Film.
Rissa
Kurt Sindermann
Ortrun Enderlein
Ortrun Zöphel-Enderlein is a former East German (GDR) luger, and one of the most successful lugers in the 1960s. Enderlein started her working career at the SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal, and was first introduced to luge in her home village of Raschau in the Ore Mountains. In the 1964 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, she became the first female luger to win gold at the Olympics. and won the World Cup in 1965 in Davos and 1967 in Hammarstrand. The athletic achievements of the lugers Thomas Köhler and Enderlein were celebrated and politicised in the GDR during the Cold War when the GDR was not recognised by West Germany, and athletic events in either part of Germany with athletes from both countries were not permitted because of the Hallstein Doctrine.
Renate Johne
Claudia Schmutzler
Richard Foerster
Richard Foerster was a German classical scholar.