List of Famous people born in Saxony, Germany

Camillo Herbert Grötzsch was a German mathematician. He was born in Döbeln and died in Halle. Grötzsch worked in graph theory. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Grötzsch graph, a triangle-free graph that requires four colors in any graph coloring, and Grötzsch's theorem, the result that every triangle-free planar graph requires at most three colors. A student of Paul Koebe, he made important contributions to the theory of conformal mappings and univalent functions: he was the first to introduce the concept of a quasiconformal mapping.

Ulf Fink is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Ralph Kronig was a German physicist. He is noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of X-ray absorption spectroscopy. His theories include the Kronig–Penney model, the Coster–Kronig transition and the Kramers–Kronig relations.

Richard von Volkmann was a prominent German surgeon and author of poetry and fiction.

Helge Hansen is a retired general who served in the German Army within the Bundeswehr. From 1992 to 1994 he was the Inspector of the Army and from 1994 to 1996 he was Commander Allied Forces Central Europe within NATO.

Andreas Ehrig is a former speed skater from East Germany. Ehrig took part twice in the Winter Olympics in 1980 and 1984, where he ended five times in the top ten and once finished eleventh.