- John Kluge
John Werner Kluge (born September 21, 1914) is an entrepreneur who was born in Chemnitz, Germany, best known as a television industry mogul in the United States. He earned his B.A. degree in Economics from Columbia University in 1937.
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 - August 10, 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker.
- Sylke Otto
Sylke Otto (born July 7, 1969 in Chemnitz) is a German luger who competed from 1991 to 2007. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's singles event in 2002 and 2006. Otto won twelve medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with six golds (Women's singles: 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005; Mixed team: 2003, 2005), three silvers (Mixed team: 1997, 2000, 2001), and three bronzes (Women's singles: 1999, 2004; Mixed team: 1999).
- Klaus Wunderlich
Klaus Wunderlich (June 18, 1931 - died October 28, 1997) was a German musician. Wunderlich was born in Chemnitz and died in Engen. Wunderlich played the Hammond organ during his early career but later switched to Wersi organs with which he created his own electronic sound. He was open to different music styles and played classic, operetta, musical as well as popular music. He sold more than 20 million records all over the world and received 13 golden albums.
- Ingo Steuer
Ingo Steuer (born November 1, 1966 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Saxony, GDR/East Germany) is a German figure skater.
- Stefan Heym
Helmut Flieg (April 10, 1913 - December 16, 2001) was a German-Jewish writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States (or served in its army abroad) between 1935 and 1952, before moving back to the part of his now-partitioned native Germany which was the German Democratic Republic (GDR, "East Germany"). He published works in English and German at home and abroad, …
- Frank Rost
Frank Rost (born 30 June 1973) is a German professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Hamburger SV. Rost was born in Karl Marx Stadt (Chemnitz), Saxony. He comes from a famous family background; his father Peter won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in handball, and his mother Christina, also a handball player, won the silver at the 1976 Olympic Games and bronze at the 1980 Games. Rost was signed from Werder Bremen in 2002, …
- Mandy Wötzel
Mandy Wötzel is a German World Champion figure skater.
- Georg Fabricius
Georg Fabricius, born Georg Goldschmidt (April 23 1516 - July 17, 1571), was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist.
- Stev Theloke
Stev Theloke (born on January 18, 1978 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a professional swimmer from Germany, who won two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He did so in the 4x100 metres medley relay and in the 100 metres backstroke. Theloke missed the 2004 Summer Olympics due to injury, and he was expelled from the German team for the 2005 World Aquatics Championships after he criticised his own swimming federation in an interview.
- Gabriele Seyfert
Gabriele ("Gaby") Seyfert (born November 23, 1948 in Chemnitz) is a former German figure skater.
- Anett Pötzsch
Anett Pötzsch is a German figure skater. Pötzsch was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR (today renamed Chemnitz, Germany) in 1960. She represented the GDR (East Germany) in the ladies events at international championships and in 1980 became the Olympic Champion, as well as world champion in 1978 and 1980. She also won the European title four times, from 1977 to 1980. Her coach was Jutta Müller. Pötzsch was married to Axel Witt, the brother of Katarina Witt.
- Gustav Zeuner
Gustav Anton Zeuner (30 November 1828 - 17 October 1907) was a German physicist, engineer and epistemologist, considered the founder of technical thermodynamics and of the Dresden School of Thermodynamics.
- Frei Otto
Frei Paul Otto (31 May, 1925) is a German architect and structural engineer.
- Anja Mittag
Anja Mittag (born May 16, 1985 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany) is a German international women's footballer, who currently plays for 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam.
- Heinz Winkler
Heinz Winkler (7 July 1910 - 25 June 1958) was an East German Christian Democratic politician. Winkler was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He was trained as an architect. In 1938 he joined the Nazi Party. From 1941 to 1945 he was a Wehrmacht soldier. After the war he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Soviet Occupation Zone in 1945. Until 1953 Winkler was the leader of a reconstruction bureau, responsible for the reconstruction of the city of Chemnitz.
- Christian Gottlob Heyne
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 born in Chemnitz, Saxony. His father was a poor weaver, and his education was paid for by his godfather. In 1748 he entered the University of Leipzig, where he was often short of the necessaries of life. He was in despair by the time he obtained a position as tutor in the family of a French merchant in Leipzig, …
- Helmut Schelsky
Helmut Schelsky, (14 October 1912 - 24 February 1984), was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s.
- Joachim Wach
Joachim Wach (January 25, 1898 - August 27, 1955) was a German religious scholar from Chemnitz, Kingdom of Saxony, who emphasised a distinction between the history of religion and the philosophy of religion.
- Christian Gottlob Neefe
Christian Gottlob Neefe (5 February 1748 - 28 January, 1798) was a German opera composer and conductor. Neefe was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. Educated at the University of Leipzig, he was a pupil of Johann Adam Hiller, under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas. He later became court organist in Bonn and was a teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven. He helped Beethoven produce some of his first works.
- Romy Kermer
Romy Kermer married Österreich (born July 28 1956 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), Saxony, East Germany/GDR) is a German figure skater and figure skating coach. Romy Kermer began with figure skating in Karl-Marx-Stadt. She became a pair skater already there. Her first partner was Tassilo Thierbach. 1972 she moved to Berlin and skated there at the club SC Dynamo Berlin. Her coach was Heidemarie Seiner-Walther.
- Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt was a German painter, sculptor, and designer involved with the Bauhaus beginning in 1923, where her designs for practical metal objects formed an important part of the repertoire. Many of these designs including lamps, ashtrays and other household objects remain in production today. Brandt was born in Chemnitz and trained as a painter before joining the Weimar Bauhaus in 1923.
- Günter Zöller
Günter Zöller is a German figure skater and figure skating coach. Zöller was a child when he began figure skating. His coach was Jutta Müller. He skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and represented East Germany. In 1967 he won the East German nationals over Reinhard Mirmseker, the then-president of the Deutsche Eislauf-Union (German national figure skating organisation). In 1970 he won bronze medals at the Europeans and the Worlds. Afterwards he was injured.
- Stephan Hermlin
Stephan Hermlin (April 13, 1915 - April 6, 1997), real name "Rudolf Leder," was a German author. He wrote, among other things, stories, essays, translations, and lyric poetry and was one of the more well-known authors of former East Germany.
- Irmtraud Morgner
Irmtraud Elfriede Morgner (August 22 1933 - May 6 1990) was an East German feminist writer. Her 1974 montage novel "Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura" has been translated into English, with the title "The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos". Morgner was born in Chemnitz and died in Berlin.
- Veronika Maria Bellmann
Veronika Maria Bellmann (born November 20, 1960 in Chemnitz ("then Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany")) is a German politician and member of the CDU.
- Paul Oswald Ahnert
Paul Oswald Ahnert was a German astronomer. He became famous in Germany for publishing the "Kalender für Sternenfreunde" from 1948 until 1988, an annual calendar of astronomical events. Ahnert was born in Chemnitz, Kingdom of Saxony. During the First World War he served as an ordinary German field-soldier.
- Arthur Looss
Arthur Looss was a German zoologist and parasitologist. Looss was born in 1861 in Chemnitz, and was educated both there and in Łódź, Poland. Thereafter, he studied at the University of Leipzig, where he received a doctorate for his study of trematodes. Looss was sent by Rudolf Leuckart to Egypt to study the transmission of bilharzia, where he became accidentally infected with hookworm, and in so doing discovered the method by which the larvae penetrate the skin.
- Johannes Martini
Johannes Martini was a German oil painter and graphic artist. Martini was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He was a student of Franz Skarbina at the Akademie der Künste of Berlin, and he spent two years at the Académie Julian in Paris. Martini exhibited his work at the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin and the Paris Salon. He participated in the jubilee exhibit for the 90th birthday of Luitpold of Bavaria, as well as the Annual Exhibition in Berlin's Glass Palace.
- Max Klauß
Max Klauß is a retired East German long jumper. He competed for the sports clubs SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and SC Einheit Dresden during his active career.
- Peter von Zahn
Peter von Zahn was a German author, film maker, and journalist. Born in Chemnitz as a son of an officer, he grew up in Dresden and studied law, history, and philosophy. He was drafted at the beginning of World War II. After the war, he was one of the founders of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). For three years, he managed the NWDR Studio in Düsseldorf where he introduced anglo-saxon style journalism with self-critical irony.
- Wolfgang Nordwig
Wolfgang Nordwig is a former East German pole vaulter who won gold at the 1972 Summer Olympics with a clearance of 5.50 m (18'½").
- Gerson Goldhaber
Gerson Goldhaber (born February 20, 1924 in Chemnitz, Germany) is an American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He is one of the discoverers of the D meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark. He currently works at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and is a professor of physics emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor of Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.
- André Hunger
André Hunger is a German artist.
- Brigitte Wujak
Brigitte Wujak, née Künzel is a retired long jumper who represented East Germany with the SC Dynamo Berlin. She won the silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a personal best jump of 7.04 metres. This was the German record at the time, and remained her career best jump. The result places her fourth on the German all-time performers list, behind Heike Drechsler, Helga Radtke and Sabine Paetz.
- Gerd Böckmann
Gerd Böckmann is a German television actor.
- Kati Winkler
Kati Winkler (born January 16 1974 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz)) is a German figure skater and specialized in ice dancing. Kati Winkler was a team in ice dancing with René Lohse. They won the bronze medla at the World championships in ice dancing in 2004. This was the greatest success for the German icedancers since 1973, the time of Angelika Buck/Erich Buck. They were also the first German icedance pairs which qualified for the Grand Prix final.
- Andreas
The love for music has always been strong in my life. But it took a long way to find the style he would consider as 'my style'. As a teen i listend to Deathmetal - a few years later i changed to Industrial and Gothic. I came in first contact with electronic music while visiting a party where Kosheen played a dnb-set. Since this time dnb has been a constant part of my life.
- James
Funny and crazy freak.Sometimes quiet,sometimes loud. Heavy fallen in love with my princess,miss mary <3. I'm studying chemistry in Chemnitz(Germany) and I love to listen to good music.
- Maxi
Bin schwarz gekleidet.