List of personalities of the city of Dresden

The following overview contains well-known personalities who are associated with the Saxon state capital Dresden .

sons and daughters of the town

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Honorary citizen

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Lord Mayor

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Personalities of the TU Dresden

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Jewish personalities

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Bishops of Dresden-Meissen

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Cross Cantors

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Court preacher

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Other personalities associated with the city

The following people were not born in Dresden, but live in the city or have worked here (alphabetically):

• William Abendroth , born July 10, 1838 in Pirna; † March 2, 1908 in Dresden, mathematician, physicist and vice principal of the Kreuzschule in Dresden
• Gotthold Anders , born March 13, 1857 in Bernsdorf; † February 24, 1936 in Dresden, politician (NLP, DVP), MdL
• Friedrich Albert Apel , born November 13, 1847 in Radeberg; † 1905, puppeteer
• Heinrich Gustav Apel , born January 27, 1895 in Luckau; † August 5, 1975 in Dresden, puppet player
• Karl Heinrich Apel , born May 10, 1875; † September 20, 1920 in Dresden, puppet player and cinema owner
• Manfred von Ardenne , born January 20, 1907 in Hamburg; † May 26, 1997 in Dresden, natural scientist in the research areas of physics and medicine
• Max Arnhold , born April 17, 1845 in Dessau; † 1908 in Dresden, banker
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , born November 22, 1710 in Weimar; † July 1, 1784 Berlin, composer, organist at the Sophienkirche (1733 to 1747)
• George Bähr , born March 15, 1666 in Fürstenwalde; † March 16, 1738 in Dresden, builder of the Frauenkirche (1726 to 1743)
• Charlotte Basté , born December 28, 1867 in Saint Petersburg; † May 19, 1928 in Dresden, actress, in Dresden since 1886
• Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin , born January 30, 1789 in Copenhagen; † April 4, 1878 in Dresden, diplomat, writer and translator, since 1827 in Dresden
• Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel , born September 25, 1753 in Ippesheim; † January 25, 1837 in Dresden, diplomat, librarian, natural scientist and mathematician
• Bernardo Bellotto , called Canaletto, born January 30, 1721 in Venice; † November 17, 1780 in Warsaw, Italian painter at the court in Dresden
• Friedrich Kurt Benndorf , born May 27, 1871 in Chemnitz; † February 25, 1945 in Dresden, poet and writer
• Kurt Biehayn , born November 8, 1885 in Meißen; † March 31, 1967 in Dresden, surveyor who gained national fame through his work promoting local research
• Ida Bienert , born November 29, 1870 in Langenbielau; † 1965 in Munich, important Dresden patron and collector of contemporary art
• Franz Blanckmeister , born February 4, 1858 in Plauen; † May 5, 1936 in Dresden, Protestant theologian of the Trinity Church and church historian
• Fritz Bleyl , born October 8, 1880 in Zwickau; † August 19, 1966 in Iburg, architect, expressionist painter (artist group Brücke )
• Hans von Bobrowicz , born June 29, 1901; † September 23, 1977, monument conservator and local history researcher
• Otto von Böhlau , born July 14, 1820 in Espenhain; † July 16, 1893 in Dresden, manor owner and member of parliament
• Walter Böttger , * 1882 in Leipzig; † 1947 in Dresden, puppet player
• Johann Carl Friedrich Bouché , born July 6, 1850 in Schöneberg; † March 11, 1933 in Dresden, garden architect
• Hermann von Broizem , born October 5, 1850 in Leipzig; † March 11, 1918 in Dresden, Saxon general of the cavalry, deputy chairman of the Geography Association in Dresden
• Fritz Brosin (full name: Carl Oscar Friedrich Brosin), born March 13, 1858 in Wehdem; † May 27, 1900 at the "Wilden Kopf" not far from Bad Schandau, German gynecologist and obstetrician in Dresden from 1890 to 1900 and buried there in the Johannisfriedhof
• Heinrich Graf von Brühl , born August 13, 1700 in Gangloffsömmern; † October 28, 1763 in Dresden, Prime Minister of the Electorate of Saxony from 1738 to 1763
• Wilhelm Buck , born November 12, 1869 in Bautzen; † December 2, 1945 in Radebeul, member of the Reichstag, minister of culture and prime minister of Saxony (1920-23)
• Carl Gustav Carus , born January 3, 1789 in Leipzig; † July 26, 1869 in Dresden, doctor, painter and natural philosopher
• Giacomo Casanova , born April 2, 1725 in Venice; † June 4, 1798 in Dux, writer and notorious womanizer, his mother lived for many years in Dresden, which he visited for several weeks
• Giovanni Battista Casanova , born November 2, 1730 in Venice; † December 8, 1795 in Dresden, painter, student of Louis de Silvestre, teacher of Angelika Kauffmann, brother of Giacomo Casanova, director of the Dresden Art Academy since 1776
• Pol Cassel , born March 17, 1892 in Munich; † September 9, 1945 in Kischinew, painter and member of Dresden artists' circles
• Artur Dänhardt , born January 3, 1905 in Mettmann; † after 1978, director of the Green Vault
• Wilhelm Dieckmann , born February 2, 1902; † 27./28. February 1934 in Dresden, Roter Bergsteiger
• Eugen Dieterich , born October 6, 1840 in Waltershausen (Lower Franconia); † April 15, 1904 in Helfenberg near Dresden, chemist, entrepreneur, pioneer of the pharmaceutical industry in Germany (Chemische Fabrik Helfenberg)
• Antonia Dietrich , born January 8, 1900 in Vienna; † August 21, 1975 in Dresden, actress, in Dresden since 1919
• Rolf Dietrich , born July 6, 1933 in Meißen; † March 14, 2012 in Dresden, actor, in Dresden since 1969
• Johann Melchior Dinglinger , born December 26, 1664 in Biberach an der Riss; † March 6, 1731 in Dresden, court goldsmith with Elector August the Strong
• Johannes Donath , born November 3, 1906; † January 19, 1989, climber, mountaineer and sports official
• Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski , born November 11, 1821 in Moscow; † January 28, 1881 in Saint Petersburg, one of the most important Russian writers, lived and worked in Dresden, 1862–1863.
• Felix Draeseke , born October 7, 1835 in Coburg; † February 26, 1913 in Dresden, composer and music teacher, in Dresden since 1876
• Auguste Eichhorn , born September 29, 1851 in Chemnitz; † June 1, 1902 in Dresden, co-founder of the proletarian women's movement, played a key role in founding the workers' education association in Dresden in 1894
• Heinrich Haubold von Einsiedel , born November 14, 1622 at Scharfenstein Castle; † December 19, 1675 in Dresden, Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor, President of the Court of Appeal, Director of the Landscape of the Principality of Altenburg
• Heinrich Ernemann , born May 28, 1850 in Gernrode (Eichsfeld); † May 16, 1928 in Hartha / Saxony, manufacturer of cameras
• Hans Erlwein born June 13, 1872 in Bayrisch Gmain; † October 9, 1914 with Rethel in the Ardennes, architect and Dresden city planner
• August Franz Essenius , † April 7, 1758 in Dresden, royal Polish and electoral Saxon governor
• Christian Friedrich Exner , born May 13, 1718 in Lampertswalde; † September 1, 1798 in Dresden, master builder
• Peter Carl Fabergé , born May 30, 1846 in Saint Petersburg; † September 24, 1920 in Lausanne, Russian goldsmith and court jeweler, spent ten years of his childhood (1860–1870) in Dresden.
• Bernhard Fellmann , born May 23, 1904 in Breslau; † March 25, 1984 in Dresden, interior designer and painter
• Richard Fichte , born July 22, 1896; † January 12, 1982, businessman, writer and essayist
• Gustav Leberecht wing , born February 18, 1802 in Bautzen; † July 5, 1870 in Dresden, orientalist and important editor of the Koran
• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , born February 12, 1777 in Brandenburg a. d. Havel; † January 23, 1843 in Berlin, romantic poet
• Caspar David Friedrich , born September 5, 1774 in Greifswald; † May 7, 1840 in Dresden, most important painter of early German romanticism
• Thomas von Fritsch , baptized September 26, 1700 in Leipzig; † December 1, 1775 in Dresden, statesman, after 1763 head of the Saxon Rétablissement
• Gert Fröbe , born February 25, 1913 in Planitz near Zwickau; † September 5, 1988 in Munich, actor, worked as a stage painter in Dresden
• Norbert Klaus Fuchs , born May 21, 1941 in Hildburghausen; Author, editor and publisher
• Hanns Bruno Geinitz , born October 16, 1814 in Altenburg; † January 28, 1900 in Dresden, geologist and mineralogist
• Friedrich Gerstäcker , born May 10, 1816 in Hamburg; † May 31, 1872 in Braunschweig, writer
• Karl Adolph Gjellerup , born June 2, 1857 in Roholte (Denmark); † October 11, 1919 in Klotzsche, winner of the 1917 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , born August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main; † March 22, 1832 in Weimar, several times in Dresden
• Anton Graff , born November 18, 1736 in Winterthur, Switzerland; † June 22, 1813 in Dresden, portrait painter and professor at the Dresden Art Academy
• Wilhelm Grothaus , born November 17, 1893 in Herten; † 1966 ibid., Workers leader on June 17, 1953 in Dresden
• Justus Friedrich Güntz , born July 21, 1801 in Wurzen; † July 11, 1875 in Dresden, lawyer, editor and owner of the "Dresdner Anzeiger", founder of the Güntz Foundation
• Christian Habicht , born December 24, 1952 in Bad Segeberg; † May 15, 2010 in Dresden, actor
• Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn , born February 14, 1712 in Hamburg; † January 12, 1780 in Dresden, art theorist and collector, director of the Dresden Art Academy
• Wolfgang Hänsch , born January 11, 1929 in Königsbrück near Dresden,; † September 16, 2013 in Dresden, architect
• Niklas Hauptmann , born June 27, 1996 in Cologne, soccer player
• Carl Heinrich von Heineken , born December 24, 1707 in Lübeck; † January 23, 1790 in Altdöbern, art writer and collector, long-time director of the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett
• Heinrich Heitsch , born September 10, 1916 in Spremberg near Neusalza, today the city of Neusalza-Spremberg; † March 31, 1986 in Dresden, Commander of the Friedrich Engels Military Academy (1963–1964)
• Friedrich Hellwig , born April 17, 1782 in Kunsersdorf near Wriezen; † November 9, 1825 in Dresden, singer, actor and director
• Heino Hempel , born December 31, 1920, teacher, technical college director and preservationist
• Lieselott Herforth , born September 13, 1916 in Altenburg; † November 30, 2010 in Dresden, nuclear physicist, first female rector (woman as rector) of a German university (1965–1968, TU Dresden)
• Theodor Julius Hertel , born January 13, 1807 in Nemt near Wurzen; † April 3, 1880 in Dresden; Lawyer and Deputy Mayor
• Paul von Hingst , born December 23, 1846 in Machern; † September 16, 1919 in Dresden, royal Saxon lieutenant general and adjutant general of King Albert of Saxony
• Alfred Hofmann-Stollberg , born October 16, 1882 in Oberplanitz near Zwickau; † February 25, 1962 in Dresden, painter, graphic artist and art teacher
• Henrik Ibsen , born March 20, 1828 in Skien (Norway); † May 23, 1906 in Oslo, writer
• Adam Christoph Jacobi , born November 7, 1638 in Gundorf; † November 14, 1689 in Leipzig, lawyer
• Thaddäus von Jarotzky , born April 27, 1858 in Neisse; † November 16, 1938 in Dresden, Prussian lieutenant general
• Erich Jeschke , born January 7, 1925 in East Prussia; † November 6, 1992, civil engineer, played a key role in the reconstruction of the Semper Opera House and the Residenzschloss
• Hans Johnen * February 26, 1940 in Oy-Mittelberg; † March 14, 2013 in Dresden, mathematician
• Genja Jonas , born September 2, 1895 in Rogasen, Province of Posen; † May 8, 1938 in Dresden; Photographer, lived and worked in Dresden from 1920
• Johanna Kaiser , born June 15, 1912 in Pulsnitz; † February 9, 1991 ibid, painter
• Gustav Kafka , born July 23, 1883 in Vienna; † February 12, 1953 in Veitshöchheim near Würzburg; Professor of Psychology, TH Dresden 1923–1934
• Christoph Heinrich von Kanitz , * 1664; † April 29, 1718 in Dresden, royal Polish and electoral Saxon lieutenant general and manor owner
• Marie Karchow-Lindner , born November 13, 1842 in Berlin; † November 14, 1914 in Dresden, actress, journalist and patron, worked mainly in Dresden
• Gustav Adolph Kietz , born March 26, 1824 in Leipzig; † June 24, 1908 Dresden-Laubegast, sculptor, 1864 honorary member of the Dresden Academy
• Heinrich von Kleist , born October 18 (according to Kleist's own information October 10) 1777 in Frankfurt (Oder); † November 21, 1811 in Berlin, poet and writer
• Victor Klemperer , born October 9, 1881 in Landsberg an der Warthe; † February 11, 1960 in Dresden, writer and literary scholar
• Johann Christoph Knoeffel , * 1686 in Oelsa (Rabenau); † March 10, 1752 in Dresden, architect and builder
• Agatha Kobuch , born February 5, 1933 in Beuthen; † January 16, 2018, archivist and historian
• Manfred Kobuch , born March 12, 1935 in Leipzig; † July 6, 2018 in Dresden, archivist and historian
• Christian Gottfried Körner , born July 2, 1756 in Leipzig; † May 13, 1831 in Berlin, a. a. Friend of Friedrich Schiller
• Nikolaus Krell , * around 1550 in Leipzig; † October 9, 1601 in Dresden (executed), Chancellor of Elector Christian I of Saxony
• Friedrich Wilhelm Kühlmorgen , born May 20, 1851 in Löbau; † October 12, 1932 in Dresden, lawyer and conservative politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
• Irma Lang-Scheer * July 17, 1901 in Brüsau-Brünnlitz; † February 5, 1986 in Dresden, academic painter
• Johannes Leipoldt , born July 11, 1900 in Frohburg; † April 5, 1974 in Reichenbach / Vogtland, historian, museologist and field name researcher
• August Leonhardi , * 1805; † 1865, ink manufacturer in Dresden
• Eduard Leonhardi , born January 19, 1828 in Freiberg; † July 15, 1905 in Dresden / Loschwitz, Dresden landscape painter
• Wilhelm Friedrich August von Leyßer , born July 17, 1771 in Braunschweig; † December 21, 1842 in Dresden, lieutenant general and politician, first President of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
• Karl August Lingner , December 21, 1861 in Magdeburg; † June 5, 1916 in Berlin, founder of Lingnerwerke (Odol)
• Emil Lohse , born July 9, 1885 in Schmiedeberg; † February 14, 1949 in Dresden, pedagogue, art historian, folklorist, museum director, draftsman, painter and silhouette artist
• Sebastian Lohse , born March 24, 1978 in Wolgast, musician, singer and composer, works in Dresden
• Zacharias Longuelune , * 1669; † November 30, 1748 in Dresden, architect and builder
• Franz Lorgie , * 1765; † 1853 in Dresden, puppet player
• Valentin Ernst Löscher , born December 29, 1673 in Sondershausen; † February 12, 1749 in Dresden, Lutheran theologian and hymn poet, superintendent in Dresden
• Ida von Lüttichau , born May 30, 1798 in Sellin / Neumark; † February 1, 1856 in Dresden, patroness and artist
• Rudolph August von Lüttichau , * 1678 in Potschappel; † January 27, 1746 in Dresden, royal-Polish and electoral-Saxon chamber and mountain ridge as well as bailiff of Großenhain
• Wolf Adolf August von Lüttichau , June 15, 1786 in Ulbersdorf; † February 26, 1863 in Dresden, general manager of the Saxon Court Theater in Dresden
• Paul Luther , born January 28, 1533 in Wittenberg; † March 8, 1593 in Leipzig, son of Martin Luther, personal physician to Elector August of Saxony and his successor Christian I.
• Thomas de Maizière , born January 21, 1954 in Bonn, politician (CDU) and Federal Minister of Defense
• Gotthilf August von Maltitz , born July 9, 1794 in Raudischken, † June 7, 1837 in Dresden, writer
• Heinrich Ferdinand Mannstein , born September 16, 1806 in Berggießhübel; † August 3, 1872 in Dresden, singing teacher and writer.
• Count Camillo Marcolini , born April 2, 1739 in Fano (Marken); † July 10, 1814 in Prague, Minister and General Director of the Arts (Meissen porcelain)
• Rudolf Mauersberger , born January 29, 1889 in Mauersberg near Marienberg (Saxony); † February 22, 1971 in Dresden, director of the Kreuzchor
• Friedrich Wilhelm May * 1820 in Polenz; † 1905 in Dresden, farmer and liberal politician (German Progressive Party)
• Karl May , born February 25, 1842 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal; † March 25, 1912 in Radebeul, poet
• Günther Meinert , born July 19, 1912 in Breslau; † August 14, 1988, archivist and historian
• Alexander Ferdinand von Mellentin * September 16, 1759 in Zwickau; † February 16, 1823 in Dresden, royal Saxon major general and commandant of Dresden
• Joachim Menzhausen , born June 14, 1930 in Leipzig; † January 18, 2019 in Dresden, art historian; from 1961 to 1992 director of the Green Vault in Dresden
• Pierre I Mercier , * around 1650 in Aubusson (Creuse); † 1729 in Dresden, Huguenot tapestry artist
• Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich (Prince or until 1813 Count von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein; born May 15, 1773 in Koblenz, † June 11, 1859 in Vienna) was an Austrian diplomat, politician and statesman. At the beginning of his career at the Austrian court, he worked as the imperial or Austrian ambassador in Dresden.
• Lotte Meyer , born February 22, 1909 in Bremen; † June 7, 1991 in Dresden, actress
• Haubold von Miltitz , born July 30, 1613 in Schenkenberg; † March 21, 1690 in Dresden, Electoral Saxon Chancellor, Real Privy Councilor, Court Marshal, Chamber Councilor and Tax Director
• Johannes von Minckwitz , born February 1, 1787 in Altenburg; † March 18, 1857 in Dresden, royal Saxon secret council, minister of state, envoy extraordinary, adjutant general to the king and lieutenant general
• Christian Otto Mohr , born October 8, 1835 in Wesselburen; † October 2, 1918 in Dresden, structural engineer, professor at the Dresden Polytechnic
• Horst Naumann , born October 12, 1908 in Riesa; † February 20, 1990 in Dresden, painter and graphic artist
• Nelly , born November 23, 1899 in Aydın, Ottoman Empire; † August 8, 1998 in Athens, avant-garde photographer
• Hildegard Neumann , born May 11, 1933 in Neugersdorf; † June 22, 2009 in Dresden, historian and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
• Giovanni Maria Nosseni , born May 1, 1544 in Lugano; † September 20, 1620 in Dresden, sculptor
• Carl Gustav Odermann , born May 6, 1815 in Leipzig; † February 12, 1904 in Dresden, German pedagogue, commercial school director.
• Adam Friedrich Oeser * February 17, 1717 in Pressburg; † March 18, 1799 in Leipzig, painter, sculptor and book illustrator
• Gret Palucca , born January 8, 1902 in Munich; † March 22, 1993 in Dresden, dancer and dance teacher as well as founder of the Palucca School Dresden
• Friedrich Paulus , born September 23, 1890 in Breitenau (Guxhagen); † February 1, 1957 in Dresden, Field Marshal General and Army Commander in Chief in World War II
• Ernst August Pech , August 18, 1788 in Hochkirch / Oberlausitz; † January 1, 1863 in Dresden, doctor and university professor
• Max Pechstein , born December 31, 1881 in Zwickau; † June 29, 1955 in Berlin, graphic artist, sculptor and expressionist painter (artist group Die Brücke )
• Fritz Pfleumer , born March 20, 1881 in Salzburg; † August 29, 1945 in Radebeul, inventor of the magnetic tape
• Daniel Pöppelmann , * May 1662 in Herford; † January 17, 1736 in Dresden, Baroque builder
• Erich Ponto , born December 14, 1884 in Lübeck; † February 4, 1957 in Stuttgart, actor
• Friedrich Press , born September 7, 1904 in Ascheberg / Westphalia; † February 5, 1990 in Dresden, sculptor and church interior designer, a. a. Pietà in the Dresden Cathedral
• Egon Pukall , born March 10, 1934 in Rosenberg (East Prussia); † September 23, 1989 in Dresden, painter and graphic artist
• Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Putin , born October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, Russian politician and president, worked in Dresden from 1985-1990 as a KGB resident
• Nikolai Abramowitsch Putyatin , born May 16, 1749 in Kiev; † January 13, 1830 in Dresden, philanthropist, philosopher, founder and eccentric in Kleinzschachwitz, builder of the Putjatin House
• Hans von Querfurth , born September 11, 1849 in Wildenthal (Eibenstock); † September 28, 1931 in Dresden, owner of the Schönheiderhammer ironworks and conservative politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
• Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow , born April 1, 1873 on the Semjonowo estate near Stara Russa; † March 28, 1943 in Beverly Hills, Russian pianist, composer and conductor
• Ewald Redam , born April 29, 1884 in Beiersdorf; † December 9, 1947 in Meißen, heavy athlete and variety artist, was the model for some Dresden sculptures
• Carl Friedrich Reiche-Eisenstuck , born February 18, 1792 in Annaberg; † February 2, 1864 in Dresden, politician and President of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
• Adelheid Reinbold , born January 15, 1800 in Hanover; † February 14, 1839 in Dresden, writer
• Günter Reitz , born April 24, 1911; † January 19, 1994, folklorist and museum educator
• Rudolf Renner , born March 27, 1894 in Beule (Westphalia); † July 30, 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp, German politician (KPD), editor, member of parliament and parliamentary group leader of the KPD in the Saxon state parliament, victim of the Nazi justice system
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Rex , * around 1710; † April 14, 1763 in Dresden, royal Polish and electoral Saxon lieutenant general and chief of the carbine guard
• Klaus Sammer , born December 5, 1942 in Gröditz, former football player and coach
• Gustav "Gummi" Schäfer , born September 22, 1906 in Johanngeorgenstadt; † December 10, 1991 in Munich, Dresden rowing legend and Olympic champion from 1936
• Joachim Schardin , * 1934 in Groß Jestin; † September 15, 1996 in Dresden, watchmaker and art historian
• Friedrich Schiller , born November 10, 1759 in Marbach am Neckar; † May 9, 1805 in Weimar, To the joy for CG Körner in Dresden
• Friedrich Schlegel , born March 10, 1772 in Hanover; † January 12, 1829 in Dresden
• Martin Schlegel , * 1581 in Dippoldiswalde; † August 4, 1640 in Weißensee, third court preacher
• Erich Schmidt , born August 6, 1910 in Metz; † June 8, 2005 in Radebeul, 1952–1986 lecturer in choral conducting and deputy director at the church music school, conducted concerts in Dresden in 1961 as director of the Meißner Kantorei
• Gerhard Schmidt , born May 16, 1920 in Darmstadt, historian and archivist
• Johann George Schmidt , * 1707 in Fürstenwalde, † July 24, 1774 in Dresden, master builder and councilor carpenter
• Rudolf Scholz , born January 29, 1939 in Plagwitz, district of Löwenberg i. Silesia; † August 10, 2019 in Dresden, musician, journalist, writer
• Andreas von Schönberg , born February 22, 1600 in Wolkenstein; † August 3, 1688 in Dresden, secretary and war councilor, sergeant general and supreme commander of the Dresden fortifications
• Bernd Schöne , born August 14, 1940 in Golleow, Lower Silesia; † May 3, 2009 in Dresden, ethnologist
• Friedrich Ernst von Schönfels , born November 25, 1796 in Tobertitz; † May 1, 1878 in Dresden, officer, manor owner and liberal politician
• Arthur Schopenhauer , born February 22, 1788 in Danzig; † September 21, 1860 in Frankfurt am Main, completed main work 1814–1818 in Dresden
• Peter Schreier , born July 29, 1935 in Meißen, † December 25, 2019 in Dresden, tenor and conductor
• Olaf Schubert , born November 7, 1967 in Plauen, cabaret artist and musician
• Clemens Schumann , born March 9, 1876 in Königstein; † May 3, 1938 in Dresden, musician, from 1900 to 1936 violinist in the Dresden Staatskapelle
• Robert Schumann , born June 8, 1810 in Zwickau; † July 29, 1856 in Endenich near Bonn, composer of the Romantic period
• Heinrich Schütz , born October 18, 1585 in Köstritz; † November 6, 1672 in Dresden, early Baroque composer
• Gottfried Semper , born November 29, 1803 in Altona; † May 15, 1879 in Rome, architect, builder of the opera
• Friedrich Sieber * August 13, 1893 in Friedersdorf (Spree); † March 21, 1973 in Eberswalde, pedagogue, teacher, folklorist, head of the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore in Dresden after the Second World War
• Volker Sielaff , born May 11, 1966 in Großröhrsdorf, writer and critic, lives in Dresden
• Gottfried Silbermann , born January 14, 1683 in Kleinbobritzsch; † August 4, 1753 in Dresden, instrument maker , builder of the organ in the Hofkirche (preserved) and in the Sophienkirche (1720), in the Kath. Chapel on Taschenberg (1720) and in the Frauenkirche (1735) (none of them preserved)
• Louis de Silvestre , born June 26, 1675 in Sceaux; † April 11, 1760 in Paris, painter and portraitist, from 1716 court painter to the Electors of Saxony for over 30 years
• Artur Speck , born June 19, 1877 in Pirna; † January 25, 1960 in Dresden, road construction engineer and ministerial advisor, head of the Saxon road construction directorate
• Hugo Spieler , born February 28, 1854 in Wilsnack; † February 18, 1922 in Dresden, sculptor, professor at the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts
• Gustav Spitzner , born October 17, 1803 in Stolpen; † October 15, 1870 in Dresden, royal Saxon civil servant in the general commission for replacements and common divisions
• Johann Georg Starcke , * 1630 in Magdeburg or Pirna; † December 5, 1695 in Dresden, master builder
• Adolf Stern , born June 14, 1835 in Leipzig; † April 15, 1907 in Dresden, writer, professor of literature at the Dresden Polytechnic
• Manfred Streubel , born November 5, 1932 in Leipzig; † July 10, 1992 in Dresden, poet and children's book author
• Gerhard Thümmler , born July 6, 1920; † July 13, 2007, editor and historian
• Friedrich Wilhelm Tittmann , born April 29, 1784 in Wittenberg; † May 20, 1864, archivist and historian, namesake of Tittmannstrasse in Striesen
• Hans von Trebra-Lindenau , born November 15, 1842 in Schneeberg (Ore Mountains); † October 29, 1914 in Blasewitz, lawyer and politician, MdL
• Heinrich Tscharmann , born December 28, 1859 in Leipzig; † May 22, 1932 in Dresden, architect
• Mathias Ullmann , * 1960 in Halle / Saale, historian, author and musician
• Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein , born June 26, 1788 in Wildenfels (Saxony); † March 4, 1868 in Munich, professor at the art academy and court painter
• Karl Adolf von Wachsmann (born September 27, 1787 in Grünberg in Silesia, † August 28, 1862 in Dresden), writer
• Anne Wächter , born July 27, 1931 in Bothenheilingen, nature and environmental conservationist
• Christfried Wächtler * November 18, 1652 in Grimma; † September 5, 1732 in Dresden, lawyer and polyhistor
• Otto Wagner , born December 29, 1803 in Torgau; † December 1, 1861 in Niederlößnitz, landscape and architecture painter
• Paul Adolf Wagner , born April 4, 1868 in Döbeln; † April 14, 1951 in Königstein, deputy principal in Dresden-Johannstadt, geologist and geography didactic
• Richard Wagner , born May 22, 1813 in Leipzig; † February 13, 1883 in Venice, composer
• Angelo Walther , born November 6, 1928 in Burkhardtsdorf, art historian and curator of the Old Masters Picture Gallery
• Kurt Warnekros , born November 15, 1882 in Neustrelitz; † September 30, 1949 in Paris, gynecologist, head of the Dresden Women's Clinic from 1925 to 1948
• Carl Maria von Weber , born November 18, 1786 in Eutin; † June 5, 1826 in London, composer
• Anton Weck , born January 10, 1623 in Annaberg; † September 21, 1680 in Bautzen, electoral Saxon councilor and secret secretary, author of a Dresden chronicle
• Heinz Wehner , born May 22, 1934, economic historian and professor at the University of Transport
• Friedrich Wieck , born August 18, 1785 in Pretzsch near Wittenberg; † October 6, 1873 in Loschwitz near Dresden, musician and music teacher, father-in-law of Robert Schumann
• Mary Wigman , born November 13, 1886 in Hanover; † September 19, 1973 in Berlin; Dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann * December 9, 1717 in Stendal; † June 8, 1768 in Trieste, classical scholar and pioneer of Weimar Classics
• Klaus-Dieter Wintermann , born May 23, 1953 in Rohrborn; † January 3, 2001, art historian and museum director
• Hermann Wolf , born May 13, 1861 in Großwaltersdorf; † January 29, 1939 in Freital, teacher and pioneer of the proletarian natural healing movement
• Julius Ferdinand Wollf , born May 22, 1871 in Koblenz; † February 27, 1942 in Dresden, journalist and newspaper publisher, DNN editor-in-chief
• Balthasar Wurmb , * 1532; † November 13, 1598 in Dresden, Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and governor
• Ludwig Adam Christian von Wuthenau , born June 28, 1751 in Merseburg; † January 6, 1805 in Dresden, electoral court judge in Leipzig and chief tax collector in Dresden, canon of Naumburg monastery
• Jan Dismas Zelenka , born October 16, 1679 in Launowitz in Bohemia; † December 23, 1745 in Dresden, baroque composer of Czech origin, worked a. a. also at the Saxon court in Dresden
• Ray van Zeschau (alias RJKKHänsch) * April 12, 1964 in Sofia, Bulgaria, singer and filmmaker
• Wolfgang Zimmer , born April 14, 1920, cultural functionary who founded and directed the Dresden Cultural Academy
• Rudolf Zimmermann , born September 8, 1878 in Rochlitz; † August 28, 1943 in Dresden, publisher and photographer who specialized in animal photography
• Dietrich Zühlke , born April 18, 1925 in Bischofswerda; † December 11, 1983, geographer

credentials

1. ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ SLUB Dresden
3. ↑ z. B. 1768 with the experience of the philosophical cobbler Haucke, cf. [1]
4. ↑ Český lid