Sax

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Sax stands for:

and the places

  • Sax-Forstegg , a former lordship in the Rhine Valley
  • Sax SG , a village in the municipality of Sennwald, Canton St. Gallen
  • Sax (Alicante) , a municipality in the Spanish province of Alicante
  • Sax (Minnesota) , a town in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States


Sax is the family name of the following people:

  • the Barons von Sax , noble family from what is now eastern Switzerland

as well as from

  • Adolphe Sax (actually Antoine Joseph Sax ; 1814–1894), Belgian instrument maker and inventor of the saxophone
  • Aline Sax (* 1984), Flemish writer and historian
  • Eberhard von Sax (around 1300), German minstrel
  • Emil Sax (1845–1927), Austrian economist
  • Geoffrey Sax , British director
  • Gyula Sax (1951–2014), Hungarian chess master
  • Ingo Sax (1940–2019), German dialect author
  • Johann Sax von Saxenau († 1306), Bishop of Brixen
  • Leopold Sax († 1915), Austrian football player
  • Max The Sax (* 1985), Austrian saxophonist, composer and arranger
  • Maximilian Sax (* 1992), Austrian soccer player
  • Peter Sax (1597–1662), Schleswig-Holstein historian
  • Petra Sax-Scharl (* 1965), German wheelchair tennis player
  • Pol Sax (* 1960), Luxembourgish writer
  • Ulrich von Sax (also von Hohensax; * approx. 1462; † 1538), Swiss diplomat, mercenary leader, military entrepreneur and first commander in chief of the Swiss army
  • Ursula Sax (* 1935), German artist
  • Uta Sax (* 1939), German actress
  • Walter Sax (1912–1993), German legal scholar
  • William S. Sax (* 1957), American anthropologist and university professor

as well as the fictional characters

  • Mona Sax, killer from the Max Payne series
  • Agaton Sax , master detective in a book series for young people


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