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Transylvanian Saxons The Transylvanian Saxons (german: Siebenbürger Sachsen; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjer Såksen''; ro, Sași ardeleni, sași transilvăneni/transilvani; hu, Erdélyi szászok) are a people of German ethnicity who settled in Transylvania ( ...

Academics

Adele Zay Adele Zay (29 February 1848 – 29 December 1928) was a Transylvanian Saxons, Transylvanian teacher, feminist and pedagogue. Her family were part of the German-speaking community of the Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Kingdom of Hungary. Becau ...

, (1848-1928), pedagogue and teacher training administrator who spread Fröbel's theories on Kindergartens.

Artists

* Wilhelm Georg Berger, composer *

Friedrich von Bömches Friedrich Ritter Bömches von Boor (27 December 1916 – 2 May 2010)
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, painter *

Hans Fronius Hans Fronius (12 September 1903 - 21 March 1988) was an Austrian painter and illustrator. He was born in Sarajevo, which was then a territory of Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Hercegovina). His father was descended from an old, aristocratic Tr ...

, painter and illustrator * Steve Holmes, adult film actor *

Peter Maffay Peter Alexander Makkay (born 30 August 1949), known as Peter Maffay (), is a Romanian-born German musician, singer, and composer. Early life Born in Braşov (german: link=no, Kronstadt), Romania, the son of a German (Transylvanian Saxon), h ...

, singer *

Edith Soterius von Sachsenheim Edith Jeanette Soterius von Sachsenheim (1887–1970) was a Transylvanian Saxon painter, who spent part of her career in England and elsewhere in Europe. Biography Early life von Sachsenheim was born on 26 December 1887, in Marienburg (present-d ...

, painter *

Hymie Schertzer Herman "Hymie" Shertzer or Schertzer (April 22, 1909 – March 22, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, best known for his long-term association with Benny Goodman. Shertzer was born in New York City, United States, began playing violi ...

, musician big band era. * Helge Parsch/Maiterth, Designer * Michael Roth, artist (Canada)

Noble families

House of Soterius von Sachsenheim Soterius von Sachsenheim is a Transylvanian Saxon noble family originating from the village Stein (present-day Dacia), in the former Saxon Repser Stuhl administrative division. Among its members were politicians and bureaucrats in the Transylvania ...

* Fronius family * Medard de Nympz family * Póka von Pókafalva

Politicians

Samuel von Brukenthal Samuel Freiherr von Brukenthal (, 26 July 1721, in Leschkirch – 9 April 1803, in Sibiu) was the Habsburg governor of the Grand Principality of Transylvania between 6 July 1774 and 9 January 1787. He was a personal advisor of Empress Maria T ...

Stephan Ludwig Roth Stephan Ludwig Roth (24 November 1796 – 11 May 1849) was a Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, teacher, pedagogue and Lutheran pastor. Early life Stephan Ludwig Roth was born in Mediasch ( Principality of Transylvania, part of the Austrian Empir ...

* Klaus Johannis, current president of

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

Iancu Sasul Iancu Sasul (''John the Saxon'') or Ioan Vodă V (''Voivode John V''; d. September 28, 1582 in Lviv) was the bastard son of Petru Rareş from his relationship with the wife of Braşov Transylvanian Saxon Iorg (Jürgen) Weiss, and Prince of Mol ...

, Prince of Moldavia

Scientists

Conrad Haas Conrad Haas (1509–1576) was an Austrian or Transylvanian Saxon military engineer. He was a pioneer of rocket propulsion. His designs include a three-stage rocket and a manned rocket. Haas was perhaps born in Dornbach (now part of Hernal ...

, military engineer, pioneer of rocket propulsion *

Hermann Oberth Hermann Julius Oberth (; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Ts ...

, space flight technology pioneer *

Hannah Monyer Hannah Monyer (born 3 October 1957 in Laslea, Romania) is a Romanian-born (Transylvanian Saxon) German neurobiologist and, since 1999,Ignaz Edler von Born Ignaz Edler von Born, also known as Ignatius von Born ( hu, Born Ignác, ro, Ignațiu von Born, cs, Ignác Born) (26 December 1742 in Alba Iulia, Transylvania, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Habsburg monarchy – 24 July 1791 in Vienna), ...

, Mineralogist/Metallurgist

Sportsmen

* Michael Klein, professional soccer player *

Martin Fabi Martin Fabi (November 1, 1942 – January 5, 2023) was a professional Canadian football player. After his father was killed in World War II, the family fled to Austria in 1944. In 1953, Fabi and his family immigrated to Ontario, Canada, where the ...

, football player - CFL *

Randy Fabi Randy Fabi (born 1963 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a former professional Canadian football player. Early years Randy Fabi is the son of Transylvanian Saxons immigrants, CFL player Martin Fabi and Katherine Mergler. He grew up in Aylmer, Ontario ...

, football player - CFL

Writers

Johannes Honterus Johannes Honter (also known as Johann Hynter; Latinized as Johann Honterus or Ioannes Honterus; Romanian sources may credit him as Ioan, Hungarian ones as János; 1498 – 23 January 1549) was a Transylvanian Saxon, renaissance humanist, Prote ...

, theologian *

Christian Schesaus Christian Schesaus (1535 – July 30, 1585) was a Transylvanian Saxon humanist, poet, and a Lutheran pastor. He was born in Mediaș, studied first in Brașov, and then from 1556 to 1558 at the University of Wittenberg. ''Ruinae Pannonnicae' ...

, poet, humanist *

Ioannes Sommerus Johann Sommer ( la, Ioannes Sommerus; 1542–1574) was a Transylvanian Saxon Protestant theologian, poet and Despot Vodă's biographer. Sommer was born in Pirna. In 1562 he enrolled at University of Frankfurt, but did not graduate. Born in P ...

, theologian *

Oskar Pastior Oskar Pastior (; 20 October 1927 – 4 October 2006) was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo. Biography Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), he was deported in January 19 ...

, poet Dr. Misch Orend, author, "Kruge und Teller", and other works about Transylvania *

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