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Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

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Alan Sacks Alan Sachs is an executive producer, most well known as producer and co-creator of the TV series '' Welcome Back Kotter''. He formerly managed the band Unlocking the truth. Disney Alan Sacks produced a string of films for the Disney Channel, ...

, US television producer *

Andrew Sacks Andrew Sacks is the managing partner of the Philadelphia law firm Sacks Weston, LLC. Best known for litigating against companies that damage the environment or injure people, Sacks successfully helped secure a $1.06 billion verdict against Exxon ...

, US attorney * C. Jared Sacks, US founder of

Channel Classics Records Channel Classics Records is a record label from the Netherlands, specializing in classical music. The managing director and producer is C. Jared Sacks, who grew up in Boston. Sacks was schooled as a professional horn player at the Oberlin Conserv ...

David O. Sacks David Oliver Sacks (born 25 May 1972) is a South African American entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017. Previously, Sacks wa ...

(b. 1972), South Africa-born US internet businessman and film producer *

David Sacks David Sacks is an American television writer and producer. Biography He attended Harvard College, graduating with a degree in Government. While there he began his comedy writing career as an editor of the school's humor magazine, ''The Harvard ...

(fl. 21st century), US television writer and producer *

Gerald Sacks Gerald Enoch Sacks (1933 – October 4, 2019) was a logician whose most important contributions were in recursion theory. Named after him is Sacks forcing, a forcing notion based on perfect sets and the Sacks Density Theorem, which asserts that t ...

(b. 1933), US logician * Glenn Sacks (fl. 21st century), US radio personality *

Greg Sacks Greg Sacks (born November 3, 1952) is an American former stock car racing driver. He is married and has three children. He lives in Ormond Beach, Florida. He and his sons are partners in Grand Touring Vodka. Sacks has spent most of his career as ...

(b. 1952), US racing car driver *

Harvey Sacks Harvey Sacks (July 19, 1935 – November 14, 1975) was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way people use language in everyday life. Despite his early death in ...

(1935–1975), US sociologist *

Hayley Anne Sacks Hayley Anne Sacks ( he, היילי אן סאקס , born January 23, 1991) is an American former pair skater who competed internationally for Israel. Career Sacks originally competed in the United States as a single skater. In 2007, she teamed u ...

(b. 1991), US figure skater who competed for Israel * Joel Sacks (b. 1989), Argentine football (soccer) player *

Jonathan Sacks Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks ( he, יונתן הנרי זקס, translit=Yona'tan Henry Zaks; 8 March 19487 November 2020) was an English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author. Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United He ...

(1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom's main body of Orthodox synagogues * Jonathan Sacks (composer) (b. 1950), US musician and composer * Leon Sacks (1902–1972), Democratic member of US House of Representatives * Leslie Sacks (1952-2013), US art dealer and collector *

Mark Sacks Mark D. Sacks (29 December 1953 – 17 June 2008) was a British philosopher best known for his work on Immanuel Kant, Kant, Post-Kantian idealism, and the epistemological tradition in European Philosophy. He was one of the few philosophers i ...

(1953-2008), British philosopher *

Martin Sacks Martin Colin Sacks (born 16 October 1959) is an Australian actor who is chiefly known for his 12-year role on ''Blue Heelers'' from 1993 to 2005. Life and career Sacks was born in Sydney. He got into acting after a bit part in an episode of ' ...

(b. 1959), Australian actor *

Michael Sacks Michael Sacks (born September 11, 1948 in New York City) is an American actor and technology industry executive who played the role of Billy Pilgrim in George Roy Hill's ''Slaughterhouse Five'' (1972). Biography Sacks has a Bachelor of Arts in ...

(b. 1948), US actor *

Mike Sacks Mike Sacks is an American author, humor writer, and magazine editor based in New York City. Sacks is currently an editor at ''Vanity Fair'' and formerly worked for ''The Washington Post''. He contributes to the ''New Yorker'', ''McSweeney’ ...

, US author, humor writer, and magazine editor *

Nathan Sacks Nathan Sacks ( he, נתן זקס) is a former South African professional football (soccer) player who spent one season in the North American Soccer League. Professional In 1981, Sacks signed with the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer ...

, South African football (soccer) player *

Oliver Sacks Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the Uni ...

(1933-2015), English-born US neurologist and author * Peter M. Sacks (b. 1950), South African-born US artist and poet *

Rodney Sacks Rodney Cyril Sacks (born 1949) is a South African billionaire businessman, chairman, and CEO of Monster Beverage since 1990. Early life Rodney Cyril Sacks was born into a Lithuanian-Jewish family, he grew up in South Africa. His brother was art ...

American businessman * Ruth Sacks (b. 1977), South African artist * Yonason Sacks (fl. 21st century), US rabbi

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