Editing Zwickau (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Portrait of Robert Schumann.jpg|thumb|150px|Robert Schumann]]
[[File:Iano Cornarius.jpg|thumb|150px|Janus Cornarius]]
[[File:Jacob Leupold 1674-1727 (01).JPG|thumb|150px|Jacob Leupold]]

===Born before 1900===
*[[Nicholas Storch]] (before 1500 – after 1536), weaver and lay preacher (Zwickau Prophets)
*[[Janus Cornarius]] (c. 1500–1558), philologist and physicians
*[[Gregor Haloander]] (1501–1531), jurist
*[[David Köler]] (1532–1565), musician, organist, choirmaster and composer
*[[Jacob Leupold]] (1674–1727), mechanic and instrument maker
*[[Robert Schumann]] (1810–1856), composer of the Romantic era
*[[Paul Emil Flechsig]] (1847–1929) neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist
*[[Heinrich Schurtz]] (1863–1903), ethnologist and historian
*[[August Horch]] (1868–1952), automotive engineer
*[[Heinrich Waentig]] (1870–1943), economist and politician (SPD)
*[[Hans Dominik (writer)|Hans Dominik]] (1872–1945), writer, journalist and engineer
*[[Fritz Bleyl]] (1880–1966), Expressionist painter and architect
*[[Max Pechstein]] (1881–1955), Expressionist painter
*[[Margaret Scott (suffragette)|"Margaret Scott"]] (1888–1973), militant suffragette in London
*[[Paul Langheinrich]] (1895–1979), genealogist

===Born after 1900===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1982-1123-416, Gerhard Schürer.jpg|thumb|150px|Gerhard Schürer in 1982]]
*[[Gerhard Küntscher]] (1900–1972), orthopedic surgeon and inventor of the modern [[Intramedullary rod|intramedullary nailing procedure]] to treat long bone fractures
*[[Robert Eberan von Eberhorst]] (1902–1982), Austrian automotive engineer
*[[Gershom Schocken]] (1912–1990), Israeli journalist and politician
*[[Gert Fröbe]] (1913–1988), actor
*[[Gerhard Schürer]] (1921–2010), politician (SED)
*[[Erhard Weller]] (1926–1986), actor
*[[Rolf Hädrich]] (1931–2000), film director and screenwriter
*[[Dieter F. Uchtdorf]] (born 1940), Second Counselor in [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. He lived here following World War II.
*[[Harald Fritzsch]] (1943–2022), theoretical physicist (quantum theory)
*[[Volkmar Weiss]] (born 1944), geneticists, social historian and genealogist
*[[Jürgen Croy]] (born 1946), footballer
*[[Christoph Bergner]] (born 1948), politician (CDU), 1993–1994 Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
*[[Eckart Viehweg]] (1948–2010), mathematician
*[[Hagen von Ortloff]] (born 1949), TV-journalist
*[[Werner Schulz]] (1950–2022), politician ([[Alliance 90/The Greens]])
*[[Frank Petzold]] (born 1951), composer and conductor
*[[Christoph Daum]] (1953–2024), football player and coach
*[[Lutz Dombrowski]] (born 1959), athlete and Olympic champion
*[[Lars Riedel]] (born 1967), discus thrower
*[[Sven Günther]] (born 1974), footballer
*[[Cathleen Martini]] (born 1982), bobsledder, world champion
*[[Marie-Elisabeth Hecker]] (born 1987), classical cellist
*[[Danny Röhl]] (born 1989), football coach
*[[Kristin Gierisch]] (born 1990), triple jumper