Sachs is a German surname, meaning "man from

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 ...

". Sachs is a common surname among

Ashkenazi Jews Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

from Saxony, in the United States sometimes adopted in the variant

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, supposedly in reference to the Hebrew phrase ''Zera Kodesh Shemo'' (ZaKS), literally "his name is Holy Seed," a quotation from Isaiah 6:13.Elsdon Coles Smith, Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) Notable people with the surname Sachs include: *

Albie Sachs Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs (born 30 January 1935) is a South African lawyer, activist, writer, and former judge appointed to the first Constitutional Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela. Early life and education Albie Sachs was born on ...

(born 1935), South African Constitutional Court Justice *

Andrew Sachs Andreas Siegfried Sachs (7 April 1930 – 23 November 2016), known professionally as Andrew Sachs, was a German-born British actor and writer. He made his name on British television and found his greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Sp ...

(1930–2016), German-British actor *

Bernard Sachs Bernard Sachs (January 2, 1858 – February 8, 1944) was an American neurologist. Early life and education After graduating with a B.A. from Harvard in 1878, Sachs travelled to Europe and studied under some of the more prominent physicians ...

(1858–1944), American neurologist *

Curt Sachs Curt Sachs (; 29 June 1881 – 5 February 1959) was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology (the study of musical instruments). Among his contributions was the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which he created with Eric ...

(also Kurth Sachs, 1881–1959), German music historian *

Ed Sachs Edwin Richard Sachs (February 11, 1918 – July 15, 1996) was an American professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, co ...

(1918–1996), American professional basketball player *

Eddie Sachs Edward Julius Sachs Jr, (May 28, 1927 – May 30, 1964) was a United States Auto Club driver who was known as the "Clown Prince of Auto Racing". He coined the phrase "If you can't win, be spectacular". Early life Sachs was born May 28, 1927 in ...

(1927–1964), American racecar driver *

Edwin Sachs Edwin Otho Sachs FRSE FRGS (5 April 1870 – 9 September 1919) was a British architect and engineer of German descent, who, by his interest in theatre and working as a stagehand and fireman, specialized in the prevention of theatre fires. Furt ...

(1870–1919), British architect *

Ernest Sachs Ernest Sachs (January 25, 1879 – December 2, 1958) was an American neurosurgeon. The grandson of Goldman Sachs's founder, he became Professor of Neurosurgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri in 1919. He wa ...

(1879–1958), American neurosurgeon * Ernest Sachs, Jr. (1916–2001), American neurosurgeon *

Gunter Sachs Fritz Gunter Sachs (14 November 1932 – 7 May 2011, also Gunter Sachs von Opel) was a German photographer, author, Rosenberg student, industrialist, and latterly head of an institute that researched claims of astrology. As a young man he bec ...

(1932–2011), German photographer, researcher (mathematics and astrology), and playboy * George Sachs (1896–1961), Russia-born German and US metallurgist *

Hans Sachs (disambiguation) Hans Sachs (1494–1576) was a German poet, the inspiration for the character in Lortzing's opera and in Wagner's ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.'' Hans Sachs may also refer to: * Hans Sachs (serologist) (1877–1945), German serologist *Hans S ...

Hans Sachs Hans Sachs (5 November 1494 – 19 January 1576) was a German '' Meistersinger'' ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright, and shoemaker. Biography Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg (). As a child he attended a singing school that was held in the chur ...

(1494–1576), German poet **

Hans Sachs (serologist) Hans Sachs (June 6, 1877, Kattowitz (Katowice) – March 25, 1945, Dublin), was a German serologist. He was of Jewish ancestry.Horst Dickel, "HANS SACHS" in Gisela M. B. Holfter (ed.), ''German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945'', Rodopi (2006), ...

(1877–1945), German serologist *

Harvey Sachs Harvey Sachs, (born Cleveland, Ohio, June 8, 1946) is an American-Canadian-Swiss writer who has written books on musical subjects. Writing His books include biographies of and a book of essays on the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, plus an e ...

(born 1946), American-Canadian conductor and writer * Heinrich Sachs (1863–1928), German neuroanatomist *

Hilda Sachs Hilda Gustafva Sachs (13 March 1857, Norrköping – 26 February 1935), was a Swedish journalist, translator, writer and feminist. She was the daughter of merchant Johan Gustaf Engström and Gustafva Augusta Gustafsson in Norrköping. She worked ...

(1857–1935), Swedish journalist and women's rights activist *

Horst Sachs Horst Sachs (27 March 1927 – 25 April 2016) was a German mathematician, an expert in graph theory, a recipient of the Euler Medal (2000). He earned the degree of Doctor of Science (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle- ...

, German mathematician, expert in graph theory *

Hugh Sachs Hugh J Sachs (born 25 February 1964) is an English actor, best known for his role as Gavin Ramsbottom in the ITV hit sitcom ''Benidorm''. Career Sachs has appeared in numerous television shows and films, including ''Aristocrats'', ''Foyle's ...

, British actor in the TV series ''Benidorm'' *

Ignacy Sachs Ignacy Sachs (Warsaw, 1927) is a Polish-born French economist. He is considered to be an ''ecosocioeconomist'' for his ideas about development as a combination of economic growth, equalitarian increase in social well-being and environmental prese ...

(born 1927), Polish, naturalized French economist and ecosocioeconomist *

James D. Sachs James D. Sachs (born 1949) is a retired United States Air Force veteran, video game artist and game programmer. Sachs was the lead artist on the groundbreaking Amiga computer game ''Defender of the Crown'' from Cinemaware (first published in ...

, retired U.S. Air Force veteran, game artist, and game programmer *

Jeffrey Sachs Jeffrey David Sachs () (born 5 November 1954) is an American economist, academic, public policy analyst, and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor. He is known for his work ...

(born 1954), American economist *

Johann Sachs Johann Melchior Ernst Sachs (28 February 1843 – 18 May 1917) was a German romantic composer, who also held teaching and performing posts. He studied first at Altdorf Seminary; taught in elementary schools from 1861 to 1863, and later ente ...

(born 1843), German composer *

Jonathan Sachs Jonathan Sachs (born June 25, 1947) is a programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program. Sachs left Lotus in 1985 to develop photo-editing so ...

(born 1947), American computer programmer *

Julius von Sachs Julius von Sachs (; 2 October 1832 – 29 May 1897) was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia. He is considered the founder of experimental plant physiology and co-founder of modern water culture. Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop ...

(1832–1897), German botanist *

Lenny Sachs Leonard David Sachs (August 7, 1897 – October 27, 1942) was an American basketball and football coach and player. In 1961, he was posthumously enshrined as a coach in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 7 ...

(1897–1942), American football player and basketball coach *

Lessie Sachs Lessie Sachs (1897–1942) was a German-born American poet and artist who was active during World War I and World War II. Biography Lessie Sachs was born in 1897 in Breslau, then a city in the German Empire. She was the only child of neurologist ...

(1897–1942), German-born poet and artist *

Leonard Sachs Leonard Meyer Sachs (26 September 1909 – 15 June 1990) was a South African-born British actor. Life and career Sachs was born in the town of Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal Colony, present day South Africa. He was Jewish. He emigrated to ...

(1909–1990), British actor *Prof

Marcus Sachs Marcus Sachs (1812–1869) was a Polish Jew who emigrated to Scotland and became Professor of Hebrew at the Free Church Divinity Hall in Aberdeen (later known as Christ's College. Life He was born the son of an engineer in Inowroclaw in the ...

(1812-1869) Professor of Hebrew in Aberdeen * Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985), art photographer * Margaret Sachs, an American lawyer and the Robert Cotten Alston Professor at University of Georgia *

Maria Sachs Maria Lorts Sachs (born March 25, 1949) is a Democratic politician from Florida. She was a member of the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2016, representing parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Previously, she served two terms in the Florida H ...

, American politician *

Mary Sachs Mary Sachs (1882-1973) was an American playwright and poet. Biography Mary Sachs was born Mary Parmly Koues in 1882. She graduated from Smith College in 1912, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Sachs published her first play, ...

(1882–1973), American playwright and poet. *

Maurice Sachs Maurice Sachs (born Maurice Ettinghausen, 16 September 1906, Paris – 14 April 1945, Germany) was a French-Jewish writer. Biography Sachs was the son of a Jewish family of jewelers. He was educated in an English-style boarding-school, lived fo ...

(1906–1945), French author * Mavro Sachs (1817–1888), Croatian physician *

Mendel Sachs Mendel Sachs (; April 13, 1927 – May 5, 2012) was an American theoretical physicist. His scientific work includes the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity. Biography ...

(born 1927), American physicist *

Michael Sachs Michael Yechiel Sachs (; 3 September 1808 – 31 January 1864) was a Prussian rabbi from Groß-Glogau, Silesia. Life He was one of the first Jewish graduates from the modern universities, earning a Ph.D. degree in 1836. He was appointed Rabbi i ...

(born 1808), German rabbi *

Milan Sachs Milan Sachs (28 November 1884 – 4 August 1968) was a Czech-Croatian opera conductor and composer, who was long associated with the Zagreb Opera in Croatia, where he conducted some important local premieres, including Wagner's ''Parsifal'', and ...

(1884–1968), Czech-Croatian opera conductor and composer * Moses Sachs (1800–1870), German Meshulach *

Nelly Sachs Nelly Sachs (; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of he ...

(1891–1970), German poet * Paul J. Sachs (1878–1965), American museum director *

Philip Sachs Philip "Cincy" Sachs (April 1, 1902 – December 19, 1973) was an American basketball interim head coach for the Detroit Falcons, a Basketball Association of America team, in 1946–47. After taking over the team from Glenn M. Curtis, Sachs poste ...

(1902–1973), American professional basketball coach *

Rainer K. Sachs Rainer Kurt "Ray" Sachs (born June 13, 1932) is a German-American mathematical physicist, with interests in general relativistic cosmology and astrophysics, as well as a computational radiation biologist. He is professor emeritus of Mathematics an ...

(born 1932), German-born American scientist known for his work in astrophysics and biophysics *

Robin Sachs Robin Sachs (5 February 1951 – 1 February 2013) was an English actor, active in the theatre, television and films. He was also known for his voice-over work in films and video games. Born to a theatrical family, Sachs studied at the Royal Acad ...

(1951–2013), British actor *

Salomo Sachs Salomo Sachs ( he, זקס שְׁלֹמֹה, Šəlomoh Sachs; born on 22 December 1772 in Berlin; died on 14 May 1855) was a Jewish Prussian architect, astronomer, Prussian building official, mathematician, drawing teacher for architecture, teacher ...

(1772–1855), Prussian architect and engineer *

Stephen Sachs Stephen Sachs (born August 14, 1959) is an American stage director and playwright. He is the co-artistic director of the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, which he co-founded in 1990. Biography Sachs was born in San Francisco and grew up in Los ...

(born 1959), American stage director and playwright *

Stephen H. Sachs Stephen Howard Sachs (January 31, 1934 – January 12, 2022) was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Maryland. He served as the Attorney General of Maryland from 1979 to 1987. He was noted for prosecuting the Catonsville Nine in 196 ...

(1934–2022), American politician and Attorney General of Maryland * Wolfgang Sachs (born 1946), German researcher and author of books Fictional characters: * Andrea Sachs, created by Lauren Weisberger *

Daniel Sachs Proventus is a privately held Swedish investment company founded in 1980 by Robert Weil. It was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange from 1982 until 1995. Proventus currently holds shares in companies such as BRIO AB,Lincoln Rhyme Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He late ...

series of crime/mystery novels by Jeffery Deaver. *Benjamin Sachs, protagonist in the novel Leviathan (Auster novel) by Paul Auster

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