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The Saxons were a Germanic people during the Early Middle Ages, related to the Anglo-Saxons.

Saxon may also refer to:

Places

United States

  • Saxon, South Carolina, a census-designated place
  • Saxon, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Saxon, Wisconsin, a town
  • Saxon (CDP), Wisconsin, an unincorporated census-designated place within the town
  • Saxon Harbor, a harbor in Wisconsin
  • Saxon Boulevard, a road in Volusia County, Florida

Elsewhere

  • Saxon, Switzerland, a district of Martigny, canton of Valais
  • Saxon River, New Zealand
  • Saxon Elbeland, area near a river in Germany
  • Saxon Street, a village in Woodditton parish, Cambridgeshire, England
  • Saxon Uplands, hilly countryside in Saxony, Germany

Arts and entertainment

  • Saxon (band), a British heavy metal band, formed in 1975
  • Saxon (album), a 1979 debut album by the band Saxon
  • The Saxons, the original name of Scottish pop band Bay City Rollers
  • Sky Saxon, a stage name of American rock and roll musician Richard Marsh (1937-2009)
  • "Saxon", a song by Chase & Status
  • Saxon (film), a 2007 independent British film
  • Gar Saxon, a Mandalorian commander in the Star Wars universe
  • Tiber Saxon, a fictional Star Wars character in the animated series Star Wars Rebels
  • Harold Saxon, a pseudonym of The Master, an enemy of Doctor Who
  • Saxon Garvey, a character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
  • Peter Saxon, house pseudonym used by various thriller writers from the 1950s to the 1970s
  • Machinesmith, a Marvel Universe villain born Samuel "Starr" Saxon
  • Saxon Greeting, a gymnastic routine performed by women in Nazi Germany
  • Saxon World Chronicle, 13th century German universal history
  • The Saxon Stories, series of historical novels by Bernard Cornwell

People

  • Saxon (given name)
  • Saxon (surname)
  • Bruno the Saxon, 11th-century German chronicler of the eleventh century
  • nickname of Matthew Saxon McEwan, late 19th century Scottish rugby football player
  • Alex Saxon, pen name of Bill Pronzini (born 1943), American writer of detective fiction
  • Inhabitants of one of three modern states () of Germany: Lower Saxony, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
  • Inhabitants of one of the predecessor states to the modern German states; see Saxony (disambiguation)#Historical German states

Other uses

  • Saxon language (disambiguation), various old and modern languages
  • Saxon pound, unit of currency in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Saxon thaler, historical currency of the Kingdom of Saxony
  • Saxon White, a large diamond from India
  • Saxon (firework), a ground-based pyrotechnic device
  • Saxon (horse), an American racehorse who won the 1874 Belmont Stakes
  • Saxon Gold rabbit, a breed of rabbit
  • Saxon Colour pigeons, a group of Saxon breeds of fancy pigeons
  • Saxon Fairy Swallow pigeon, a breed of fancy pigeon
  • Saxon Monk, a breed of fancy pigeon
  • Saxon Spot, a breed of fancy pigeon
  • Saxon Shield, a breed of fancy pigeon
  • Saxon wasp, common social wasp found in Europe and Asia
  • Saxon (vehicle), a British Army armoured personnel carrier
  • Saxon Motor Car Company, American car maker from 1914 to 1922
  • Saxon (automobile), produced from 1913 to 1923
  • Saxon Mill, former mill at Guy's Cliffe, Warwickshire, England
  • Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company, German railway company
  • Saxon math, a mathematics learning program for grades K-12
  • Saxon Studio International, London reggae sound system
  • Saxon XSLT, an open-source XSLT and XQuery processor
  • Alfred Saxons, an American collegiate athletic program
  • England Saxons, current name of that country's "A" (second-level) men's national rugby union team
  • Transylvanian Saxons, an ethnic German minority in Transylvania, Romania, who settled there from 12th century

See also

  • Saxån, a river in Sweden
  • Saxen, a district in Austria
  • Saxony (disambiguation)