Saskia
Saskia is a Dutch feminine given name of uncertain origin. It has been in use since the Middle Ages and is also in occasional use in the Anglosphere. One source word might be the Germanic sachs, meaning Saxon. Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of the painter Rembrandt, is the best-known bearer of the name.
Notable people with the name include:
- Saskia Alusalu, Estonian speed skater
- Saskia Bartusiak, German football player
- Saskia Burešová, Czech actress, presenter and TV announcer
- Saskia Burmeister, Australian actress
- Saskia Clark, British sailor
- Saskia Howard Clarke, contestant on the Big Brother British television series in 2005
- Saskia Cohen-Tanugi, French actress and theatre director
- Saskia de Brauw, Dutch artist and model
- Saskia de Coster, Belgian writer
- Saskia de Jonge, Dutch swimmer
- Saskia D'Onofrio, Finnish opera singer and actress, better known by her stage name Maaria Eira
- Saskia Elemans, Dutch cyclist
- Saskia Esken, German politician
- Saskia Fischer, German actress
- Saskia Garel, Jamaican-Canadian actress
- Saskia Giorgini, Dutch-Italian pianist
- Saskia Hamilton, American poet
- Saskia Hampele, Australian actress
- Saskia Hippe, German volleyball player
- Saskia Hölbling, Austrian choreographer and dancer
- Saskia Holleman, Dutch actress, lawyer and model
- Saskia Holmkvist, Swedish artist
- Saskia Horley, Australian cricketer
- Saskia Kosterink, Dutch softball player
- Saskia Laroo, Dutch jazz musician
- Saskia Linssen, Dutch model and actress
- Saskia Mulder, Dutch actress and younger sister of Karen Mulder
- Saskia Noort, Dutch author
- Saskia Olde Wolbers, Dutch video artist
- Saskia Ozinga, Dutch activist
- Saskia Ozols, American artist
- Saskia Rao-de Haas, Dutch cellist based in Delhi, India
- Saskia Reeves, British actress
- Saskia Rosendahl, German actress
- Saskia Sassen, Dutch-American sociologist
- Saskia Servini, British trampoline gymnast
- Saskia Loretta van Erven Garcia, Dutch-Colombian fencer
- Saskia van Hintum, Dutch volleyball player
- Saskia van Rijswijk, Dutch martial artist and actress
- Saskia Hübner, German-Danish furniture designer
- Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn
- Saskia Vester, German actress
- Saskia Wickham, British actress
- Saskia Wummelsdorf, German badminton player
Fictional characters
- Saskia de Merindol, a character in the Australian television miniseries Secret Bridesmaids' Business
- Saskia Duncan, a character in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Saskia the Dragonslayer, a character from the 2011 Polish video game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
- Saskia Duncan, a character in the 2012–2013 Australian TV drama Dance Academy
- Saskia Kupferberg, daughter of Dr. Elliot Kupferberg on The Sopranos
- Saskia the Unyielding, a Magic: The Gathering card
- Saskia Madding, a character in Charles de Lint's Newford series
- Frederika Mathilde Louisa Saskia, Queen of the Netherlands, character in Neal Stephenson's novel ''Termination Shock''