Saskia

Saskia is a feminine name. There are at least two different sources of the name. One is of North German and Northeast Netherlands origin, where it originally meant "a Saxon woman" (metathesis of "Saxia"). The other, of Slavic origin, means "protector of mankind", and is evolved from "Sasha", a Slavic language short form of "Alexandra").^{[citation needed]}

Notable people with the name include:

Saskia Bartusiak (born 1982), German football player

Saskia Burmeister (born 1985), Australian actress
Saskia Clark, British sailor
Saskia Howard Clarke, contestant on the Big Brother British television series in 2005
Saskia Cohen-Tanugi (1959–2020), French actress and theatre director
Saskia de Brauw (born 1981), Dutch artist and model
Saskia de Coster (born 1976), Belgian writer
Saskia de Jonge (born 1986), Dutch swimmer
Saskia D’Onofrio (1924-1999), Finnish opera singer and actress, better known by her stage name Maaria Eira
Saskia Elemans (born 1977), Dutch cyclist
Saskia Esken, German politician
Saskia Estupinan, Ecuadorian doctor
Saskia Fischer, German actress
Saskia Garel (born 1977), Jamaican-Canadian actress
Saskia Giorgini, Dutch-Italian pianist
Saskia Hamilton (born 1967), American poet
Saskia Hampele, Australian actress
Saskia Hippe (born 1991), German volleyball player
Saskia Hölbling, Austrian choreographer and dancer
Saskia Holmkvist (born 1971), Swedish artist
Saskia Kosterink (born 1984), Dutch softball player
Saskia Laroo, Dutch jazz musician
Saskia Linssen (born 1970), Dutch model and actress
Saskia Mulder (born 1973), Dutch actress and younger sister of Karen Mulder
Saskia Noort (born 1967), Dutch author
Saskia Olde Wolbers (born 1971), Dutch video artist
Saskia Ozinga, Dutch activist
Saskia Ozols, American artist
Saskia Rao-de Haas (born 1971), Dutch cellist based in Delhi, India
Saskia Reeves, British actress
Saskia Rosendahl, German actress
Saskia Sassen (born 1947), Dutch-American sociologist
Saskia Loretta van Erven Garcia, Dutch-Colombian fencer
Saskia van Hintum (born 1970), Dutch volleyball player
Saskia van Rijswijk (born 1960), Dutch martial artist and actress
Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642), wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn
Saskia Vester, German actress
Saskia Wickham (born 1967), British actress
Saskia Wummelsdorf (born 1980), German badminton player

Fictional characters[]

Saskia Duncan, a character in the British soap opera EastEnders
Saskia the Dragonslayer, a character from the video game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Saskia Duncan, a character in the 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

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