List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Hans Krebs was a German Army general of infantry who served during World War II. A career soldier, he served in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht. He served as the last Chief of Staff of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) during the final phase of the war. Krebs tried to open surrender negotiations with the Red Army; he committed suicide in the Führerbunker during the early hours of 2 May 1945.

Boris Herrmann is a German yachtsman.

Lukas Rieger is a German pop singer. He sings mainly in English.

Peter Struck was the German Minister of Defence under chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 2002 to 2005. A lawyer, Struck was a member of the Social Democratic Party.

Barış Atay Mengüllüoğlu (1981,Wilhelmshaven–) is a Turkish actor and a politician of the Workers' Party of Turkey (TIP)

Mark Christopher Field is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cities of London and Westminster from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2017 to 2019. A prominent supporter of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union during the 2016 referendum and of Jeremy Hunt's leadership bid in the 2019 contest, he left his post as a Foreign Office Minister when Boris Johnson's premiership began. He stood down from the British House of Commons at the 2019 general election.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann was a German serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of at least 24 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924 in Hanover, Germany.

Jan Korte is a German politician. Born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, he represents The Left. Jan Korte has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2005.

Katharina Marie Schubert is a German actress.

Frederick William Herschel was a German-born British astronomer and composer of music. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750–1848). Born in the Electorate of Hanover, William Herschel followed his father into the military band of Hanover, before emigrating to Great Britain in 1757 at the age of nineteen.