List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany
Bernhard Sprengel
Dr. Bernhard Sprengel was a German chocolate manufacturer and modern art collector.
Bernardo Johannes Bahlmann
Dieter Decker
Ulf Schirmer
Ulf Schirmer is a German conductor and opera house administrator.
Dieter Krone
Marco Weiss
Leyla Onur
Peter Beyer
Peter Beyer is a German Professor for Cell Biology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg. He is known as co-inventor of Golden Rice, together with Ingo Potrykus from the ETH Zurich.
Carlos Kloppenburg
Carlos Kloppenburg, O.F.M. was a German-born Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
Carl Schuchhardt
Carl Schuchhardt was a German archaeologist and museum director. For many years, he was the director of the pre-historic department of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. He was involved in numerous excavations, both in Europe and the Middle East, and contributed significantly to archaeological science. In his time, he was seen as Germany's most senior and accomplished prehistorian.