List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

The Oldenburg Baby is the name given by the German media to Tim, an infant born in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany on 6 July 1997. Tim was born prematurely in the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy as the result of a failed late-term abortion. Doctors had expected the child would soon die and thus withheld treatment for 9 hours. He became a focus of the debate surrounding abortion, especially late-term abortion, and its legal and ethical consequences.

Ansgar Knauff is a German footballer who plays as a right winger for Borussia Dortmund.

Harald Range was a German jurist and was Attorney General of Germany.

Ulrich Steinfurth, better known as Uli Stein, was a German cartoonist.

Lucas Höler is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg.

Johannes Bitter is a German handball goalkeeper for HSV Hamburg and the German national team.

André Hahn is a German footballer who plays as a winger and forward for Bundesliga club FC Augsburg.

Emilie Christine Schroeder, also known as Christa Schroeder was one of Adolf Hitler’s personal secretaries before and during World War II.

Elke Twesten is a German politician for the CDU in Lower Saxony who switched parties from the Alliance '90/The Greens in 2017.

Oskar Fehr was a German ophthalmologist. Among his medical specialties were swimming pool conjunctivitis, tumours of the eye, and retinal detachment. He was an internationally renowned eye surgeon.