List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany
Regina Weber
Regina Weber is a German former individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 1984 Olympic All-around bronze medalist.
Herschel Grynszpan
Herschel Feibel Grynszpan was a German-born Jew of Polish heritage. The Nazis used his assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on 7 November 1938 in Paris as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, the antisemitic pogrom of 9–10 November 1938. Grynszpan was seized by the Gestapo after the Fall of France and brought to Germany; his fate remains unknown. It is generally assumed that he did not survive the Second World War, and he was declared dead in 1960. A photograph of a man resembling Grynszpan was cited in 2016 as evidence to support the claim that he was still alive in Bamberg, Germany, on 3 July 1946. He is the subject of The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan, a book by Jonathan Kirsch and the novels Champion, by Stephen Deutsch and Everyone Has Their Reasons by Joseph Matthews.
Merle Frohms
Merle Frohms is a German footballer. She is currently playing for Eintracht Frankfurt and the Germany national team.
Lars Becker
Lars Becker is a German film director, screenwriter, and crime writer.
Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Fero47
Ferhat Tuncel, known professionally as Fero47, is a German rapper and songwriter of Kurdish origin. Born in Turkey he moved to Germany at a young age, where he began posting musical videos on social media. In 2019, he signed to Epic Records and released his debut single "Jaja", which has reached at top 10 in the German singles chart. Fero released his debut album, 47 in late 2019.
Dora Ratjen
Heinrich Ratjen, born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or intersex. In some news reports, he was erroneously referred to as Hermann Ratjen and Horst Ratjen.
Sylvia Schenk
Sylvia Schenk is a German middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics for West Germany.
Eva Högl
Eva Alexandra Ingrid Irmgard Anna Högl is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2009. Högl has been a member of her party since 1987. From 2013 until 2020, she served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group. In May 2020 she became Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces of Germany.
Peter Urban
Peter Urban is a German musician and radio host.