List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Peter Suhrkamp was a German publisher and founder of the Suhrkamp Verlag.

Klaus Meine is a German vocalist, songwriter and instrumentalist best known as the frontman of the heavy metal band Scorpions. He and guitarist Rudolf Schenker are the only two members of the group to appear on every Scorpions album, though he did not join the band until 1969, four years after they were founded. Meine was placed at No. 22 on Hit Parader's Top Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time list in 2006.

Belit Nejat Onay is a German politician of Turkish origin for the Alliance 90/The Greens. He was elected Mayor of Hanover in 2019, and took office on 22 November.

Julius of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1568 until his death. From 1584, he also ruled over the Principality of Calenberg. By embracing the Protestant Reformation, establishing the University of Helmstedt, and introducing a series of administrative reforms, Julius was one of the most important Brunswick dukes in the early modern era.

Gitta Connemann is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2002.

Sebastian Schipper is a German actor and filmmaker.

Michael Stolle is a German pole vaulter.

Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg was an influential German businessman and politician. An important figure in nationalist politics in Germany for the first few decades of the twentieth century, Hugenberg became the country's leading media proprietor during the interwar period. As leader of the German National People's Party he was instrumental in helping Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany and served in his first cabinet in 1933, hoping to control Hitler and use him as his "tool." Those plans backfired, and by the end of 1933 Hugenberg had been pushed to the sidelines. Although Hugenberg continued to serve as a "guest" member of the Reichstag until 1945, he wielded no political influence.

Holger Stahlknecht is a German lawyer and politician of the CDU who was the State Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of Minister-President Reiner Haseloff of Saxony-Anhalt from 2011 until 2020.

Marcel Halstenberg is a German professional footballer who plays for Bundesliga side RB Leipzig. In addition to playing to the left-back position, he plays in the centre-back position.