List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Adolf Hurwitz was a German mathematician who worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory.

Karl Hasselmann was a German cinematographer who worked on over a hundred films during a long career. He collaborated with Ewald André Dupont on a number of productions for Gloria Film such as Whitechapel. He worked on eleven films with Karl Grune.

Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German entomologist and zoologist.

Irma von Cube was a German-American screenwriter. She began as an actress and a writer for films in Germany in the early 1930s, and continued when she arrived in the United States in 1938.

Alfred Rahlfs was a German Biblical scholar. He was a member of the history of religions school. He is known for his edition of the Septuagint published in 1935.

Johann Zanger was a German jurist, professor of law at Wittenberg University.

Theodor Sparkuhl was a German-born cinematographer with 140 movies to his credit.

Karl Korsch was a German Marxist theoretician and political philosopher. Along with György Lukács, Korsch is considered to be one of the major figures responsible for laying the groundwork for Western Marxism in the 1920s.