List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Wilhelm Bahlburg was a German politician of the German Party (DP) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Georg Ludwig Carius was a German chemist born in Barbis, in the Kingdom of Hanover. He studied under Friedrich Wöhler and was assistant to Robert Bunsen for 6 years. He was Director of the Marburger Chemical Institute of Philipps University of Marburg from 1865. He is noted for the studies of oxidation for which he developed a method involving high temperature digestion in a sealed tube. Heavy wall sealed tubes, as used for digestion or thermolysis are referred to as "Carius tubes". He also wrote a textbook on polybasic acids.

Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann was a German geographer and zoologist.

Friedrich Tietjen was a German astronomer.

Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst, sometimes Jean Louis Charles or Carl, was a German entomologist, herpetologist, and zoologist.

Christoph Gudermann was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence, and for being the teacher of Karl Weierstrass, who was greatly influenced by Gudermann's course on elliptic functions in 1839–1840, the first such course to be taught in any institute.

Johann Joachim Quantz was a German composer, flutist and flute maker of the late Baroque period. He composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, and wrote On Playing the Flute, a treatise on flute performance. His works were known and appreciated by Bach, Haydn and Mozart.

Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine, was born at Emden, where his father, Menso Alting (1541–1612), was minister.