List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

David Heinrich Hoppe was a German pharmacist, botanist, entomologist and physician. He is remembered for contributions made to the study of alpine flora.

Stefan Czapsky, A.S.C. is a German-born Ukrainian-American cinematographer, best known for his acclaimed collaborations with director Tim Burton on films like Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, and Ed Wood, for which he won several film critics' awards.

Georg Meissner was a German anatomist and physiologist born in Hanover.

Erich Vagts was a German politician. In 1945 he was the 1st President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. After finishing his final exams at the German secondary school Erich Vagts became a soldier during the First World War. In 1919 he began his studies of law and political science at the University of Tübingen and the University of Kiel. Vagts did not finish his studies but became director of a consortium of farmers in Güstrow which was typical for Germany in the time after the First World War. After his return to Bremen in 1925 Vagts began his political career. He became chief executive officer of the German National People's Party, the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP). From 1928 Vagts belonged to the Bürgerschaft of Bremen. In 1931 Erich Vagts became chairman of the DNVP and two years later he was elected to the position of a senator for the health resort in the city state of Bremen.

Theodor Meyer was a German mathematician, a student of Ludwig Prandtl, and a founder of the scientific discipline now known as compressible flow or gas dynamics.

Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes was a German archaeologist and botanist specialist of Aizoaceae (Mesembryanthemaceae).