List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

John Franklin III is an American football wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Florida State, Auburn and Florida Atlantic. He also played junior college football for East Mississippi, where he was featured prominently in the first season of Last Chance U. He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2018.

Ragna Schirmer is a German classical pianist.

Katharina Kuhlmann is a German model. From 2004 to 2007 she was a presenter on the motorsport show Tuning TV, and on other shows, on the German sports channel Deutsches Sportfernsehen. She currently appears mostly in motorsport-related catalog and calendar shoots, and actively promotes the sport of drift racing.

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary; and Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to Emperor Charles VI. She was renowned for her delicate beauty and also for being the mother of Empress Maria Theresa. She was the longest serving Holy Roman Empress.

Heinrich "Hein" Severloh was a soldier in the German 352nd Infantry Division stationed in Normandy in 1944. He became infamous for a memoir WN 62 – Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach Normandie, 6. Juni 1944, published in 2000. In the book, the auhors' claim that as a machine gunner, Severloh inflicted over 1,000 and possibly over 2,000 casualties to the American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. However, Severloh's claim is not viewed as credible by either US or German historians. Total US casualties from all sources along the five-mile length of Omaha Beach on D-Day are estimated at about 2,400.

Ernst Gräfenberg was a German-born physician and scientist. He is known for developing the intra-uterine device (IUD), and for his studies of the role of the woman's urethra in orgasm. The G-spot is named after him.

Corinna Miazga is a German politician. Born in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, she represents Alternative for Germany (AfD). Corinna Miazga has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg, was the husband of Queen Beatrix, and the Prince Consort of the Netherlands from her ascension on 30 April 1980 until his death from Parkinson's disease and heart and respiratory ailments in 2002.

Carl Peters, was a German colonial ruler, explorer, politician and author and a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa. A proponent of Social Darwinism and the Völkisch philosophy, his attitude towards the indigenous population made him one of the most controversial colonizers even during his lifetime.

Yasmin Fahimi is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2017. From January 2014 to December 2015 she was the general secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).