List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany
Susan Stahnke
Susan Stahnke is a German TV presenter. She was born in Hamelin.
Chris Dobson
Sir Christopher Martin Dobson was a British chemist, who was the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge.
Erhard Milch
Erhard Milch was a German Field Marshal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany following World War I. During World War II, he was in charge of aircraft production. He was convicted of war crimes during the Milch Trial held before the U.S. military court in 1947 and sentenced to life imprisonment; he was released in 1954.
Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann is a German Egyptologist.
Thomas Quasthoff
Thomas Quasthoff is a German bass-baritone. Quasthoff has a range of musical interest from Bach cantatas, to lieder, and solo jazz improvisations. Born with severe birth defects caused by thalidomide, Quasthoff is 1.34 m, and has phocomelia.
Anne Ross
Anne Ross is a German singer.
Hasnain Kazim
Hasnain Kazim is a German journalist and writer of Pakistani origin. He is a winner of the CNN Journalist Award in 2009.
Aloys Wobben
Aloys Wobben is a German billionaire businessman, engineer, and the founder and owner of the wind turbine company Enercon. Wobben is one of the 50 richest people in Germany, with a fortune estimated at Euro 4.78 billion, as of November 2020.
Tolga Ciğerci
Tolga Ciğerci is a Turkish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He represented Germany at under-19 and under-20 level, before switching his allegiance to Turkey.
Hans-Joachim Frey
Hans-Joachim Frey is a German cultural manager. From 1997 to 2007 he was Artistic Director of Operations and Director of Opera at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2007 to 2010 and general director at the Theater Bremen. In January 2013 he was responsible in the European Capital of Culture in Linz / Austria as a board director and artistic director of Liva, where he was also on the Bruckner House, the International Bruckner Festival and the clouds of sound.