List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Walter Momper is a German politician and former Governing Mayor of Berlin. Whilst Governing Mayor, he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1989/90. He was at the opening of the Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989 and, on 3 October 1990, became the first mayor of a reunited Berlin.

Max Windmüller, nickname "Cor", was a German member of the Dutch resistance. He was forced to flee from the National Socialists to the Netherlands with his parents because of their Jewish faith. He joined the Westerweel Group there and saved the lives of many Jewish children and young people. The members of the Westerweel group organized identification papers, hiding places and escape opportunities, especially for German-Jewish children and young people who had fled from Germany. In this group, Jews and members of other faiths worked together to save the Jews from persecution. Such cooperation was not a matter of course in the Netherlands. Windmüller personally saved around 100 young Jews, and the entire Westerweel group saved 393 Jews. In July 1944, the Gestapo stormed a secret meeting of the Resistance group in Paris in which Windmüller and other members of the Jewish resistance were arrested. They were then taken to Gestapo headquarters where they were interrogated and tortured. When the liberation of the camp by Allied troops was imminent, Windmüller was deported from occupied France with the last transport. On April 21, 1945, he was shot by a Schutzstaffel member.

Kurt Heissmeyer was a Nazi SS physician involved in medical experimentation on concentration camp inmates including children.

Max Richter is a German-born British composer and pianist. He works within postminimalism and in the meeting of contemporary classical and alternative popular musical styles. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the Royal Academy of Music, and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy.

Imke Susann Onnen is a German athlete specialising in the high jump. She won a bronze medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade.

Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle, was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain, and mother of George II. The union with her first cousin was a marriage of state, arranged by her father George William, her father-in-law the Elector of Hanover, and her mother-in-law, Electress Sophia of Hanover, first cousin of King Charles II of England. She is best remembered for her alleged affair with Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck that led to her being imprisoned in the Castle of Ahlden for the last thirty years of her life.

Yari Otto is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Eintracht Braunschweig.

Michael Rensing is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He has also played for Bayern Munich II, Bayern Munich, 1. FC Köln, Bayer Leverkusen II, and Bayer Leverkusen.

Riem Hussein is a German international football referee. She has been officiating internationally since 2009.

Carsten Günter Erich Sieling is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 2015 until 2019. His successor is Andreas Bovenschulte.