List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Wolfgang Michels was a German singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.

Erich Topp was the third most successful of German U-Boat commanders of World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany. He sank 35 ships for a total of 197,460 gross register tons (GRT). After the war he served with the Federal German Navy, reaching the rank of Konteradmiral. He later served in NATO.

Stefan Schostok is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party and has been Mayor of Hanover from 11 October 2013 till 26 May 2019. From 2008 to January 2013 he served as a member of the Lower Saxony Legislative Assembly. During that time, he was elected chairman of the SPD group in the Lower Saxony Legislative Assembly (Landtag) in 2010, a position which he vacated in 2013.

Bora Dağtekin is a German screenwriter and filmmaker who has directed several of the most successful German-language films, notably Fack ju Göhte.

Ernest Courant was an American accelerator physicist and a fundamental contributor to modern large-scale particle accelerator concepts. His most notable discovery was his 1952 work with Milton S. Livingston and Hartland Snyder on the Strong focusing principle, a critical step in the development of modern particle accelerators like the synchrotron, though this work was preceded by that of Nicholas Christofilos.

Holger Glandorf is a German retired handball player.

Johannes Floors is a German Paralympic track and field athlete. A bilateral lower limb amputee, Floors competes in sprint events, competing in the T43 classification. He has won medals at both European and World Championship level and was part of the German Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay team that won gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.

Eike Onnen is a German high jumper.

Lotte Strauss, was a German-born author who wrote about her experiences as a Jewish woman in Nazi Germany.

Walter Warlimont was a German staff officer during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. He was released in 1954.