List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Erna Schlüter was a German operatic dramatic soprano.

Angela Denoke is a German opera singer (soprano).

Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain was the fourth child and third daughter of King George II of Great Britain and his wife Caroline of Ansbach.

Enno Patalas was a German film historian, collector, and expert film preservationist. A former head of the Munich Film Museum (1973–1994), his restorations include films such as Metropolis, M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder and Die Nibelungen, all directed by Fritz Lang. Patalas also restored the film The Battleship Potemkin for viewing at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005.

Janni-Luca Serra is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Holstein Kiel.

Jan Rosenthal is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for VfB Oldenburg.

Charles, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, reigned as Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1735 until his death.

Helmut Berding was a German historian.

Erwin Böhme, Pour le Mérite, was a German World War I fighter ace credited with 24 aerial victories. He was born in Holzminden, and grew into an athletic outdoorsman, becoming a proficient swimmer, ice skater, skier, and alpinist. After serving his mandatory military service in 1899, and earning a civil engineering degree, he moved to Switzerland for three years of mountaineering adventure. He then became interested in German East Africa, moving there in 1908 and taking up a six year employment contract on a timber plantation in Tanganyika.

Leopold Gmelin was a German chemist. Gmelin was professor at the University of Heidelberg among other things, he worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test.