List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Christian Dürr is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017.

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal and war criminal during the Nazi era who served as Chief of the Armed Forces High Command – the office given to the commander and highest-ranking officer of the Nazi Germany Armed Forces during World War II. In this capacity, Keitel signed a number of criminal orders and directives that led to a war of unprecedented brutality and criminality.

Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann is a German actress.

Jürgen Goslar is a German actor and director.

Babak Rafati is a former Iranian-German football referee.

Ansgar Brinkmann is a retired German football player. He played two seasons in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt and Arminia Bielefeld. He also played 316 games in the 2. Bundesliga for nine different teams.

George I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.

Heinz Baumann is a German actor.

Trevor Rees-Jones is a German-born British former bodyguard who was badly injured in the car crash in Paris that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997. Because he suffered a serious head injury, he does not recall any details from the crash.

Julius Lothar Meyer was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the earliest versions of the periodic table of the chemical elements. Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and he had both worked with Robert Bunsen. Meyer never used his first given name, and was known throughout his life simply as Lothar Meyer.