List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

August Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern, Prussian soldier, son of Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was born in Braunschweig in 1715, and entered the Prussian army in 1731, becoming colonel of an infantry regiment in 1739. He won great distinction at the battle of Hohenfriedberg as a major-general, and was promoted lieutenant-general in 1750.

August Wilhelm Schlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator and critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics. Schlegel was also the professor of Sanskrit in Continental Europe and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.

Anthony Günther, Count of Oldenburg was an Imperial Count and a member of the House of Oldenburg

Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden is a German economist, professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Mannheim, and has been president (Rektor) of Mannheim University since October 2012. Previously he was professor of Economics at the Département d'Econométrie et Economie Politique at the University of Lausanne.

Heinrich Ahasverus Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort was an East Prussian junker and aristocrat who became a member of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.