List of Famous people born in Lower Saxony, Germany

Thomas Christian Südhof, ForMemRS, is a German-American biochemist known for his study of synaptic transmission. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and by courtesy in Neurology, and in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg, shortened in and best known as August Heisenberg, was a German Byzantinist. His son was Werner Heisenberg.

Harry Bresslau was a German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments. He was born in Dannenberg/Elbe and died in Heidelberg.

Karl Gustav Himly was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist from Braunschweig.

Paul Gottlieb Werlhof was a German physician and poet who was a native of Helmstedt. 

Hermann Lübbe is a German philosopher. He is considered a member of the Ritter School.