List of people from Braunschweig

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Kurt Ahrens, Jr. (born 1940), racing driver

Karl Andree (1808–1875), geographer

Richard Andree (1835–1912), geographer

Augustus William (1715–1781), Duke of Brunswick-Bevern

Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764–1788), Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Theodore Bachenheimer (1923–1944), soldier

Joachim Bäse (born 1939), German international footballer

Ewald Banse (1883–1953), geographer

Cornelius Ludewich Bartels (died 1804), Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast

Johann Christian Martin Bartels (1769–1836), mathematician

Anton August Beck (1713–1787), engraver

Bibiana Beglau (born 1971), actress

Levin August, Count von Bennigsen (1745–1826), general

Hans Berr (1890–1917), soldier

Helmut Beumann (1912–1995), historian

Ingo Beyer von Morgenstern (born 1955), engineer

Klaus-Dieter Bieler (born 1949), Olympic athlete

August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius (1845–1912), ornithologist

Carl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862), botanist

Oliver Blume (born 1968), manager

Bettina Blumenberg (born 1962), field hockey player

Jacob Bobart the Elder (1599–1680), botanist and first head gardener of Oxford Botanic Garden

Wolfgang Bochow (born 1944), badminton player

Otto Bock (born 1881), athlete

Johann Joachim Christoph Bode (1731–1793), translator

Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Eduard Bornhardt (1864–1946), geologist

Bosse (born 1980), rock musician

Hartmut Bossel (born 1935), environmental scientist

Hermann Bote (c. 1450–c. 1520), chronicler

Detlef Bothe (born 1965), actor and film director

Wilhelm Bracke (1842–1880), one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany, predecessor of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Jack Brand (born 1953), Canadian international footballer

Wolfgang Brase (born 1939), footballer

Rudolf Maria Breithaupt (1873–1945), composer

Ingrid Bruckert (born 1952), field hockey player

Bernd Buchheister (born 1962), footballer

Christian Heinrich Bünger (1782–1842), surgeon

Johann Gottlieb Buhle (1763–1821), philosopher

Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst (1919–1993), military officer and member of the German resistance.

Caroline of Brunswick (1768–1821), Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom

Lorenz S. Cederbaum (born 1946), physical chemist

Charles I (1713–1780), Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Charles II (1804–1873), Duke of Brunswick

Alix von Cotta (1842–1931), promoter of women's education

Stephan Dabbert (born 1958), agricultural economist

Ewald Daub (1889–1946), cinematographer

Simson Alexander David (1755–1813), writer

Georg von der Decken (1836–1898), politician

Richard Dedekind (1831–1916), mathematician

Carl Ferdinand Degen (1766–1825), mathematician

Edward Degener (1809–1890), politician

Jaro Deppe (born 1948), footballer

Dirk Dirksen (1937–2006), music promoter

Werner Ditzinger (1928–2016), swimmer

DJ Pari (born 1975), musician

Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn (1838–1913), zoologist

Wolfgang Dramsch (born 1949), footballer

Carl Georg Oscar Drude (1852–1933), botanist

Paul Drude (1863–1906), physicist, developed the Drude model.

Johann Philipp Du Roi (1741–1785), botanist

Julius Düker (born 1996), footballer

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André Ehrenberg (born 1972), Olympic canoer

Jochen H.H. Ehrich (born 1946), pediatric doctor

Justin Eilers (born 1988), footballer

Jusuf El-Domiaty (born 1990), basketball player

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691–1750), Holy Roman Empress

Lars Ellmerich (born 1961), footballer

Christine Enghaus (1815–1910), actress

Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914–1987), Prince of Hanover

Oskar Fehr (1871–1959), ophthalmologist

Frank E. Fesq (1840–1920), soldier

Ferdinand Albert I (1636–1687), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Karl Fiehler (1895–1969), politician

Emil Fischer (1838–1914), opera singer

Florian Floto (born 1988), Olympic archer

Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim (1801–1869), physicist

Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1771–1815), leader of the Black Brunswickers.

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (1900–1988), actor

Werner Fürbringer (1888–1982), U-boat commander

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), mathematician

Hans Friedrich Geitel (1855–1923), physicist

Johan Georg Geitel (1683–1771), painter

George William of Hanover (1915–2006), Prince of Hanover

Gerwin von Hameln (c. 1415–1496), cleric and book collector

Willy Giesemann (born 1937), German international footballer

Werner Goeritz (1892–1958), general

Moritz Göttel (born 1993), footballer

Nico Granatowski (born 1991), footballer

Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst (1777–1857), entomologist

Michael Green (born 1972), field hockey player

Wolfgang Grobe (born 1956), footballer

Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964), Prime minister of the German Democratic Republic

Hansadutta Swami (born 1941), guru

Otto Harder (1892–1956), German international footballer

Robert Hartig (1839–1901), mycologist

Albert Heine (1867–1949), actor

Adolph Henke (1775–1843), physician

Kurt Heyser (1894–1974), general

Karl Gustav Himly (1772–1837), surgeon

Robert Homburg (1848–1912), politician

Harry Hoppe (1894–1969), general

Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn (1774–1848), physician

Jannes Horn (born 1997), footballer

August Howaldt (1809–1883), engineer

Georg Ferdinand Howaldt (1802–1883), sculptor

Hermann Heinrich Howaldt (1841–1891), sculptor

Friedrich Huch (1873–1913), writer

Ricarda Huch (1864–1947), historian and writer

Rainer Hunold (born 1949), actor

Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1691–1765), composer

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Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813), zoologist

Jette Joop (born 1968), fashion designer

Steffen Jürgens (born 1967), actor

Henning Kagermann (born 1947), physicist

Kai Karsten (born 1968), Olympic sprinter

Katrin Kauschke (born 1971), field hockey player

Herbert Kirchhoff (1911–1988), art director

Sascha Kirschstein (born 1980), footballer

Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann (1777–1831), writer

Frederik Theodor Kloss (1802–1876), painter

August Wilhelm Knoch (1742–1818), naturalist

Robin Knoche (born 1992), footballer

Gustav Knuth (1901–1987), actor

Konrad Koch (1846–1911), football pioneer

Özkan Koçtürk (born 1974), footballer

Louis Köhler (1820–1886), composer

Leo von König (1871–1944), painter

Oliver Koletzki (born 1974), music producer

Charles Konig (1774–1851), naturalist

Joachim von Kortzfleisch (1890–1945), general

Nina Kraft (born 1968), triathlete

Uwe Krause (born 1955), footballer

Gerard Krefft (1830–1881), zoologist

Louis Krevel (1801–1876), painter

Alfred Kubel (1909–1999), politician, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony

Wolfgang Kubicki (born 1952), politician

Christiane Kubrick (born 1932), actress and painter

Jens Kujawa (born 1965), basketball player

Karl Lachmann (1793–1851), philologist

Heike Lätzsch (born 1973), field hockey player

August Lafontaine (1758–1831), author of sentimental didactic novels once immensely popular, born and brought up in the city

Christophe Lambert (born 1985), judoka

Gerhard Landmann (1904–1933), SS man

Paul Lehmann (1884–1964), palaeographer

Katharina Lehnert (born 1994), tennis player

Rudolf Lindau (1888–1977), politician

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Thilo Maatsch (1900–1983), artist

Alexander Madlung (born 1982), German international footballer

Willy Maertens (1893–1967), actor

Günter Mast (1927–2011), businessman

Walter Mattern (1920–1974), SS-Hauptsturmführer

Heike Matthiesen (born 1969), classical guitarist

Heinz Mayr (born 1935), Olympic racewalker

MC Rene (born 1976), rapper

Rosine Elisabeth Menthe (1663–1701), wife of Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Florian Meyer (born 1968), football referee

Johann Heinrich Meyer (1812–1863), publisher

Klaus Meyer (1937–2014), footballer

Hugo Miehe (1875–1932), botanist

Nils Mittmann (born 1979), basketball player

Tomo in der Mühlen (born 1961), DJ and producer

Gustav von der Mülbe (1831–1917), general

Müller Brothers, a noted 19th-century string quartet composed of four brothers.

Günther Müller-Stöckheim (1913–1943), U-boat commander

Adolph Nehrkorn (1841–1916), ornithologist

Marie Neurath (1898–1986), graphic designer

Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (1793–1846), astronomer

Walter Nicolai (1873–1947), spy

Wilhelm Nienstädt (1784–1862), educator

Carl Theodor Ottmer (1800–1843), architect

Eva Pagels (born 1954), field hockey player

Melanie Paschke (born 1970), Olympic sprinter

Kurd Peters (1914–1957), soldier

Marc Pfitzner (born 1984), footballer

Jens Pieper (born 1968), Olympic archer

Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907), painter

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Walter Ramme (born 1895), Olympic swimmer

Fritz Randow (born 1952), rock drummer

Tobias Rau (born 1981), German international footballer

Gustav von Rauch (1774–1841), general

Paul Rehkopf (1872–1949), actor

Wilhelmine Reichard (1788–1848), balloonist

Daniel Reiche (born 1988), footballer

Kurt Reidemeister (1893–1971), mathematician

Frank Rennicke (born 1964), singer and far-right political activist

Arnold Rimpau (1856–1936), entrepreneur

Johannes Runge (1878–1949), Olympic athlete

Ernst Sagebiel (1892–1970), architect

Michael Scheike (born 1963), footballer

Heinz-Günter Scheil (born 1962), footballer

Galka Scheyer (1889–1945), painter

Dieter Schidor (1948–1987), actor

Gudrun Scholz (born 1940), field hockey player

Eberhard Schrader (1836–1908), orientalist

Dennis Schröder (born 1993), NBA basketball player, currently with the Atlanta Hawks.

Norbert Schultze (1911–2002), composer

Christian Schwarzer (born 1969), handball player

Edda Seippel (1919–1993), actress

Emil Selenka (1842–1902), zoologist

Paul Sievert (1895–1988), racewalker

Hans Sommer (1837–1922), composer and mathematician

Jan Spoelder (born 1973), footballer

Louis Spohr (1784–1859), composer

Alfred Staats (born 1891), Olympic gymnast

Gustav Steinmann (1856–1929), geologist and paleontologist

Bartholomaeus Stockmann (c. 1550–1609), composer

Wenzel Storch (born 1961), film director and producer

Stephanie Storp (born 1968), Olympic shot putter

Delphin Strungk (c. 1600–1694), composer and organist

Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640–1700), composer and violinist

Gustav Teichmüller (1832–1888), philosopher

Mechthildis Thein (1888–1959), actress

Ulrich Thein (1930–1995), actor

Phillip Tietz (born 1997), footballer

Louis Tronnier (1897–1952), general

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Constantin Uhde (1836–1905), architect

Lette Valeska (1885–1985), artist

Conrad Varrentrapp (1844–1911), historian

Hans Waldmann (1922–1945), fighter pilot

Gerd Wedler (1929–2008), chemist

Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1758–1828), painter

Reinhard Wendemuth (born 1948), Olympic rower

Franz Wenzler (1893–1942), film director

Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (1770–1840), naturalist

Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (1802–1841), zoologist

Rudolf Wilke (1873–1908), caricaturist

William of Brunswick (1830–1884), Duke of Brunswick

Hermann Winkelmann (1849–1912), Heldentenor

Frederick Albert Winsor (1763–1830), inventor

Franz Winter (1861–1930), archaeologist

Ludwig Winter (1843–1930), architect

Nils Wogram (born 1972), musician

Adolf Wolf (1899–1973), general

Johann Zanger (1557–1607), legal scholar

H. Dieter Zeh (born 1932), physicist

Albrecht Zimmermann (1860–1931), botanist

Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken (1770–1856), entomologist

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Leopold August Abel (1717–1794), violinist

Franz Abt (1819–1885), composer

Albert I (1236–1279), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Albert of Prussia (1837–1906), Regent of Brunswick

Friedrich Alpers (1901–1944), politician

Anthony Ulrich (1633–1714), Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696–1762), Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Johann Arndt (1555–1621), theologian

Auctor (c. 5th century), patron saint of Braunschweig

Augusta of Great Britain (1737–1813), Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784), composer

Fritz Bauer (1903–1968), judge and prosecutor, who played an essential role in starting the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.

Johann Georg Beck (1676–1722), engraver

Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853–1923), chemist and inventor of the Beckmann thermometer

Oswald Berkhan (1834–1917), physician

Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), poet

Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809–1870), zoologist and founder of the Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Braunschweig.

Hermann Blumenau (1819–1899), founder of Blumenau, Brazil.

Wilhelm von Bode (1845–1929), art historian

Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892), writer

Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976), zoologist

Rasmus Borowski (born 1974), composer and actor

Maria Antonia Branconi (1746–1793), royal mistress of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Heinrich Brandes (1803–1868), painter

Adolf Breymann (1839–1878), sculptor

Franz Ernst Brückmann (1697–1753), mineralogist

Brun I (c. 975–c. 1010), Count of Brunswick

Bruno (died 880), Duke of Saxony

Victor von Bruns (1812–1883), surgeon

Heinrich Büssing (1843–1929), industrialist

Johannes Bugenhagen (1485–1558), theologian

Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746–1818), educator and writer

Charles William Ferdinand (1735–1806), Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968), biochemist

Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell (1744–1816), chemist

Walter Dexel (1890–1973), painter

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Johann Erdwin Christoph Ebermaier (1768–1825), physician

Johann Arnold Ebert (1723–1795), writer

Carl Friedrich Echtermeier (1845–1910), sculptor

Egbert II (c. 1060–1090), Count of Brunswick and Margrave of Meissen

Joachim Nicolas Eggert (1779–1813), composer

Albert Eichhorn (1856–1926), theologian

Frauke Eickhoff (born 1967), judoka

Manfred Eigen (born 1927), Nobel laureate in chemistry

Theodore Eisfeld (1816–1882), conductor

Gottlieb Elster (1867–1917), sculptor

Theodor Engelbrecht (1813–1892), pomologist

Ernest Augustus (1887–1953), Duke of Brunswick

Nadine Ernsting-Krienke (born 1974), field hockey player

Johann Joachim Eschenburg (1743–1820), produced the first complete German translation of William Shakespeare's plays.

Hansjörg Felmy (1931–2007), actor

Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721–1792), field marshal

Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796–1874), oboist, composer, and clarinetist

Alexander Fesca (1820–1849), composer

Otto Finsch (1839–1917), explorer

Christoph Bernhard Francke (c. 1660–1729), painter

Frederick Augustus (1740–1805), Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Oels

Friedrich Traugott Friedemann (1793–1853), educator

Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1901–1983), mathematician

Theodor Geiger (1891–1952),sociologist

Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816–1872), writer

Gertrude of Brunswick (c. 1060–1117), Margravine of Meissen

Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), merchant

Johann Glandorp (1501–1564), educator

Gerhard Glogowski (born 1943), politician, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony

Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), composer

Uwe Gronostay (1939–2008), composer

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1856–1928), politician

Johann Oswald Harms (1643–1708), painter and engraver

Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783), composer

Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig (1743–1831), entomologist

Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke (1804–1872), theologian and historian

Henry the Lion (1129–1195), Duke of Saxony and Bavaria

Henry V (c. 1173–1227), Count Palatine of the Rhine

Henry the Peaceful (1411–1473), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

August Hermann (1835–1906), physical education pioneer

Levi Herzfeld (1810–1884), rabbi and historian

Erik Hesselberg (1914–1972), writer and artist

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874), poet and author of Das Lied der Deutschen.

Israel Jacobson (1768–1828), merchant and Jewish reformer.

Heinrich Jasper (1875–1945), politician, Prime Minister of Brunswick

Friedrich Jeckeln (1895–1946), SS and police leader

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem (1709–1789), theologist

John Albert of Mecklenburg (1857–1920), Regent of Brunswick

Wolfgang Joop (born 1944), fashion designer

Robert Jordan (1885–1970), writer

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Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739), composer

Inge Kilian (born 1935), Olympic high jumper

Dietrich Klagges (1891–1971), politician

Klaus von Klitzing (born 1943), Nobel laureate in physics

Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1814–1904), chemist

Gottfried Michael Koenig (born 1926), composer

Peter Joseph Krahe (1758–1840), architect

Nicolette Krebitz (born 1972), actress

Johann Kusser (1660–1727), composer

Johann Anton Leisewitz (1752–1806), poet

Ludwig Lemcke (1816–1884), philologist and literary historian

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), writer and philosopher

Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874–1925), illustrator

Henry Litolff (1818–1891), composer

Louis Rudolph (1671–1735), Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Friedrich Lübker (1811–1867), educator and philologist

Rudi Lüttge (1922–2016), Olympic racewalker

Matilda of England (1156–1189), Duchess of Saxony

Marie of Baden (1782–1808), Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Erwin Otto Marx (1893–1980), engineer

Jakob Mauvillon (1743–1794), historian and writer

Jürgen Moll (1939–1968), footballer

Otto IV of Brunswick (1175–1218), Holy Roman Emperor

Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716–1801), Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Helga Pilarczyk (1926–2011), operatic soprano

Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), chemist

Werner Pöls (1926–1989), historian

Karl Pohlig (1864–1928), conductor

Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910), writer

Hans Reinowski (1900–1977), politician, publisher and writer

Hermann Riedel (1847–1913), composer

Friedrich Adolf Riedesel (1738–1800), commander during the American Revolutionary War

Anna Roleffes (c. 1600–1663), one of the last women executed as a witch in Braunschweig.

Rudolph Augustus (1627–1704), Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Michael Ruetz (born 1940), photographer

Nina Ruge (born 1956), TV presenter

Francesco Carlo Rusca (1693–1769), painter

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Hermann Schacht (1814–1864), pharmacist and botanist

Gerhard Schrader (1903–1990), chemist

Katharina Marie Schubert (born 1977), actress

Gustav Anton von Seckendorff (1775–1823), writer

Hans-Christoph Seebohm (1903–1967), Vice-Chancellor of Germany

Otto Sprengel (1852–1915), surgeon

Henry E. (1797–1871) and C.F. Theodore Steinway (1825–1889), piano makers

Stendhal (1783–1842), writer and politician

Albert Sukop (1913–1993), German international footballer

Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord (1736–1821), churchman

Heinrich Emil Timerding (1873–1945), mathematician

Fate Tola (born 1987), long-distance runner

Ludger Tom Ring the Younger (1522–1584), painter

Julius Tröger (1862–1942), chemist

Kaspar Ulenberg (1549–1617), theologian

August Ferdinand von Veltheim (1741–1801), mineralogist

Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892–1980), Duchess of Brunswick

Alfred Vierkandt (1867–1953), sociologist

Friedrich Vieweg (1761–1835), publisher

Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer (1812–1878), optician

Heinz Waaske (1924–1995), camera designer

Mitchell Weiser (born 1994), footballer

Ehm Welk (1884–1966), journalist

George Westermann (1810–1879), publisher

Arend Friedrich Wiegmann (1770–1853), pharmacist

William V (1748–1806), Prince of Orange

Olaf Willums (1886–1967), painter and printmaker

Johannes Winkler (1897–1947), rocket pioneer

Georg Wittig (1897–1987), Nobel laureate in chemistry

Werner Zahn (1890–1971), bobsledder and World War I flying ace

Luminita Zaituc (born 1968), Olympic long-distance runner

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743–1815), geographer and zoologist

Georg Heinrich Zincke (1692–1769), jurist