List of sons and daughters of the city of Braunschweig
The following people were born in Braunschweig . This list, which incidentally does not claim to be complete, does not take into account whether they later had their sphere of activity in Braunschweig.
See also:
- List of people connected with Braunschweig (people who were not born in Braunschweig, but are connected to the city through their work)
- List of honorary citizens of Braunschweig
- Citizen's Medal of the City of Braunschweig (with list of those awarded the medal)
A.
- Bernhard Abeken (1826–1901), writer, lawyer and national liberal politician
- August Christian Andreas Abel (1751–1834), violinist, court musician and painter
- Carl Abel (1748–1795), musician and painter
- Wilhelm-Albrecht Achilles (* 1952), lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Kurt Ahrens (* 1940), automobile racing driver
- Maike Albath (* 1966), literary critic, author and journalist
- Albrecht von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1725–1745), Prussian major general
- Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Alers (1811–1891), forestry expert, inventor of the wing saw, writer and founder of the Clarabad in Bad Helmstedt
- Karl Andree (1808–1875), geographer and publicist
- Richard Andree (1835–1912), geologist, geographer and folklorist
- Georg Anschütz (1886–1953), psychologist
- Otto Antrick (1909–1984), political scientist
- Hermann Apfel (1807-1892), Lutheran theologian
- Adolf Aronheim (1818–1880), lawyer and politician
- Adolf Aronheim (1881–1943), football player and Nazi victim
- Helene Aronheim (1858–1943), Nazi victim
- Max Aronheim (1849–1905), lawyer and entrepreneur
- Thomas Arslan (* 1962), German-Turkish film director and screenwriter
- Wilhelm Assmann (1800–1875), historian, educator and politician
- August Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1715–1781), Prussian lieutenant general
- Auguste Karoline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1764–1788), Princess of Württemberg
B.
- Georg Baesecke (1876–1951), Germanist, classical philologist, NSDAP member, focus on runology during the Nazi era, renewed professorship after denazification
- Bettina Bähr-Losse (* 1967), politician
- Ferdinand Bamberger (1809–1855), classical philologist and teacher
- Oskar Bangemann (1882 - after 1942), wood engraver and university professor
- Ewald Banse (1883–1953), geographer, ethnologist, orientalist and writer, NSDAP member, moderate early work, publication of numerous racist writings in the Nazi era, development of a "military science"
- Tobias Barkschat (* 1991), racing cyclist
- Ernst Daniel August Bartels (1778–1838), physician
- Gustav Adolf Barthel (1819–1898), Brunswick court painter
- Karl Barthel (1817–1853), literary historian, teacher and theologian
- Helmut Barz (* 1969), author
- Joachim Bäse (* 1939), former soccer player (1959–1973, libero and midfielder) and one of the "record players" at Eintracht Braunschweig
- Johann Bäse (born March 7, 1790 - † August 7, 1837 in Madrid), painter and art collector
- Hermann Basse (1882–1933), politician
- Anton August Beck (1713–1787), engraver
- Konrad Becker († 1588), Protestant theologian
- Heinrich Beckurts (1855–1929), chemist and university professor
- Karl Beckurts (1894–1952), armaments manager
- Marko Beens (* 1970), sports manager
- Friedrich Beese (* 1943), forest scientist
- Bibiana Beglau (* 1971), actress
- Rudolph August Behrens (around 1700–1748), physician
- Adolf Beiß (1900–1981), Germanist, writer and university lecturer at the PH Braunschweig
- Otto Benecke (1896–1964), cultural politician
- Werner Benecke (* 1964), historian
- Levin August von Bennigsen (1745–1826), Russian general of German origin
- Ernst Bergfeld (1885–1969), writer, civil servant and librarian
- Florian Bernschneider (* 1986), politician (FDP), youngest member of the Bundestag in the 17th electoral term of the German Bundestag
- Gottlieb Bertrand (1775–1813), writer
- Fritz Bettelhäuser (* 1942), trade unionist, artist and metal worker
- Helmut Beumann (1912–1995), historian
- Käthe Bewig (1881–1957), painter
- Christian Andreas von Biel (1740–1805), lawyer and landlord
- Gottlieb von Biel (1792–1831), Mecklenburg landlord
- Johann Christian Biel (1687–1745), Lutheran theologian
- Wilhelm von Biel (1789–1876), Mecklenburg landlord
- Klaus-Dieter Bieler (* 1949), track and field athlete
- Julius Georg Bierbaum (1761–1844), merchant and member of parliament
- Henning Binnewies (* 1950), politician, Lord Mayor of Goslar (SPD)
- Annette Birschel (* 1960), journalist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Bitter (1798–1870), court official and cabinet director, Duke Charles II of Braunschweig
- Jürgen Blänsdorf (* 1936), classical philologist
- Rudolf Blasius (1842–1907), doctor, bacteriologist and ornithologist, author of, among others, The Birds of the Duchy of Braunschweig and the Adjacent Areas and The State of Health of the Cities of the Duchy of Braunschweig in the years 1887/88
- Wilhelm Blasius (1845–1912), ornithologist and professor at the TH Braunschweig
- Dieter Blötz (1931–1987), SPD politician and Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service
- Carl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862), German-Dutch botanist, explorer of the Indonesian flora
- Oliver Blume (* 1968), manager
- Bettina Blumenberg (born November 20, 1962), hockey player
- Hannelore Blumenberg (* 1934), hockey player
- Wolfgang Bochow (1944–2017), badminton player
- Petrus Bockelmann (1505–1576), Lutheran theologian and student of Martin Luther, pastor in Husum
- Ingo Bockler (* 1964), cook
- Johann Joachim Christoph Bode (1731–1793), musician, writer and translator; Friend of Lessing
- Friedrich Boden (1870–1947), lawyer and representative of Braunschweig at the Federal Council in Berlin
- Hans Constantin Boden (1893–1970), economic manager
- Gerhard Bohne (1902–1981), lawyer, SS-Hauptsturmführer, legal organizer of the central office charged with carrying out the National Socialist “euthanasia” murders (“Aktion T4”)
- Ludwig Bollmann (1773–1820), Lutheran theologian, general and city superintendent in Braunschweig
- Kurt Borchers (1901–1970), forester and administrative officer
- Michael Borgolte (* 1948), historian
- Johann Heinrich Carl Bornhardt (1774–1843), composer, pianist, guitarist and music teacher
- Wilhelm Bornhardt (1864–1946), mining clerk and mining historian
- Wilhelm Bornstedt (1905–1987), grammar school teacher and from 1974 to 1983 city caretaker of Braunschweig
- Robert Borrmann (1870–1943), pathologist at the Ducal Hospital (Celler Strasse)
- Axel Bosse (* 1980), guitarist, songwriter and rock singer
- Hermann Bote (around 1450 - around 1520), Middle Low German chronicler and poet of political pamphlets
- Heinz Both (1924–2010), musician, band leader and music teacher
- Detlef Bothe (* 1965), actor
- Henning Brabandt (around 1550–1604), lawyer, Brunswick mayor and ducal court procurator
- Wilhelm Bracke (1842–1880), politician, publisher and publicist; significantly involved in the founding of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP), the forerunner of the SPD
- Jörgen Bracker (* 1936), historian and archaeologist
- Wolfgang Brase (* 1939), football player
- Hermann Bräss (1738–1797), Protestant pastor and newspaper editor
- Reiner Braun (* 1952), journalist, activist and historian
- Rudolf Maria Breithaupt (1873–1945), music writer, composer and piano teacher
- Wolfgang Bremer (* 1953), naval officer, most recently rear admiral of the German Navy and commander of the logistics center of the German armed forces
- Friedrich Bretschneider (1884–1952), politician
- August Brinkmann (1863–1923), classical philologist and university professor
- Matthias Brodowy (* 1972), cabaret artist
- Ingrid Bruckert (* 1952), hockey player
- Horst Brunner (* 1940), old Germanist
- Sigrid Brunk (* 1937), writer
- Bernd Buchheister (* 1962), soccer player
- Jürgen Buchheister (1949–2020), politician (SPD)
- Käthe Buchler (1876–1930), important amateur photographer for the history of everyday life during the First World War and color photography
- Johann Gottlieb Buhle (1763–1821), philosopher, philologist and historian of philosophy
- Gottfried Philipp von Bülow (1770–1850), statesman and historian
- Hans Adolf von Bülow (1857–1915), diplomat
- Christian Heinrich Bünger (1782–1842), surgeon and anatomist
- Gerd Burtchen (1920–1959), caricaturist, painter and graphic artist
- Wilhelm Busch (1892–1967), chemist and mine director
- Axel von dem Bussche (1919–1993), officer and resistance fighter July 20, 1944
- Ludwig Busse (1862–1907), philosopher and university professor
- Hans Bussmeyer (1853–1930), composer
- Hugo Bußmeyer (1842–1912), composer
C.
- Heinrich Camerarius (1547–1601), lawyer and diplomat
- Johann Camman the Elder J. (1584–1649), lawyer, syndic of the city of Braunschweig and book collector
- Cappuccino (real name: Karsten Löwe, * 1974), rapper
- Carl Josef (* 2005), comedian
- Caroline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1768–1821), Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover
- Heinrich Caspari (1805–1880), Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1848 to 1879
- Martin Chemnitz (1561–1627), legal scholar and court official in Pomeranian and Schleswig-Holstein services
- Joachim Clemens (1931–2018), lawyer and politician (CDU)
D.
- Stephan Dabbert (* 1958), agricultural economist, elected rector of the University of Hohenheim
- Kurd von Damm (1862–1915), lawyer, politician and entrepreneur
- Frank Dammann (1957-2017), handball player
- August Wilhelm Dankworth (1813–1854), painter
- Ewald Daub (1889–1946), cameraman
- Sigrid Daub (* 1927), religious educator and translator
- Johannes Daubert (1877–1947), philosopher
- Philipp Wilhelm Daubert (1799–1875), canning manufacturer
- Friedrich von der Betten (1802–1881), Minister in the Kingdom of Hanover
- Georg von der Betten (1836–1898), member of the German Reichstag
- Adolf Dedekind (1829–1909), judge and university professor; from 1892 to 1905 president of the Braunschweig regional court
- Julie Dedekind (1825–1914), writer and educator
- Richard Dedekind (1831-1916), mathematician (founder of modern algebra)
- Eduard Degener , also Edward Degener (1809–1890), politician and member of the US House of Representatives
- Johann Christian Degener (1774–1854), Braunschweig local councilor and founder of Degenershausen in the Harz region
- Paul Degener (1851–1901), pharmacist and sugar chemist
- Jaro Deppe (* 1948), soccer player
- Herbert Derwein , until 1926 Herbert Levin (1893–1961), historian and city archivist for the city of Heidelberg
- Rüdiger Dingemann (* 1951), author
- Dirk Dirksen (1937–2006), music promoter
- Werner Ditzinger (1928–2016), swimmer
- Heinrich Dohrn (1838–1913), zoologist, city councilor and member of the German Reichstag
- Walter Dötzer (1911–?), Hygienist and SS doctor, participates in human experiments in the Buchenwald concentration camp
- Wolfgang Dramsch (* 1949), football player
- Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke (1774–1849), Protestant theologian, general superintendent and bishop
- Ernst Droem (1880–1947), writer and poet
- Carl Georg Oscar Drude (1852–1933), botanist, co-founder of plant ecology as a scientific discipline
- Paul Drude (1863–1906), physicist
- Johann Philipp Du Roi (1741–1785), doctor and botanist specializing in dendrology
- Julius Düker (* 1996), soccer player
- Hermann Dürre (1819–1893), educator and historian
E.
- Sebastian Ebel (* 1963), manager and president of Eintracht Braunschweig
- Alfred Ebeling (1857–1931), banker
- Hans Ebeling (* 1939), philosopher
- Bernd Effe (* 1942), classical philologist
- Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg (1773–1853), reform pedagogue and director of the Jewish Samson School in Wolfenbüttel
- Tilman Ehrhorn (* 1972), jazz musician and music producer
- Justin Eilers (* 1988), football player
- Jusuf El-Domiaty (* 1990), basketball player
- Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1691–1750), wife of Emperor Karl VI., Mother of Maria Theresa
- Lars Ellmerich (* 1961), soccer player and coach
- Thomas Ellrott (* 1966), nutrition psychologist
- Adolf Emperius (1806–1844), philologist, historian and teacher at the Brunswick Collegium Carolinum
- Johann Ferdinand Friedrich Emperius (1759–1822), university professor at the Collegium Carolinum, museum director and Brunswick court advisor
- Hans Engelbrecht (1599–1642), journeyman cloth maker, mystic and preacher
- Helene Engelbrecht (1849–1927), benefactor, women's rights activist and founder of several charities
- Louis Engelbrecht (1857–1934), lawyer, playwright and poet; belonged to the circle of friends of the poet Wilhelm Raabe
- Otto Engelhardt (1866–1936), German-Spanish engineer and patron
- Wolfgang Engels (1908–1983), actor, theater director, radio play and voice actor
- Christine Enghaus ( pseudonym of Christine Engehausen) (1817–1910), actress, a. a. at the Vienna Burgtheater
- Anton Ulrich von Erath (1709–1773), archivist, historian, publicist and lawyer
- Henri Erdmann (1878–1937), member of the Braunschweig State Parliament, victim of National Socialism
- Christoph Erdmenger (* 1970), politician and environmental scientist
- Jochem Erlemann (1938–2009), investment expert
- Ludwig Ernesti (1814–1880), Lutheran theologian, author of the Small Catechism of the Brunswick Regional Church, first published in 1858
- Wilhelm Arnold Eschenburg (1778–1861), German lawyer
- Elmar von Eschwege (1856–1935), painter
- Ilse Esdorn (1897–1985), agricultural botanist and university professor
- Henry Everling (1873–1960), goldsmith and silversmith, Hamburg parliamentarian, Senator (SPD) and managing director of various consumer cooperatives
- Käthe Evers (1893–1918), painter
F.
- Oskar Fehr (1871–1959), ophthalmologist
- Eduard Fein (1813–1858), legal scholar
- Ferdinand Albrecht I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1636–1687), Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern
- Carsten Fichtelmann (* 1970), entrepreneur, producer and publisher
- Sonja Fiedler-Tresp (* 1972), writer and translator
- Karl Fiehler (1895–1969), NSDAP politician, SS-Obergruppenführer and Mayor of Munich from 1933 to 1945
- Eberhard Finen (1668–1726), Protestant theologian, abbot and Brunswick court and cathedral preacher
- Federigo Fiorillo (1755–1823), violinist and composer
- Anna Klara Fischer (1887–1967), social politician and women's rights activist
- Caroline Auguste Fischer , b. Venturini (1764–1842), writer and sister of Karl Heinrich Georg Venturini
- Hermann Fischer (1885–1975), animal photographer
- Matthias Flacius the Younger (1547–1593), medic and philosopher
- Gisa Flake (born 1985), actress
- Werner Flechsig (1908–1988), linguist, dialect and name researcher, folklorist and musicologist
- Klaus Flesche (1917–1997), architect and industrial designer
- Franz Chassot von Florencourt (1803–1886), writer and journalist
- Florian Floto (* 1988), archer
- Hansgeorg Förster (1936–2018), mineralogist
- Friedrich Försterling (1953-2007), psychologist
- Gerhard von Frankenberg (1892–1969), zoologist, social democratic politician, member of the state parliament of the Free State of Braunschweig and active monist
- Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim (1801–1869), crystallographer, physicist and geographer
- Leopold Friedrich Fredersdorff (1737–1814), administrative lawyer in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- Julius Freudenthal (1805–1874), violinist, composer and numismatist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Fricke (1810–1891), educational writer
- Rudolf Fricke (1899–1981), graphic artist and Braunschweig local researcher
- Friedrich Karl Ferdinand of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1729–1809), Duke of Braunschweig-Bevern
- Friedrich Wilhelm (1771–1815), Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, called the Black Duke
- Dieter Frielinghaus (* 1928), Protestant Reformed pastor, peace activist and publicist; Member of the DKP
- Uwe Friesel (* 1939), writer
- Eduard Friesland (1841–1911), high school teacher and philologist
- Carl Wilhelm August Fritze (1781–1850), businessman and Senator from Bremen
- Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (1900–1988), theater and film actor and voice actor
- Werner Fürbringer (1888–1982), Rear Admiral of the Navy and submarine commander in World War I
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- Wolfgang Gaebel (* 1947), psychiatrist
- Theodor Gassmann (1828–1871), stage poet
- Günter Gaus (1929–2004), journalist, publicist, diplomat and politician, from 1974 to 1981 head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic in the GDR
- Wilhelm Gaus (1876–1953), chemist and industrialist; Headed BASF from 1931 to 1937
- Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855), mathematician, astronomer, geodesist and physicist, Princeps mathematicorum
- Joseph Gauß (1806–1873), artillery officer, geodesist, railway construction engineer and construction clerk
- Hermann Gebhard (1843–1906), lawyer and city director of Bremerhaven
- Georg Christoph Gebhardi (1667–1693), mathematician, historian and university teacher
- Heinrich Brandanus Gebhardi (1657–1729), orientalist and Protestant theologian
- Johann Ludwig Levin Gebhardi (1699–1764), regional historian and genealogist
- Hans Friedrich Geitel (1855–1923), teacher and physicist
- August Heinrich Christian Gelpke (1769–1842), mathematician, astronomer, school councilor and professor in Braunschweig
- Eduard Gelpke (1847–1923), painter
- Henning Genz (1938–2006), elementary particle physicist
- Gustav Gerecke (1871–1929), politician (SPD), Braunschweig State Minister
- Rose Gerisch (1894–?), Politician and member of parliament (SPD, SED)
- Christoph Gerke (1628–1714), Braunschweig mayor and chronicler
- Gerwin von Hameln (around 1415 - 1496), cleric, town clerk and book collector
- August von Geyso (1802–1861), Braunschweig Minister of State
- Willi Giesemann (* 1937), soccer player
- Rembertus Giltzheim (also: Rempert Gilsheim; † verm. 1532), physician and university professor
- Laura Gläsner (* 1996), track and field athlete
- Gerda Gmelin (1919–2003), theater director and actress
- Jacques Goldberg (1861–1934), musician, actor, director and theater director
- Wilhelm Görges (1813-1894), postal worker and writer
- Manfred Göthert (1939–2019), German doctor and pharmacologist
- Wilhelm Götte (1807–1839), philologist, philosopher and journalist
- Carl Götting (1828–1899), businessman, world traveler and collector, sponsor of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum
- Johann Friedrich Graefe (1711–1787), post and chamber councilor and composer
- Karl Heinrich Gräffe (1799–1873), mathematician
- Hans Grahl (1895–1966), opera singer
- Nico Granatowski (* 1991), soccer player
- Adele Grantzow (1845–1877), ballet dancer
- Christoph Julius Gravenhorst (1731–1794), entrepreneur and chemist, together with his brother Johann Heinrich, inventor of the paintbrush " Braunschweiger Grün "
- Johann Heinrich Gravenhorst (1719–1781), businessman and chemist, together with his brother Christoph Julius inventor of the paint "Braunschweiger Grün"
- Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst (1777-1857), zoologist
- Karl Theodor Gravenhorst (1810–1886), classical philologist, teacher and translator
- Michael Green (born 1972), hockey player
- Karl Heinrich Greune (known as KH Greune; * 1933), painter and graphic artist
- Stefan Grimme (* 1963), chemistry professor
- Wolfgang Grobe (* 1956), football player
- Hermann Gropengießer (1879–1946), high school teacher and prehistoric
- Karl Wilhelm Gropius (1793–1870), theater and diorama painter
- Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964), politician, first of the SPD, from 1946 of the SED, from 1949 to 1964 Prime Minister of the GDR
- Alexander Grundner-Culemann (1885–1981), forester and politician, Mayor of Goslar from 1952 to 1958
- Marie Rosa Günter (* 1991), pianist
- Werner von Gustedt (1813–1864), District Administrator of the Halberstadt district
- Walter Gutkind (1880–1976), lawyer and senior administrative judge
H
- Harald Haarmann (* 1946), linguist and cultural scientist
- Axel Hacke (* 1956), journalist and writer
- Heinrich Friedrich August von Hadeln (1756–1809), officer
- Johann Heinrich Haeberlin (1738–1808), councilor and museum director
- Ludwig Hänselmann (1834–1904), historian and city archivist
- Moses Uri ha-Levi (≈1543–1621 / 25), rabbi
- Uli Hannemann (* 1965), writer
- Otto Harder (1892–1956), football player and warden in concentration camps
- Harp Agnes , real name Agnes Schosnoski (1866–1939), bank singer and city original
- Anton Friedrich Harms (1695–1745), painter and set designer
- Robert Hartig (1839–1901), forest scientist
- Ferdinand Hartmann (1790–1842), textile entrepreneur and founder of the worsted spinning mill in Leipzig
- Fritz Hartmann (1896–1974), politician and Lord Mayor of Salzgitter
- Kurt Hassebrauk (1901–1983), Phytomedicist
- Bernhard Andreas von Heim (1759–1821), German-Russian polymath and university rector
- Albert Heine (1867–1949), actor and director and director of the Vienna Burgtheater
- Walter von Heinemann (1858–1928), General of the Infantry
- Joachim Heintz (* 1961), musician and university professor
- Rudolf Heitefuss (* 1928), Phytomedicist
- Friedrich von Hellwig (1775–1845), as a hussar, first bearer of the Iron Cross, 1st class; Prussian general
- Joachim Hempel (born March 16, 1949), theologian, cathedral preacher at St. Blasii Cathedral
- Eduard Henke (1783–1869), lawyer, criminal scientist and university professor
- Friedrich Christian Ludwig Henneberg (1748–1812), prefect of the Oker département from 1808 to 1812
- Rudolf Henneberg (1826–1876), painter
- Wilhelmine Henneberg , called Minna (1824–1886), benefactress, founder of the Rudolfstift
- Hans Henning (1874–?), Germanist, literary historian and teacher
- Heiner Herbst (* 1931), politician, Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament
- Jochen Herling (* 1943), photographer
- Herman (II.) Von Vechelde (1350–1420), long-distance trader and mayor
- Hans Herrig (1845–1892), journalist and writer
- Ludwig Herrig (1816–1889), philologist and school teacher
- Victor Heymann (1842–1926), lawyer and city councilor, first Jewish notary in the Duchy of Braunschweig
- Kurd Erich Heyne (1906–1961), actor, director, cabaret artist and author
- Ernst August Wilhelm Himly (1800–1881), professor of medicine at the University of Göttingen
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Himly (1769–1831), Prussian civil servant, first private lecturer in education at Berlin University
- Karl Gustav Himly (1772–1837), physician and university professor
- Franz Himstedt (1852–1933), physicist and university professor
- Uwe Hinrichs (* 1949), Slavist, linguist and university professor
- Wilhelm Hirte (1905–1986), lawyer, Prosecutor of the Braunschweig Special Court
- Horst Hischer (* 1943), mathematics professor
- Christian Friedrich Hoffmann (1762–1820), mathematician, archaeologist and educator of the princes of Wies-Neuwied
- Hans-Detlef Hoffmann (* 1947), Lutheran theologian, Vice President of the Regional Church Office of the Evangelical Church in Westphalia
- Markolf Hoffmann (* 1975), writer
- Kurt Hoffmeister (1924–2020), historian
- Friedrich Hofmann (1949–2018), physician, university professor and author
- Werner Hofmeister (1902–1984), politician (CDU), Lower Saxony Minister of Justice, President of the State Parliament from 1955 to 1957
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Holland (1903–1979), lawyer, President of the Lower Saxony State Court
- August Hollandt (1800–1882), lawyer and left-liberal politician
- Ludeke Hollant (≈1460–1510), mayor and leader of the inner-city uprising of 1488
- Christina Holtz-Bacha (* 1953), professor of journalism
- Franz von Holstein (1826–1878), composer
- Benno von Holwede (1850–1924), physician, founder of the municipal children's clinic
- Robert Homburg (1848–1912), German-Australian judge, politician and minister
- Wolfgang Höper (1933–2020), actor
- Harry Hoppe (1894–1969), Lieutenant General in the Wehrmacht
- Ernst Horn (1774–1848), medic
- Franz Christoph Horn (1781–1837), writer and literary historian
- Jannes Horn (* 1997), soccer player
- Wolfgang Horn (1925–2018), horticultural scientist, ornamental plant breeder and university professor
- Konrad Hornejus (1590–1649), Protestant theologian and professor at the University of Helmstedt
- Philipp Horst (1584–1664), rhetorician and moral philosopher
- Jörg Hoßbach (* 1964), German soccer goalkeeper and coach
- August Ferdinand Howaldt (1809–1883), engineer, founder of the mechanical engineering company "Schweffel & Howaldt"
- August Friedrich Theodor Howaldt (1838–1868), sculptor and modeller
- Georg Ferdinand Howaldt (1802–1883), goldsmith, sculptor and ore caster
- Hermann Howaldt (1841–1891), sculptor, ore caster and copper driver
- Hartwig Ludwig Anton von Hoym (1750–1811), Prussian statesman
- Otto Hübner (1876–1952), dentist
- Felix Huch (1880–1952), doctor and writer
- Friedrich Huch (1873–1913), writer
- Ricarda Huch (1864–1947), writer, poet and narrator
- Rainer Hunold (* 1949), actor
- Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1691–1765), composer
- Hans-Gerhard Husung (* 1950), education manager
- Auguste Hyrtl (1818–1901), writer
I.
- Heinrich Illers (1908–1986), lawyer, SS-Hauptsturmführer in the security service and, after 1945, President of the Senate of the Lower Saxony State Social Court
- Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813), zoologist and entomologist
- Walter Isendahl (1872–1945), Rear Admiral
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- Georg Jabin (1828–1864), landscape painter
- Ernst-Henning Jahn (* 1938), politician (CDU)
- Friedrich Jelpke (1921–1983), architect and regional planner
- Anton Detlev Jenner (around 1690–1732), baroque sculptor and carver
- Uwe John (1950–2008), politician (SPD)
- Margarethe Jonas (1783–1858), picture embroiderer and painter
- Jette Joop (* 1968), jewelry and fashion designer
- Wilhelm Josephi (1763–1845), professor of medicine, surgeon and obstetrician
- Max Jüdel (1845–1910), entrepreneur, founder of the "Eisenbahnsignal-Bauanstalt Max Jüdel & Co" (today Siemens)
- Carl Heinrich Jürgens (1801–1860), Lutheran theologian, editor, publicist and politician
- Renate Jürgens-Pieper (* 1951), politician (SPD)
- Steffen Jürgens (* 1967), actor and film director
- Heinz Junghans (* 1932), jazz musician and surgeon
- Paul Junke (1886–1945), politician (SPD), member of the Landtag and Reichstag
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- Friedrich Kalbfuß (1903–1945), playwright, stage designer and poet
- Bernhard Kampmann (* 1957), diplomat
- Karl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1713–1780), Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- Charles II (1804–1873), Duke of Braunschweig
- Katrin Kauschke (* 1971), hockey player and Olympic participant
- Bruno Kaye (1878–1946), farmer and politician, member of the state parliament of the Free State of Braunschweig
- Luisa Keller (* 2001), volleyball player
- Karin Kersten (* 1943), writer and translator
- Wilhelm Keune (1905–1974), entrepreneur and politician (FDP), 1947–1949 MdL of Lower Saxony
- Sascha Kirschstein (* 1980), soccer goalkeeper
- Martin Klingeberg (* 1961), jazz musician
- Ernst August Klingemann (1777–1831), Romantic writer
- Arnold Knigge (* 1948), lawyer and state councilor
- August Wilhelm Knoch (1742–1818), natural scientist and professor of physics at the Collegium Carolinum
- Robin Knoche (* 1992), soccer player
- Albert Knoll (1858–1952), chemist and entrepreneur; Founder of the chemical factory Knoll, later Knoll AG (Ludwigshafen)
- Friedrich Knoll (1841–1900), urban geometer and author
- Friedrich Knolle (1807–1877), engraver and inspector of the Ducal Museum
- Werner Knopp (1931–2019), lawyer, from 1977 to 1998 President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Gustav Knuth (1901–1987), actor
- Hans Koch (1860–1913), administrative lawyer, district director of Holzminden
- Konrad Koch , actually Wilhelm Carl Johann Conrad Koch (1846–1911), introduced soccer as a school sport and was the developer of the first German set of rules for soccer
- Michael Koch (* 1973), photo artist
- Paul Koch (1879–1959), lawyer
- Ulrich Koch (1921–1996), violist
- Karl Köchy (1800–1880), theater director, dramaturge and writer
- Özkan Koçtürk (* 1974), football player
- Louis Köhler (1820–1886), music critic, composer, music writer and piano teacher
- Kay Kohlmeyer (* 1950), Near Eastern archaeologist
- Ernst Koken (1860–1912), paleontologist
- Oliver Koletzki (* 1974), producer and DJ in the field of electronic dance music and house
- Charles König (1774–1851), German-British naturalist
- Klaus Koenig (* 1936), modern jazz pianist and sound engineer
- Leo von König (1871–1944), painter
- Heinrich Königsdorf (1877–1950), painter and lawyer
- Hans-Joachim Körber (* 1946), manager, 2001–2007 CEO of Metro AG
- Alexander Körner (1813–1848), genre painter
- Erich Körner (1866–1951), portrait painter; active in Frankfurt am Main and in Braunschweig
- Joachim von Kortzfleisch (1890–1945), General of the Infantry of the Wehrmacht
- Almut Kottwitz (née Kruse; * 1952), engineer, ministerial official and politician (Die Grünen)
- Kaspar Kraemer (* 1949), President of the Association of German Architects (BDA)
- Nina Kraft (1968–2020), triathlete
- Werner Kraft (1896–1991), librarian, literary scholar and writer
- Friedrich Maria Krahe (1804–1888), architect and Brunswick building officer
- Uwe Krause (* 1955), soccer player
- Gerard Krefft (1830–1881), one of Australia's first zoologists and paleontologists
- Louis Krevel (1801–1876), portrait painter
- Jürgen Krieghoff (* 1943), diplomat, 2004–2006 Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Naples, 2006–2008 German Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
- Otto Krone (1874–1957), teacher, painter and local history researcher
- August Krüger (1793–1873), classical philologist, author, teacher and headmaster
- Hans Krüger (1884–1945), administrative lawyer, Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Labor
- Hugo Krüger (1848–1930), politician (NLP)
- Gottschalk Kruse (around 1499 - 1540), theologian, reformer and first representative of Lutheran teaching in Braunschweig
- Alfred Kubel (1909–1999), politician (SPD), from January 1946 Prime Minister of the State of Braunschweig, from 1970 to 1976 Prime Minister of the State of Lower Saxony
- Wolfgang Kubicki (* 1952), politician (FDP); since 1996 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein
- Christiane Kubrick (* 1932 as Christiane Susanne Harlan), painter and actress
- Achim Kück (* 1956), composer and jazz pianist
- Robert Kugelberg (1886–1964), politician (SPD), member of the Braunschweig Landtag, the Appointed Braunschweig Landtag, the Appointed Lower Saxony Landtag and the Lower Saxony Landtag
- Julius Kuhn (* 1992), film and theater actor
- Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt (* 1964), evangel. Theologian
- Jasmin-Isabel Kühne (* 1988), harpist
- Jens Kujawa (* 1965), basketball player
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- Friedrich Lachmann (1800–1828), classical philologist
- Heinrich Lachmann (1797–1872), educator, doctor, biologist and freemason
- Karl Lachmann (1793-1851), philologist
- August Lafontaine (1758–1831), writer and theologian
- Lars Lagerpusch (* 1998), basketball player
- Willy Lages (1901–1971), SS-Sturmbannführer; jointly responsible for the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands
- Christophe Lambert (* 1985), judoka
- John Landauer (1848–1924), chemist and businessman
- Gerd-Rüdiger Lang (* 1943), watchmaker, entrepreneur and founder of Chronoswiss
- Gerhard Landmann (1904–1933), businessman and SS man
- Caroline Lange (1802 - after 1852), actress
- Karl Lange (1893–1983), historian and headmaster
- Wilhelm Langenheim (1807–1874), photographer
- Gustav Langerfeldt (1802–1883), Brunswick lawyer and politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Heike Lätzsch (* 1973), national hockey player, Olympic champion 2004
- Johann Lechel (1635–1686), general practitioner in Braunschweig
- Christian Lechelt (* 1977), art historian
- Bodo Lecke (1939–2018), Germanist and educationalist
- Carsten Lehmann (* 1961), politician
- Paul Lehmann (1884–1964), classical philologist
- Katharina Lehnert (* 1994), tennis player
- Philipp Leinemann (* 1979), director and screenwriter
- Carl Lemme (1746–1815), piano maker and organist
- Wilhelm Leyser I (1592–1649), Lutheran theologian
- Wilhelm Friedrich August von Leyßer (1771–1842), lieutenant general and politician, first President of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
- Hannes Lichte (* 1944), physicist
- Friedrich von Liebe (1809–1885), lawyer, Braunschweig diplomat and minister
- Ekkehard Lieberam (* 1937), constitutional lawyer and publicist
- Johannes Lieff (1879–1955), non-party Braunschweig Interior Minister (1924–27), NSDAP member since 1935, President of the Police (1931–37) and President of the Braunschweig Administrative Court (1938–45)
- Bernhard Ließ (1926–2011), Lord Mayor 1964–72
- Rudolf Lindau (1888–1977), communist politician
- Christian Link (* 1938), theologian
- Carl Friedrich Löbbecke (1768–1839), businessman, banker and owner of the Löbbecke & Co. banking house.
- Luise Löbbecke (1808–1892), benefactress, first honorary citizen of Braunschweig
- Rudolf Löhr (1885–1945), politician (USPD or SPD), Braunschweig State Minister in 1919
- Egmont Lucius (1814-1884), politician
- Berndt Lüderitz (* 1940), cardiologist
- Georg Wilhelm Amatus Lüer (1802–1883), manufacturer
- Peter Lufft (1911–1997), painter and photographer, art and theater critic, publicist and gallery owner
- Frank Lukas (* 1969), television presenter and producer
- Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Lützow (1750–1830), Prussian major general
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- Thilo Maatsch (1900–1983), painter, sculptor of abstraction and representative of constructivism
- Dietrich Mack (1913–2001), senior director of studies, s. also Citizen Medal of the City of Braunschweig , awarded in 1997
- Heinrich Mack (1867–1945), historian and Brunswick city archivist until 1934
- Ferdinand Mackeldey (1784–1834), lawyer and professor at the universities of Helmstedt, Marburg and Bonn
- Alexander Madlung (* 1982), football player
- Willy Maertens (1893–1967), actor, theater director, theater manager and acting teacher at the Thalia Theater (Hamburg), married to the actress Charlotte Kramm
- Rudolf Magnus (1873–1927), doctor, pharmacologist and physiologist
- Wolfgang Maiers (* 1950), psychologist
- Ulrich Markurth (* 1956), local politician, Lord Mayor of Braunschweig since 2014
- Günter Mast (1926–2011), entrepreneur
- Helene Matthies (1890–1974), teacher and writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon (1774–1851), Prussian colonel and military writer
- Heinz Mayr (* 1935), athlete
- Oskar Johannes Mehl (1875–1972), Protestant theologian and author of liturgical and national publications
- Gesche Meiburg (1581–1617), so-called "Braunschweiger Heldenjungfrau", as she fought in the defense of Braunschweig in 1615
- Ernst von Meier (1832–1911), lawyer and university lecturer
- Heinrich Meier (1842–1923), officer and local historian
- Helmut Meier (1897–1973), Germanist
- Matthias Meinhardt (* 1969), historian
- Cord Mente (around 1500–1574), bell and gun caster, equipment master of the city of Braunschweig until 1550
- Hinrik Mente (around 1475 - 1531), bell and gun founder
- Heino Messerschmidt (actually Heinz Hartwig Messerschmidt; 1915–1990), animal breeder and administrative farmer
- Wilhelm Meves (1848–1908), actor at the Braunschweiger Hoftheater
- Axel Meyer (* 1968), journalist and author of historical novels
- Florian Meyer (* 1968), soccer referee
- Johann Heinrich Meyer (1812–1863; actually Heinrich Meyer), printer and publisher
- Jürgen Meyer (* 1933), acoustics expert
- Klaus Meyer (1937–2014), football player
- Max Wilhelm Meyer (1853–1910), astronomer, naturalist and writer
- Hermann Meyer-Hartmann (* 1929), journalist and publicist
- Hans Meyerhoff (1914–1965), American philosopher of German origin
- Oda Mielenhausen (1938-2010), table tennis player
- Peter Miklusz (* 1983), theater, film and television actor as well as castle actor of the Vienna Burgtheater
- Wilhelm von Minnigerode (1840–1913), landowner, member of the Reichstag
- Hermann Mitgau (1895–1980), sociologist and genealogist
- Nils Mittmann (* 1979), basketball player
- Oliver Möllenstädt (* 1978), politician (FDP)
- Carl Momberg (1901–1988), opera singer and director at the Braunschweig State Theater
- Rainer Mordmüller (* 1941), painter and graphic artist
- Walter Moser (1906–?), German administrative officer
- Gustav von der Mülbe (1831–1917), Prussian lieutenant general
- Müller brothers (19th century), musicians (string quartet)
- Johann Samuel Müller (1701–1773), headmaster and writer
- Rolf-Dieter Müller (* 1948), military historian
- Sven-David Müller (* 1969), writer, TV presenter and medical journalist, recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit (2005)
- Theodor Müller (1892–1968), geographer and local history researcher
- Carl Müller-Braunschweig (until 1925/26: Carl Müller; 1881–1958), philosopher, psychoanalyst and functionary of the psychoanalytic associations DPG and DPV
- Ernst Müller-Braunschweig (1860–1928), businessman and sculptor
- Elisabeth Müller-Luckmann (1920–2012), psychologist, criminologist, 1946–99 worked as a court expert in sensational criminal proceedings, for many years chairwoman of the German Society for Sexual Research, member of the "Violence Commission" set up by the Federal Government
- Andreas Müller-Pohle (* 1951), photographer
- Albrecht Müller-Schöll (1927–1997), geographer and educator
- Günther Müller-Stöckheim (1913–1943), naval officer in the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine before and during the Second World War
- Hans Munte (1859–1927), industrialist and politician, Member of Parliament for the Free State of Braunschweig
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- Albert Natalis (1831–1904), entrepreneur
- Friedrich Natalis (1864–1935), engineer
- Dennis Nawrocki (* 1992), basketball player
- Adolph Nehrkorn (1841–1916), ornithologist and oologist
- Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (1793–1846), astronomer
- Walter Nicolai (1873–1947), officer and head of the German secret service III B in the First World War
- Ludwig Nieper (1826–1906), painter, wood cutter and academy director
- Friedrich van Nispen (1940–2014), lawyer and politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
- Philip Noch (* 1989), basketball player
- Karl Wilhelm Nose (1753–1835), doctor, geologist and mineralogist
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- Johann Elias Olfermann (1776–1822), Braunschweig Major General of the Wars of Liberation, confidante of the Black Duke
- Leyla Onur , née Akdag (* 1945), teacher and politician (SPD), 1989–94 first German member of Turkish descent in the European Parliament, 1994–2002 member of the Bundestag
- Albert Oppenheimer (1814–1897), banker
- Hans Oppermann (1895–1982), classical philologist, university professor
- Max Osterloh (1851–1927), architect and Braunschweig city planner
- Carl Theodor Ottmer (1800–1843), architect and Brunswick court builder
- Robert Otto (1837–1907), chemist and pharmacist
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- Heidi Paris (1950–2002), publisher and writer
- Melanie Paschke (* 1970), track and field athlete
- Adele Passy-Cornet (1838–1915), opera singer
- Wilhelm Pätz (1800–1856), landscape painter and lithographer
- Reinhard Pekrun (* 1952), psychologist
- Marc Pfitzner (* 1984), soccer player
- Jens Pieper (* 1968), archer
- Gert Pinkernell (1937–2017), emeritus Romance studies and literary scholar at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
- Wilhelm Plappert (1856–1925), stage painter
- Georg Ferdinand Plesmann (1767–1817), Prussian officer
- Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907), painter and graphic artist
- Patrick Posipal (* 1988), football player
- Tilla von Praun (1877–1962), social reformer and DVP politician, member of the Braunschweig State Parliament
- Joachim Preen (1940–1984), director
- Ulrich Profitlich (* 1936), literary scholar
- Bernfried EG Pröve (* 1963), composer and organist
- Matthias Puhle (* 1955), historian of medieval history and director of the Magdeburg Museum of Cultural History
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- Otto Ralfs (1892–1955), an important collector of classical modern art in Braunschweig, married to Käte Ralfs , promoter of modern art in Braunschweig
- Albrecht Andreas von Ramdohr (1649–1730), court judge from the Electorate of Hanover, archive director and councilor on a diplomatic mission
- Walter Ramme (1895–?), Swimmer
- Fritz Randow (* 1952), drummer
- Erik Range (alias Gronkh), (* 1977), Let's Player and web video producer
- Tobias Rau (* 1981), soccer player
- Gustav von Rauch (1774–1841), General and Prussian Minister of War
- Günter Raulf (1928–2015), Lieutenant General in the Air Force in the German Armed Forces
- Rechen-August , real name August Tischer (1882–1928), arithmetic artist and city original
- Adalbert von der Recke (* 1930), retired major general D. the Bundeswehr
- MC Rene (* 1976), German-Moroccan MC and rapper
- Norbert Regensburger (1886–1933), lawyer and politician
- Paul Rehkopf (1872–1949), actor
- Wilhelmine Reichard , b. Schmidt (1788–1848), first German balloonist
- Daniel Reiche (* 1988), football player
- Kurt Reidemeister (1893–1971), mathematician and university professor, opponent of National Socialism
- Leopold Reidemeister (1900–1987), art historian and general director of the State Museums in West Berlin
- Andreas Reinke (* 1960), rower
- Wilhelm Hermann Georg Remer (1775–1850), medic
- Frank Rennicke (* 1964), singer-songwriter from the right-wing extremist scene and candidate for federal presidents of the NPD and DVU
- Emely Reuer (1941–1981), actress, radio play and voice actress
- Egmont Richter (1868–1931), actor
- Kuno Rieke (1897–1945), SPD politician and President of the Braunschweig State Parliament from 1930 to 1933, died in the Dachau concentration camp
- Theodor Hermann Rimpau (1822–1888), farmer who is considered the founder of the moorland culture
- Willi Rimpau (1877–1963), hygienist and microbiologist
- Konrad Rittershausen (1560–1613), lawyer, philologist and university professor
- Heinrich Rodenstein (1902–1980), educator and university professor
- Julius Georg Paul du Roi (1754–1825), lawyer and director of the Brunswick poor institution
- Ernst August Roloff (1886–1955), historian, university professor and politician
- Ernst-August Roloff (1926–2017), historian and political scientist, son of Ernst August Roloff
- Fabian Römer (* 1990), rapper
- Rolf Romero (1915–2002), architect and architectural historian
- Heinrich Rönneburg (1887–1949), educator, civil servant and politician (CDU), member of the Parliamentary Council
- Theodor Georg August Roose (1771–1803), professor of physiology and anatomy and medical historian
- Willy Röpcke (1879–1945), judge and local politician, from 1930 to 1933 President of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court
- Franz Rosenbruch (1898–1958), SPD politician
- Rolf Rosenthal (1911–1947), gynecologist, worked as SS-Obersturmführer in several concentration camps; Sentenced to death in 1947 and executed
- Gustav Rüggeberg (1894–1961), painter, graphic artist, illustrator and university lecturer
- Johannes Runge (1878–1949), track and field athlete, first Brunswick Olympian (1904)
- Bärbel Rust (* 1955), politician (GREEN)
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- Ernst Sagebiel (1892–1970), architect
- Heinrich Sallentien (1825–1897), Lutheran theologian
- Ernst Sander (1898–1976), writer and translator
- Ole Sander (* 1967), music producer
- Hildegard Sauerbier (1891–1976), head of the Detmold City High School
- Theodor Schacht (1786–1870)
- Benjamin Schaefer (* 1981), jazz musician
- Alfred Schaper (1863–1905), anatomist, embryologist and university professor
- Eduard von Schaper (1792–1868), Upper Prussian President
- Friedrich Schaper (1869–1956), painter and graphic artist
- Klaus Schaper (1948–1966), victim on the inner-German border
- Hermann Scheffler (1820–1903), engineer, mathematician and physicist
- Wolfgang Scheffler (1902–1992), art historian
- Michael Scheike (* 1963), soccer player and coach
- Dominik Scheil (* 1989), soccer player
- Heinz-Günter Scheil (* 1962), soccer player and coach
- Galka Scheyer (1889–1945), painter, art dealer and art collector
- Dieter Schidor (1948–1987), actor
- Carl Schiller (1807–1874), historian, art historian and private scholar; Founder and first honorary director of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum
- Eckhard Schimpf (* 1938), journalist, author and motor sportsman
- Ludwig von Schleinitz (1763-1825), Prussian civil servant
- Wilhelm Schlüter (1900–1976), politician (SPD), mayor and honorary citizen of Klein Stöckheim , 1955–67 member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, 1961–63 district administrator of the Braunschweig district
- Günther Schmid (1888–1949), botanist and Goethe researcher
- Johann-Karl Schmidt (* 1942), art historian, museum director; Founding director of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
- Ulf Schmidt , (* 1966), playwright and theater scholar
- Walter Schmidt (1907–1997), engineer and politician (SPD)
- Erich Schneider (1895–1959), member of the Appointed Braunschweig Landtag
- Gudrun Scholz (* 1940), hockey player
- Sven Scholze (* 1969), soccer player
- Dietmar Schomburg (* 1950), chemist and bioinformatician, professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
- Max Schottelius (1849–1919), medic
- Eberhard Schrader (1836–1908), Old Testament scholar and orientalist who founded Assyriology in Germany
- Halwart Schrader (* 1935), journalist, automobile historian and author
- Heinrich Bernhard Schrader von Schliestedt (1706–1773), Privy Councilor and Minister in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- Heinrich Julius Friedrich von Schrader (1764–1829), lawyer
- Heinz Schrader (1910–1990), mechanical engineer, professor of fluid flow machines, founding rector of the Magdeburg University of Heavy Mechanical Engineering
- Wilhelm Schrader (1893–1978), local history researcher, publicist and publisher
- Dennis Schröder (* 1993), basketball player
- Holger Jens Schünemann (* 1967), physician and epidemiologist, professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Gebhard von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (1763-1818), court official, president of the imperial estates
- Werner von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (1792–1861), German politician
- Hans-Adolf Schultz (1909–1990), archaeologist and historian
- Norbert Schultze (1911–2002), composer (among others by Lili Marleen; Take me with you, captain, on a journey; operas among others. Black Peter, The Cold Heart ) and conductor; composer of numerous war and propaganda songs during the Nazi era
- Bruno Schulz (1890–1958), hereditary biologist and psychiatrist, rejected the Nazi policy of sterilization
- Friedrich Schulz (1795–1864), lawyer and Braunschweig Minister of State
- Hermann August Schwanert (1823–1886), lawyer
- Hugo Schwanert (1828–1902), chemist and university professor
- Christian Schwarzer (* 1969), handball player
- Kurt Seeleke (1912–2000), art historian and from 1939 to 1960 state curator and thus top monument protector of the state of Braunschweig
- Willy Seidel (1887–1934), writer, younger brother of Ina Seidel and nephew of Heinrich Seidel
- Edda Seippel (1919–1993), actress
- Emil Selenka (1842–1902), zoologist and explorer
- Kurd Semler (1879–1965), lawyer, politician (CDU) and Mayor of Braunschweig from 1952 to 1954
- Ingo Senst (* 1964), jazz musician
- Britta Siebert (* 1975), politician (CDU)
- Hermann Siedentop (1864–1943), sculptor and teacher at the arts and crafts school in Braunschweig
- Rudolf Sievers (1884–1918), draftsman and graphic artist of the youth movement
- Paul Sievert (1895–1988), walker and Olympic participant
- Max Silberschmidt (1853–1932), counselor and lawyer
- Hans-Joachim Simm (* 1946), German writer and editor
- August Skerl (1829–1895), Lutheran theologian, pastor at the Katharinenkirche in Brunswick from 1876 to 1895
- Barbara Slawig (* 1956), writer and translator
- Rainer Slotta (* 1946), industrial archaeologist, director of the German Mining Museum in Bochum
- Manfred Sohn (* 1955), politician (Die Linke)
- Walter Solmitz (1905–1962), philosopher and university professor
- Hans Sommer (1837–1922), composer and mathematician, director of the Carolo-Wilhelmina University of Technology , champion of musical copyright protection and co-founder of GEMA
- Sophie Caroline Marie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1737–1817), daughter of Karl I , Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- Hans von Specht (1825–1913), ducal-Braunschweig officer, from 1844 farmer, carter and postmaster in the USA
- Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr (1811–1881), historian, writer and lawyer
- Lisa Spickschen (* 1983), actress
- Joachim Spiering (* 1940), retired general D. the Bundeswehr
- Gerald Spindler (* 1960), legal scholar
- Jan Spoelder (* 1973), soccer player
- Louis Spohr (1784–1859), composer, conductor; next to Niccolò Paganini the greatest violinist of his time
- Günter Spur (1928–2013), engineering scientist, emeritus university professor
- Thomas Steg (* 1960), political and communications consultant
- Werner Stein (1855–1930), sculptor
- Willi Steinhof (1879–1967), soccer player and sports official
- Otto Steinmeyer (1883–1947/59), physician
- Heiko Steuer (* 1939), medieval archaeologist
- Wenzel Storch (* 1961), director
- Stephanie Storp (* 1968), track and field athlete
- Theodor Striese (* 1999), German composer
- Friedrich Karl von Strombeck (1771–1848), lawyer
- Delphin Strungk (1601–1694), organist and composer of the north German organ school, father of Nicolaus Adam Strungk
- Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640–1700), Baroque composer, son of Delphin Strungk
- Helmut Stubbe da Luz (* 1950), historian, publicist, philosopher and university professor
- Klaus Stümpel (1941–2015), visual artist
- Hermann von Stutterheim (1887–1959), lawyer and ministerial official
- Peter Szyszka (* 1957), communication scientist
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- Ludwig Tacke (1823–1899), architecture and history painter
- Barward Tafelmaker (1487–1565), master builder (south tower of St. Andrew's Church ; Braunschweiger Wasserkünste)
- Reinhard Tausch (1921–2013), psychologist
- Henning Tegetmeyer (1572–1618), Lutheran theologian, general superintendent of Göttingen
- Gustav Teichmüller (1832–1888), philosopher
- Robert Teichmüller (1863–1939), pianist and university professor
- Adolf Teichs (1812–1860), German history and genre painter as well as etcher and lithographer of the Düsseldorf School
- Peter Teumer (1956–2009), founder and singer of the punk band Daily Terror
- Mechthildis Thein (1888–1959), actress
- Ulrich Thein (1930–1995), actor, director, screenwriter, dubbing and radio play speaker
- Kurt Thiele (1896–1969), NSDAP politician, member of the Reichstag
- Rolf Thiele (* 1942), artist and university professor
- Otto Thielemann (1891–1938), newspaper editor and politician (USPD, SPD) 1924–1933 member of the state parliament, member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold , active opponent of National Socialism
- Phillip Tietz (* 1997), soccer player
- Sarah Elena Timpe (* 1985), actress
- Heinz Tobien (1911–1993), paleontologist
- Wolfgang Trapp (1918–2003), engineer, telecommunications and high-frequency technician
- Peter Treichel (* 1956), politician (SPD)
- Eduard Trieps (1811–1884), lawyer and Brunswick Minister of State
- Ulrich Trinks (1930–2008), Austrian historian, adult educator and long-time director of the Evangelical Academy in Vienna
- Walter Troppenz (1897–1974), inventor, writer and journalist; published workers' literature and stage plays in the Weimar Republic and crime novels and science fiction under the pseudonym during the Nazi era
- Christian Tunica (1795–1868), painter, court painter, father of Hermann Tunica
- Hermann Tunica (1826–1907), painter, court painter in Braunschweig
- Fricke van Twedorp (≈1355–1428), patrician, wholesaler and long-distance trader during the Hanseatic period and mayor of the Neustadt district in Braunschweig
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- Constantin Uhde (1836–1905), architect and professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig
- August Georg Uhle (1737–1804), Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the general dioceses of Hoya-Diepholz and Calenberg
- Gustav Uhlmann (born October 24, 1851; † March 1, 1916 in Mannheim), architect
- Carl Ulrich (1853–1933), politician, first President of the People's State of Hesse from 1919 to 1928
- Christoph Unger (* 1958), lawyer and administrative officer, President of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief since 2004
- Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Unzelmann (1753–1832), actor, singer and comedian
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- Lette Valeska (1885–1985), photographer, painter and sculptor
- Conrad Varrentrapp (1844–1911), historian and university professor
- Friedrich Karl von Vechelde (1801–1846), lawyer, historian and publicist
- Hermann von Vechtelde (1523–1572), legal scholar and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- Karl Heinrich Georg Venturini (1768–1849), Protestant theologian and historian, brother of Caroline Auguste Fischer , b. Venturini
- Heinrich Vieweg (1826–1890), publisher
- Thilo Vogelsang (1919–1978), historian, deputy head of the Institute for Contemporary History
- Peter Voigt (1925–1990), painter, graphic artist and university professor; from 1967 to 1972 first rector of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts
- Richard Voigt (1895–1970), teacher, politician (SPD) since the Weimar Republic, two terms minister of education for Lower Saxony
- Klaus Volkert (* 1942), trade unionist, involved as works council chairman in the VW corruption affair
- Alfred Volkland (1882–1944), tax officer and politician, member of the Landtag of the Free State of Braunschweig
- Bernhard Vollmer (1886–1958), historian and archivist, director of the Düsseldorf State Archives
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- Robert von Wachholtz (1816–1897), lieutenant general of the ducal-Braunschweig region
- Wilhelm Wagner (1793–1846), physician and university professor
- Otto Walkhoff (1860–1934), dentist
- Henrik Walsdorff (* 1965), jazz saxophonist
- Hans-Jürgen Warnecke (1934–2019), scientist and from 1993 to 2002 President of the Fraunhofer Society
- Max Wedemeyer (1911–1994), theologian and writer
- Gerd Wedler (1929–2008), chemist
- Kathrin Weiher (* 1962), local politician; active in the district of Goslar and in Lübeck
- Hans Weinert (1887–1967), anthropologist, partly ambivalent activities in the sense of Nazi racial hygiene, university professor in Kiel
- Anton Weitsch (1762–1841), painter and museum inspector
- Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1758–1828), Brunswick court painter, director of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
- Reinhard Wendemuth (* 1948), rower
- Everhard Westermann (1905–1973), publisher
- Friedrich Westermann (1840–1907), publisher
- Georg Westermann (1869–1945), publisher
- Hannes Westermann (1912–1989), architect
- Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (1770–1840), physicist, historian, natural scientist and entomologist
- Bernd Wiegand (* 1957), local politician (non-party, formerly: SPD); Mayor of the city of Halle (Saale) since December 1, 2012
- Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (1802–1841), zoologist, professor at the University of Berlin
- Ernst Wiehe (1842–1894), architect
- Hans Wiesen (1936–2013), agricultural engineer and politician (SPD)
- Wilhelm (1806–1884), Duke of Braunschweig
- Rudolf Wilke (1873–1908), draftsman and caricaturist, collaborator with Simplicissimus
- Dietrich Willikens (1915–2004), Lieutenant General in the German Armed Forces and Federal Managing Director of Johanniter Accident Aid
- Johann Heinrich Wilmerding (1749–1828), mayor from 1782 to 1808 and city director of the city of Braunschweig from 1814 to 1825
- Ludwig Winter (1843–1930), architect and city planner in Braunschweig
- Friedrich Albrecht Winzer (1762 / 63–1830), engineer, pioneer of gas lighting
- Artur Wiswedel (1913–1989), building contractor, councilor (FDP), mayor and patron
- Solms Wilhelm Wittig (1897–1968), civil engineer, university professor, entrepreneur, convicted war criminal
- Adolf Wolf (1899–1973), Major General in the Air Force of the Wehrmacht
- Hans Wolf (1850–1940), lawyer, from 1904 to 1922 President of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court
- Ingo Wolf (* 1955), FDP politician, former minister in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Carl Wolff (1884–1938), writer and cabaret artist
- Heinz Wolff (1909 - after 1983), architect and town planner in Braunschweig, chief curator in Hanover
- Gerd Wolter (1942–2019), actor, author and local politician
- Richard Wolter (* 1963), Bundesliga hockey referee
- Friedrich August Andreas Woltereck (1797–1866), opera singer (bass)
- Georg Wolters (1861–1933), animal and hunting painter and illustrator
Z
- Johann Zanger the Younger (1557–1607), lawyer and university professor
- Dieter Zeh (1932–2018), theoretical physicist
- Georg Zeidler (1860–1915), builder, architect, painter and university professor
- Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Ziegenbein (1766–1824), educator and general superintendent in Blankenburg
- Pia Zimmermann (* 1956), politician (Die Linke)
- Julius Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken (1770–1856), physician and entomologist
- Franz Zwilgmeyer (1901–1995), lawyer and sociologist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Blumenberg on sports-reference.com
- ↑ Historical Register of Architects on Archtek