People and Residents of Hanover
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), political theorist.
- Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), caricaturist, painter, and poet.
- William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), philosopher.
- Lena Meyer-Landrut (*1991), winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
- Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (1788-1864), architect.
- Per Mertesacker (*1984), football player for Arsenal F.C. and Germany.
- Marco Minnemann (*1970), drummer.
- Hassan Naim, biochemist.
- Gerhard Schröder (*1944), politician (and former Chancellor of Germany).
- Scorpions (band) (formed in 1965), rock band.
- Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), artist.
- Peter Stevens (RAF officer) (1919-1979), German-Jewish RAF officer.
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