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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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