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HANNOVER

Most Famous People Born in Hannover, Germany

Notable people

2,767

Peak decade

1960s

Median birth year

1908

Most distinctive

Author 4.5×

A Lower Saxon court city whose most famous descendants sat on the British throne. Hannover's distinctive professions are authors, theologians, academics, and chemists — the trades of an old Welf residence and a Lutheran university town — and its most famous daughter is Hannah Arendt. George I and George II were both born here, and the 18th-century bench still carries the courtly shape of the personal union with Britain.