• Heinrich Beerbom (1892–1980), mayor, city manager and honorary citizen of
Bramsche • Wilhelm Beisner (1911–?), German
SD and
SS- Guide and arms dealer, agent • Otto Deppmeyer (born 1947), politician (
CDU), Member of Landtag • Richard Krentzlin (1864–1956), died in Hessisch Oldendorf, piano teacher and composer • Heinrich Krone (1895–1989), politician (
Centre Party,
CDU) Member of the Reichstag, Member of the Bundestag • Ilske Laginges (–1558), the first victim of the
Witch-hunt process • Konrad Schlüsselburg (1543–1619), German Lutheran theologian • Henrik Span (1634-1694), officer and Admiral in the Dutch, Venetian and Danish navies • Gustav Süß (1823–1881), born in Rumbeck, painter and author of children's books • Hans Peter Thul (born 1948), politician, (
CDU) Member of Landtag and
Bundestag • Karl Ludwig August Heino von Münchausen (1759–1836) officer in the American Revolutionary War and poet • Ludolph Münchausen (1570–1640), known as the scholar, collected at the time the largest and most famous library in Northern Germany • Albert Wehrhahn (1848–1942), born in Oldendorf, school official in
Hannover, a pioneer of the
Special education, local historian, honorary citizen of Hessisch Oldendorf • Ludwig Wessel (1879–1922), Protestant pastor of St. Nicolai Church in
Berlin; father of
Horst Wessel == References ==