Editing Celle (section)

=== Residents of Celle===
[[File:Caroline Mathilde Residenzmuseum Celle.JPG|140px|thumb|[[Caroline Matilda of Great Britain|Caroline Mathilde]], 1771]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F023743-0013, Bonn, Lübke mit Berliner Bürgermeister Albertz.jpg|thumb|140px|Heinrich Albertz (left) with President [[Heinrich Lübke]] 1966]]
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* [[Urbanus Rhegius]], (or Urban Rieger) (1489–1541), [[Protestant Reformers|protestant reformer]], died locally
* [[Johann Arndt]] (1555–1621), post-Reformation<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Arndt, Johann |volume=2 |page=628 |short=x}}</ref> theologian; died locally.<ref>{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Arndt,_Johann |short=x}}</ref>
* [[George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (1624–1705), ruled from 1665 to his death in [[Celle Castle]] as the last "Heath Duke" of the [[House of Welf]]
* [[Samuel Chappuzeau]] (1625-1701), playwright and author; lived locally from 1682; Head of Pages for [[George William, Duke of Brunswick]] from 1682 to 1701
* [[:de:Christoph Chappuzeau (Geheimsekretär)|Christoph Chappuzeau, (German Wiki)]] (1656-1734), (Son of Samuel) private secretary of Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1676
* [[Louise von Plessen]] (1725–1799), a Danish lady-in-waiting and memoir writer, died locally
* [[Caroline Matilda of Great Britain|Caroline Mathilde]] (1751–1775), Queen of Denmark and Norway in exile; died locally
* [[Johann Anton Leisewitz]] (1752–1806), writer<ref>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Leisewitz,_Johann_Anton |short=x}}</ref> and lawyer 
* [[Hermann Löns]] (1866–1914), editor and heath poet, lived in Celle, 1903–1912
* [[Otto Haesler]] (1880–1962), architect, with [[Walter Gropius]] and [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] an important representative of the New Architecture outside the [[Bauhaus]]; worked locally from 1906
* [[Heinrich-Hermann von Hülsen]] (1895–1982), [[Wehrmacht]] generalmajor, died locally
* [[Siegfried Westphal]] (1902–1982), [[Wehrmacht]] officer, general of cavalry, died locally
* [[Ernst Zierke]] (1905–1972), [[Unterscharführer]], [[SS]] member involved in the "[[Action T4|T4]]" euthanasia program and "[[Aktion Reinhardt]]", lived and died locally 
* [[Heinrich Schmidt (physician)|Heinrich Schmidt]] (1912–2000), [[Hauptsturmführer]] and camp doctor in [[concentration camp]]s; died locally
* [[Fritz Darges]] (1913–2009), [[Obersturmbannführer]] and personal aide of [[Adolf Hitler]]; died locally
* [[Fritz Grasshoff]] (1913–1997), artist, painter, writer and hit songwriter, lived in Celle 1946 to 1967 
* [[Heinrich Albertz]] (1915–1993), Protestant theologian, after the Second World War pastor in Celle, head of the municipal refugee office, politician (SPD) and mayor of (West) Berlin (1966–1967)
* [[Yisroel Moshe Olewski]] (1916-1966), Chief Rabbi of Celle, 1945-1950
* [[Claude Gewerc]] (born 1947), French politician, [[President of the regional council]] of Picardy; born in [[Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp|Bergen-Belsen]]
* [[Harald Range]] (1948–2018), lawyer, worked locally 1986-1989, [[Attorney General of Germany|Attorney General]] at the [[Federal Court of Justice of Germany|Federal Court]], 2011–2015