Among the people who have taught or studied at the Braunschweig University of Technology or its precursor, the Collegium Carolinum, are the following:

• Ewald Banse — Geography
• Ernst Otto Beckmann — Chemistry
• August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius — Zoology and Botany
• Johann Heinrich Blasius — Zoology
• Rudolf Blasius — Bacteriology
• Caesar Rudolf Boettger — Zoology
• Victor von Bruns — Medicine
• Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell — Chemistry and Metallurgy
• Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind — Mathematics
• Carl Georg Oscar Drude — Botany
• Manfred Eigen — Biophysical chemistry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967
• Theodor Engelbrecht — Physiology
• Herbert Freundlich — Chemistry
• Robert Fricke — Mathematics
• Kurt Otto Friedrichs — Mathematics
• Karl Theophil Fries — Chemistry
• Gustav Gassner — Botany
• Carl Friedrich Gauß — Mathematics
• Karl Heinrich Gräffe — Mathematics
• Heiko Harborth — Mathematics
• Wolfgang Hahn — Mathematics
• Robert Hartig — Forestry
• Theodor Hartig — Forestry
• Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig — Entomology
• Adolph Henke — Pharmacology
• Wilhelm Henneberg — Chemistry
• Nikolaus Hofreiter — Mathematics
• Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger — Zoology
• Henning Kagermann — Physics
• Klaus von Klitzing — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
• Friedrich Ludwig Knapp — Chemistry
• August Wilhelm Knoch — Physics
• William F. Martin — Botany
• Rainer Moormann — Physical chemistry
• Justus Mühlenpfordt — Nuclear physics
• Adolph Nehrkorn — Ornithology
• Agnes Pockels — Chemistry
• Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels — Physics
• Mark Ronan — Mathematics
• Ferdinand Schneider — Chemistry
• Gerhard Schrader — Chemistry
• Kornelia Smalla — Chemistry
• Sami Solanki — Astronomy
• Hans Sommer — Mathematics
• Ferdinand Tiemann — Chemistry
• Heinrich Emil Timerding — Mathematics
• Julius Tröger — Chemistry
• Irene Wagner-Döbler — Microbiology
• Gerd Wedler — Chemistry
• Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann — Anatomy and Entomology
• Arend Friedrich Wiegmann — Botany
• Georg Wittig — Chemistry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979
• Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann — Zoogeography

• Johann Joachim Eschenburg — Literary history
• Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke — Theology and Philosophy
• Christoph Luetge — Philosophy
• Willy Moog — Philosophy
• Neal R. Norrick — English Linguistics
• Werner Pöls — History
• Nina Ruge — German language and literature
• Gustav Anton von Seckendorff — Philosophy and Aesthetics
• Gerhard Vollmer — Philosophy
• Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae — Poetry

• Theodor Geiger — Sociology
• Jakob Mauvillon — Military science
• Ulrich Menzel — Political science
• Alfred Vierkandt — Ethnology and Sociology

• Oliver Blume — Mechanical engineering
• Adolf Busemann — Aerospace engineering
• Heinrich Büssing — Engineering
• Meinhard von Gerkan — Architecture
• Walter Henn — Architecture
• Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer — Architecture
• Boris Laschka — Aeronautical engineering
• Erwin Otto Marx — Electrical engineering
• Dieter Oesterlen — Architecture
• August Orth — Architecture
• Carl Theodor Ottmer — Architecture
• Roland Rainer — Architecture
• Ernst Sagebiel — Architecture
• Hermann Schlichting — Aeronautical engineering
• Kurt Tank — Aeronautical engineering
• Constantin Uhde — Architecture
• Friedrich Voss — Civil engineering
• Ludwig Winter — Architecture

• Carl Friedrich Echtermeier — Sculpture
• Gottlieb Elster — Sculpture
• Georg Ferdinand Howaldt — Sculpture