Charlotte Niese (7 June 1854 – 8 December 1935) was a German writer, poet and teacher.

Niese was born in Burg on the island of Fehmarn, then under the direct rule of King Frederick VII of Denmark.

Niese went with her mother, then a widow, to Plön and began publishing her writings, at first under the masculine pseudonym "Lucian Bürger".

As a child she had seen that her six brothers, one of whom was the Classical scholar Benedikt Niese, were all allowed higher education and professional careers, while her father refused these to herself or her sister.

The closest she got to political activity was signing a letter of protest against the construction of a tramway line, along the street where she lived, in 1904.