Detlef
Detlef is a given name of German origin. Its variant is spelled Detlev.People with this name
Notable people with this name include:
- Detlef Bothe, East German sprint canoeist
- Detlef Bothe, German actor
- Detlef Bruckhoff, retired German footballer
- Detlef Enge, former East German football player
- Detlef Gerstenberg, East German hammer thrower
- Detlef Gromoll, German mathematician
- Detlef Grumbach, German author and journalist
- Detlef Hofmann, German sprint canoeist
- Detlef Kästner, East German boxer
- Detlef Kübeck, retired East German sprinter
- Detlef Kirchhoff, German rower
- Detlef Kraus, German pianist
- Detlef Laugwitz, German mathematician
- Detlef Lewe, West German sprint canoeist
- Detlef Lienau, German architect born in Denmark
- Detlef Lohse, German fluid mechanics researcher
- Detlef Michel, German track and field athlete
- Detlef Nebbe, SS-Hauptscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp
- Detleff Neumann-Neurode, pioneering German pediatric physical therapist
- Detlef Okrent, German field hockey player
- Detlef Pirsig, former German football player
- Detlef Quadfasel, professor of Geophysics at Niels Bohr Institute
- Detlef Raugust, German former footballer
- Detlef Richter, East German bobsledder
- Detlef Sack, professor of Comparative Political Science at Bielefeld University
- Detlef Schößler, German former footballer, now a coach
- Detlef Schmidt, West German sprint canoeist
- Detlef Schrempf, retired German NBA basketball player
- Detlef Siebert, German television writer, director and producer, working in the UK
- Detlef Soost, German dancer and choreographer
- Detlef Thorith, retired East German discus thrower
- Detlef Uhlemann, former West German distance runner
- Detlef Ultsch, former East German judoka
- Detlef Wagenknecht, East German middle-distance runner
- Detlef Weigel, German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology
- Detlef Wiedeke, German singer, composer and producer
- Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs, published findings on chemical element periodicity before Dmitri Mendeleev or Lothar Meyer
