Detlef is a given name of German language origin. It is also spelled Detlev.
People with this name
Notable people with this name include:
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Detlef Bothe (canoeist) (born 1957), East German sprint canoeist
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Detlef Bothe (actor) (born 1965), German actor
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Detlef Bruckhoff (born 1958), retired German footballer
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Detlef Enge (born 1952), former East German football player
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Detlef Franke (1952–2007), German Egyptologist
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Detlef Gerstenberg (1957–1993), East German hammer thrower
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Detlef Gromoll (1938–2008), German mathematician
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Detlef Grumbach (born 1955), German author and journalist
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Detlef Hofmann (born 1963), German sprint canoeist
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Detlef Kästner (born 1958), East German boxer
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Detlef Kübeck (born 1956), retired East German sprinter
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Detlef Kirchhoff (born 1967), German rower
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Detlef Kraus (1919–2008), German pianist
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Detlef Laugwitz (1932–2000), German mathematician
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Detlef Lewe (1939–2008), West German sprint canoeist
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Detlef Lienau (1818–1887), German architect born in Denmark
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Detlef Lohse (born 1963), German fluid mechanics researcher
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Detlef Michel (born 1955), German track and field athlete
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Detlef Nebbe (1912–1972), SS-Hauptscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp
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Detleff Neumann-Neurode (1879–1945), pioneering German pediatric physical therapist
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Detlef Okrent (1909–1983), German field hockey player
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Detlef Pirsig (1945–2019), former German football player
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Detlef Quadfasel, professor of geophysics at Niels Bohr Institute
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Detlef Raugust (born 1954), German former footballer
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Detlef Richter (born 1956), East German bobsledder
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Detlef Sack (born 1965), professor of Comparative Political Science at Bielefeld University
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Detlef Schößler (born 1962), German former footballer, now a coach
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Detlef Schmidt (born 1958), West German sprint canoeist
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Detlef Schrempf (born 1963), retired German NBA basketball player
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Detlef Siebert, German television writer, director and producer, working in the UK
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Detlef Soost (born 1970), German dancer and choreographer
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Detlef Thorith (1942–2019), retired East German discus thrower
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Detlef Uhlemann (born 1949), former West German distance runner
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Detlef Ultsch (born 1955), former East German judoka
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Detlef Wagenknecht (born 1959), East German middle-distance runner
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Detlef Weigel (born 1961), German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology
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Detlef Wiedeke (born 1950), German singer, composer and producer
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Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs (1836–1923), published findings on chemical element periodicity before Dmitri Mendeleev or Lothar Meyer
