Brandes

Brandes is a German surname and Jewish surname, and may refer to:


 * Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes (1961-2001), German cannibalism victim
 * Bruno Brandes (1910–1985), German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdB, MdL Niedersachsen
 * Charles Brandes, American money manager
 * Christian Brandes (born 1971), German politician (Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive)
 * David Brandes (born 1968), German musician
 * Detlef Brandes (born 1941), German historian and professor at Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf
 * Dietmar Brandes (born 1948), German botanist, professor and librarian
 * Eddo Brandes, cricketer from Zimbabwe
 * Edvard Brandes (1847–1931), Danish Cultural politician and editor and co-founder of the newspaper Politiken, brother of Georg Brandes
 * Ernst Brandes (1758–1810), German lawyer
 * Ernst Brandes (1862–1935), German lawyer, estate manager and politician
 * Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes (1844-1892), Danish economist and newspaper editor
 * Esther Charlotte Brandes (1742–1786), actress
 * Georg Brandes (1842–1927), Danish writer and literature critic, brother of Edvard Brandes
 * Gustav Brandes (1842–1941), German zoologist
 * Heinrich Brandes (1803–1868), German landscape painter
 * Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (1777–1834), German astronomer, mathematician and physicist
 * Jan Laurens Andries Brandes (1857-1905), Dutch historian
 * Johann Christian Brandes (1735–1799), German dramatist
 * John Brandes (born 1964), American football player
 * Lothar Brandes (born 1926), German painter
 * Raymond S. Brandes (1924-2014), American archeologist and historian
 * Rudolph Simon Brandes (1795–1842), German naturalist and pharmacist
 * Werner Brandes (1889–1968), German cameraman
 * Wilhelm Brandes (1854–1928), German writer
 * Will Brandes (1928–1990), German pop singer
 * Winfried Brandes (born 1942), managing director of 'Prussian Memorial Institute e.V.'