Detlef

Detlef is a given name of German origin. It is also spelled Detlev.

People with this name
Notable people with this name include:


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