Petzold

Petzold (or Petzoldt, Pezold and Pezolt) is a German surname. Notable people with the surnames include:


 * August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (1794–1859), Baltic-German painter and lithographer
 * Barbara Petzold (born 1955), East German cross-country skier
 * Charles Petzold (born 1953), American programmer and technical author
 * Christian Petzold (composer) (1677–1733), German composer and organist
 * Christian Petzold (director) (born 1960), German film director
 * Eduard Petzold (1815–1891), German landscape gardener
 * Georg Pezolt (1810–1878), Austrian painter, architect and art critic
 * Gertrude von Petzold (1876–1952), Unitarian minister
 * Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold (1794-?), French piano maker
 * Harald Petzold (born 1962), German politician
 * Klaus Petzold, German handballer
 * Konrad Petzold (1930–1999), German film director, writer and actor
 * Joachim Petzold (1913–1991), major in the Luftwaffe
 * Johann Christoph Petzold (1708–1762), German sculptor
 * Johann Christoph Pezel (also Petzold) (1639-1694), German violinist, trumpeter, and composer
 * Joseph Petzoldt (1862–1929), German philosopher
 * Larry Pezold (1893–1957), American baseball player
 * Linda Petzold (born 1954), computer scientist and mechanical engineer
 * Maik Petzold (born 1978), Germany triathlon athlete
 * Martin Petzold (1955–2023), German tenor
 * Martin Petzoldt (1946–2015), German theologian and Bach scholar
 * Paul Petzoldt (1908–1999), American mountaineer
 * Richard Petzoldt (1907–1974), German musicologist and music critic
 * Walter von Pezold (1882–1955), Estonian-German politician