Detlef is a

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origin. It is also spelled Detlev.

People with this name

Notable people with this name include: * Detlef Bothe (canoeist) (born 1957), East German sprint canoeist * Detlef Bothe (actor) (born 1965), German actor * Detlef Bruckhoff (born 1958), retired German footballer *

Detlef Enge Detlef Enge (born 12 April 1952) is an East Germany, East German former association football, football player who played in the DDR-Oberliga for 1. FC Magdeburg. He won the Oberliga championship three times, the East German Cup—FDGB-Pokal— ...

(born 1952), former East German football player * Detlef Franke (1952–2007), German Egyptologist * Detlef Gerstenberg (1957–1993), East German hammer thrower *

Detlef Gromoll Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in differential geometry. Biography Gromoll was born in Berlin in 1938, and was a classically trained violinist. After living and attending school in Rosdorf and grad ...

(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 Detlef Kirchhoff (born 21 May 1967 in Halberstadt) is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He won the medals at the international rowing competitions. He competed at four Olympic ...

(born 1967), German rower *

Detlef Kraus Detlef Kraus (30 November 1919 – 7 January 2008) was a German pianist. He was an internationally known interpreter of the music of Johannes Brahms. Born in Hamburg, Kraus gave his first concert at the age of 16, playing '' The Well-Tempered ...

(1919–2008), German pianist * Detlef Laugwitz (1932–2000), German mathematician *

Detlef Lewe Detlef Lewe (20 June 1939, Dortmund – 1 October 2008)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 Detlef Schrempf (born January 21, 1963) is a German-American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies from 1981 to 1985, and was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) by the ...

(born 1963), retired German NBA basketball player * Detlef Siebert, German television writer, director and producer, working in the UK *

Detlef Soost Detlef Soost (born 2 July 1970), also using the name D! (formerly ''Dee!''), most often called Detlef D! Soost, is a German television personality, dancer and Choreography, choreographer who gained recognition as one of the jury members of the ...

(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 Detlef Wagenknecht (born 3 January 1959) is a German former middle-distance runner. Representing East Germany, he was a finalist in men's 800 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1982 European Athletics Championships, 1982 European Champio ...

(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 {{given name German masculine given names Masculine given names