Detlef is a

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of German origin. It is also spelled

Detlev Detlev is a German given name. It is a spelling variant of Detlef. People with this name Notable people with this name include: *Detlev Blanke (born 1941), interlinguistics lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin *Detlev Bronk (1897–1975), ...

People with this name

Notable people with this name include: *

Detlef Bothe Detlef Bothe (born 9 December 1957) is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by popula ...

(born 1957), East German sprint canoeist *

(born 1965), German actor *

Detlef Bruckhoff Detlef Bruckhoff (born 8 April 1958) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made a total of 16 Bundesliga appearances for Tennis Borussia Berlin and Darmstadt 98 Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 e.V., commonly known ...

(born 1958), retired German footballer * Detlef Enge (born 1952), former East German football player *

Detlef Gerstenberg 300px, Detlef Gerstenberg on 20 May 1984 in Karl-Marx-Stadt Detlef Gerstenberg (5 March 1957 – 24 January 1993) was a hammer thrower from East Germany, who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics for his native country. Born in Eisenhüttenstadt, ...

(1957–1993), East German hammer thrower * Detlef Gromoll (1938–2008), German mathematician *

Detlef Grumbach Detlef Grumbach (born 1955 in Detmold) is a German author and journalist. Life After school Grumbach worked as a journalist. Topics of his works are literary critic, LGBT, Human sexuality, sexuality, AIDS and events in life of people. Grumbach wr ...

(born 1955), German author and journalist *

Detlef Hofmann Detlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five ...

(born 1963), German sprint canoeist * Detlef Kästner (born 1958), East German boxer *

Detlef Kübeck Detlef Kübeck (born 22 February 1956 in Schwerin, Bezirk Schwerin) is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. At the 1982 European Championships he won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay with teammates Thomas ...

(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 (1919–2008), German pianist *

Detlef Laugwitz Detlef Laugwitz (1932–2000) was a German people, German mathematician and historian, who worked in differential geometry, history of mathematics, functional analysis, and non-standard analysis. Biography He was born on 11 May 1932 in Breslau, W ...

(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 (born 1963), retired German NBA basketball player *

Detlef Siebert Detlef Siebert is a German television writer, director and producer, working in the United Kingdom. Biography Siebert began his career at the BBC as assistant producer of the 1997 documentary series '' The Nazis: A Warning from History''. He wro ...

, German television writer, director and producer, working in the UK * Detlef Soost (born 1970), German dancer and choreographer *

Detlef Thorith Detlev Thorith (27 September 1942 – 18 July 2019)
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(born 1942), 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