Schlegel is a German occupational surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony Schlegel (born 1981), former American football linebacker * August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), German poet, older brother of Friedrich * Brad Schlegel (born 1968), Canadian ice hockey player * Bernhard Schlegel (born 1951), German-Canadian chemist and professor at Wayne State University * Carmela Schlegel (born 1983), retired Swiss swimmer * Catharina von Schlegel (1697 – after 1768), German hymn writer * Dorothea von Schlegel (1764–1839), German novelist and translator, wife of Friedrich Schlegel * Elfi Schlegel (born 1964), former Canadian gymnast and sportscaster for NBC Sports * Frits Schlegel (1896–1965), Danish architect * Gustaaf Schlegel (1840–1903), Dutch sinologist and field naturalist * Hans Schlegel (born 1951), German astronaut * Helmut Schlegel (born 1943), German Franciscan, priest, author, meditation instructor, songwriter * Hermann Schlegel (1804–1884), German ornithologist and herpetologist * Johan Frederik Schlegel (1817–1896), Danish civil servant and Governor-General of the Danish West Indies * Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721–1793), German poet and clergyman, father of August Wilhelm and Friedrich * Johann Elias Schlegel (1719–1749), German critic and dramatic poet, brother of Johann Adolf * John P. Schlegel (born 1943), President of Creighton University and Jesuit * Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), German poet and philosopher, younger brother of August Wilhelm * Karl Schlegel (aviator) (1893–1918), German World War I flying ace * Lynda Schlegel-Culver, Republican politician from Pennsylvania * Margarete Schlegel (1899–1987), German actress * Marvin Schlegel, German athlete * Norbert Schlegel (born 1961), German former footballer and coach * Paul Marquard Schlegel 1605–1653), German anatomist * Richard Schlegel, American scientist and professor, chair of the department of pathology at Georgetown University * Victor Schlegel (1843–1905), German mathematician

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