Brandes

Brandes is a German surname and Jewish surname, and may refer to:

* Bernd Jürgen Brandes (1958–2001), German cannibalism victim
* Bruno Brandes (1910–1985), German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdB, MdL Niedersachsen
* Charles Brandes, American money manager
* Christian Brandes (born 1971), German politician (Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive)
* David Brandes (born 1968), German musician
* Detlef Brandes (born 1941), German historian and professor at Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf
* Dietmar Brandes (born 1948), German botanist, professor and librarian
* Dirk Brandes (born 1974), German politician
* Eddo Brandes, cricketer from Zimbabwe
* Edvard Brandes (1847–1931), Danish Cultural politician and editor and co-founder of the newspaper Politiken, brother of Georg Brandes
* Ernst Brandes (journalist) (1758–1810), German lawyer
* Ernst Brandes (1862–1935), German lawyer, estate manager and politician
* Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes (1844–1892), Danish economist and newspaper editor
* Esther Charlotte Brandes (1742–1786), actress
* Georg Brandes (1842–1927), Danish writer and literature critic, brother of Edvard Brandes
* Gustav Brandes (1842–1941), German zoologist
* Heinrich Brandes (1803–1868), German landscape painter
* Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (1777–1834), German astronomer, mathematician and physicist
* Jan Laurens Andries Brandes (1857–1905), Dutch historian
* Johann Christian Brandes (1735–1799), German dramatist
* John Brandes (born 1964), American football player
* Lothar Brandes (1926–2011), German painter
* Peter Brandes (1944–2025), Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and photographer
* Raymond S. Brandes (1924–2014), American archeologist and historian
* Rudolph Simon Brandes (1795–1842), German naturalist and pharmacist
* Werner Brandes (1889–1968), German cameraman
* Wilhelm Brandes (1854–1928), German writer
* Will Brandes (1928–1990), German pop singer
* Winfried Brandes (born 1942), managing director of 'Prussian Memorial Institute e.V.'

## See also

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* Brand (surname)
* Brandeis
* Brandis (surname)

Surname list

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