Dietrich
Dietrich is an ancient German name meaning "ruler of the people", but also "keeper of the keys" or "lockpick".
Given name
- Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders
- Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg
- Dietrich of Ringelheim, Saxon count and father of St Matilda
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor and theologian
- Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock, Prussian field marshal and cavalry leader
- Dieterich Buxtehude, Danish-German composer and organist
- Dietrich von Choltitz, German General and last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944
- Dietrich Eckart, German politician
- Dietrich Enns, American baseball player
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone singer
- Dietrich Grunewald, Swedish American artist and designer
- Dietrich von Hildebrand, German Catholic philosopher and theologian
- Dietrich Hollinderbäumer, German-Swedish actor
- Dietrich Keller, German retired basketball player
- Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman, co-founder of Red Bull
- Dietrich Mattausch, German actor
- Dietrich Opitz, German assyriologist
- Dietrich Reinkingk, German constitutional lawyer and politician
- Dietrich von Saucken, German general
- Dietrich Stobbe, German politician
- Dietrich Thurau, German cyclist
- Dietrich Wortmann, German wrestler
Surname
- Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor
- Albert Gottfried Dietrich, German botanist
- Amalie Dietrich, German naturalist and museum collector
- August Dietrich, American politician
- Brandon Dietrich, Canadian ice hockey player
- Craig Dietrich, American digital artist and educator
- Dena Dietrich, American actress
- Derek Dietrich, American baseball player
- Fritz Dietrich, German musicologist and composer
- Fritz Dietrich , German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes
- Gabriele Dietrich, German-Indian scholar and philosopher
- Guillermo Dietrich, Argentine politician
- Hermann Dietrich, German politician
- Jacob Dietrich, American politician
- John H. Dietrich, Unitarian humanist minister
- Klaus Dietrich, Austrian footballer
- Louise Dietrich, American nurse
- Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress, singer and entertainer
- Otto Dietrich, German SS officer
- Philippe Friedrich Dietrich, French scientist and politician
- Sepp Dietrich, German Waffen-SS general
- Suzy Dietrich, American amateur sports car racing driver
- Tyler Dietrich, Canadian ice hockey coach
- Wilhelm Dietrich, German Waffen SS major
- William E. Dietrich, American geomorphologist
- William S. Dietrich II, American industrialist and philanthropist
- Yevgeny Dietrich, Russian politician
Fictional characters
- Ian Dietrich, member of the Garrison Regiment in the series Attack on Titan
- Dietrich von Bern, hero of Germanic legend based on Dietrich the Great
- Colonel Dietrich, Nazi colonel in Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Arthur Dietrich, erudite police detective from the ABC sitcom Barney Miller
- Dietrich, a claymore soldier having the rank 8 in the manga Claymore
- Dietrich Zimmermann, a soldier in the Alan Gratz novel Allies
- Dietrich von Lohengrin, an antagonist in the Trinity Blood light novel series and its anime adaptation.
- Dietrich Kluge the fictional leader of the Illuminati in the Netflix adult animated series Inside Job