Brandes

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

• Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes (1961-2001), 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
• 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 (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 (born 1926), German painter
• 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

• Brand (surname)
• Brandeis
• Brandis (surname)