# Dietrich

Dietrich (German pronunciation: ) is an ancient German name meaning "ruler of the people", but also "keeper of the keys" or "lockpick" (either the tool or the profession).

## Given name

* Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg (c. 1398–1440)
* Thierry of Alsace (German: Dietrich; 1099–1168), Count of Flanders
* Dietrich of Ringelheim (9th century), Saxon count and father of St Matilda
* Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), German Lutheran pastor and theologian
* Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock (1672–1757), Prussian field marshal and cavalry leader
* Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637/39–1707), Danish-German composer and organist
* Dietrich von Choltitz (1894–1966), German General and last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944
* Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923), German politician
* Dietrich Enns (born 1991), American baseball player
* Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012), German baritone singer
* Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977), German Catholic philosopher and theologian
* Dietrich Hollinderbäumer (born 1942), German-Swedish actor
* Dietrich Keller (born 1943), German retired basketball player
* Dietrich Mateschitz (1944-2022), Austrian businessman, co-founder of Red Bull
* Dietrich Mattausch (born 1940), German actor
* Dietrich von Saucken, German general
* Dietrich Stobbe (1938–2011), German politician
* Dietrich Thurau (born 1954), German cyclist
* Dietrich Grunewald (1916–2003), Swedish American artist and designer

## Surname

* Albert Dietrich (1829–1908), German composer and conductor
* Albert Gottfried Dietrich (1795–1856), German botanist
* Amalie Dietrich (1821–1891), German naturalist and museum collector
* August Dietrich (1858–?), American politician
* Brandon Dietrich (born 1978), Canadian ice hockey player
* Craig Dietrich (born 1980), American digital artist and educator
* Dena Dietrich (1928–2020), American actress
* Derek Dietrich (born 1989), American baseball player
* Fritz Dietrich (1905–1945), German musicologist and composer
* Fritz Dietrich (Nazi) (1898–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes
* Gabriele Dietrich (born 1943), German-Indian scholar and philosopher
* Guillermo Dietrich (born 1969), Argentine politician
* Jacob Dietrich (1857–1932), American politician
* John H. Dietrich (1878–1957), Unitarian humanist minister
* Klaus Dietrich (born 1974), Austrian footballer
* Louise Dietrich (1878–1962), American nurse
* Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992), German-American actress, singer and entertainer
* Otto Dietrich (1897–1952), German SS officer
* Philippe Friedrich Dietrich (1748–1793), French scientist and politician
* Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966), German Waffen-SS general
* Tyler Dietrich (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey coach
* Wilhelm Dietrich (1911–1944), German Waffen SS major
* William E. Dietrich (born 1950), American geomorphologist
* William S. Dietrich II (1938–2011), American industrialist and philanthropist
* Yevgeny Dietrich (born 1973), 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

## Other uses

* Dietrich, Idaho, United States
* Dietrich, Pennsylvania
* Dietrich Industries
* Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Carnegie Mellon University
* Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Pittsburgh
* Dietrich Inc.