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 (1943–2015), President of Creighton University and Jesuit
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), German poet and philosopher, younger brother of August Wilhelm, known as Friedrich.
- Karl Schlegel (aviator) (1893–1918), German World War I flying ace
- Lynda Schlegel-Culver (born 1969), 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
- Richard L. Schlegel (1927–2006), American LGBT rights activist
- Victor Schlegel (1843–1905), German mathematician
See also[edit]
- All pages with titles beginning with Schlegel