Deetz (surname)
Deetz is a surname, derived, either, from the name of a village/town, "Deetz", in Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, or, from a variant from the German "Deth" or some other short form of an old personal name formed with Old High German "Diot", meaning 'people' or 'nation'.
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Notable people with the surname include:
- Arthur Deetz (1826–1897), German actor and theatre director
- Dean Deetz (born 1993), American baseball player
- James Deetz (1930–2000), American anthropologist (see also Deetzian).
- Stanley A. Deetz (born 1948), American communication scholar
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