Platen (surname)

Platen is a German-language surname. People with the surname include:

• Angelika Platen (born 1942), German photographer
• August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796-1835), German poet and dramatist
• Baltzar von Platen (inventor) (1898–1984), Swedish inventor
• Dubislav Friedrich von Platen (1714–1787), Prussian officer in Frederick the Great's army
• Filip Julius Bernhard von Platen (1732–1805), Swedish-German politician and field marshal
• Flockina von Platen (1903–1984), German actress
• Carl Constantin Platen (1843– 1899, German naturalist and collector