title: Mertel
text: # Mertel
  
  Mertel is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Elias Mertel (ca. 1561–1626), German lutenist and composer
  * Teodolfo Mertel (1806–1899), lawyer and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  * Heinz Mertel (born 1936), German sport shooter
  