title: Platen (surname)
text: # 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
  