Oertel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Brigitte Oertel (born 1953), German fencer Chuck Oertel (1931–2000), American baseball player F. O. Oertel (1862–1942), German-born British engineer, architect and archaeologist Friedrich Meyer-Oertel (born 1936), German opera director Horst Oertel (1871–1956), Canadian pathologist Johannes Adam Simon Oertel (1823–1909), German-American Episcopal clergyman and artist John James Maximilian Oertel (1811-1882), German-American journalist. Max Joseph Oertel (1835–1897), German physician Rudi Oertel (1926–2009), German diver Waldtraut Oertel (1936–2026), German diver
See also Ertel Ertl