Thiele

Thiele is a German-language surname.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 78.0% of all known bearers of the surname Thiele were residents of Germany, 10.9% of the United States, 2.3% of Australia, 2.0% of Brazil, 1.0% of Canada and 1.0% of South Africa.

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,741) in the following states:

• 1. Brandenburg (1:477)
• 2. Saxony-Anhalt (1:522)
• 3. Saxony (1:624)
• 4. Bremen (1:1,058)
• 5. Thuringia (1:1,132)
• 6. Lower Saxony (1:1,241)
• 7. Hamburg (1:1,465)
• 8. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:1,689)
• 9. Berlin (1:1,708)

People

• Alfonso Thiele (1922–1986), American Italian racing driver
• Allen Thiele (1940–2017), Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard
• Annekatrin Thiele (born 1984), German rower
• Arthur Thiele (1860–1936), German illustrator
• August Thiele (1894–1967), Vizeadmiral with the Kriegsmarine
• Aurelie Thiele, French professor using optimization algorithms to control costs in the healthcare industry
• Bob Thiele (1922–1996), producer and record executive, who co-composed "What a Wonderful World", and discovered Buddy Holly and the Crickets
• Bob Thiele Jr. (born 1955), American musician and music producer, son of Bob
• Carol J. Thiele, American microbiologist and cancer researcher
• Charles Thiele (1884–1954), American-Canadian bandmaster, musician and industrialist
• Colin Thiele (1920–2006), Australian writer of popular children's stories, including Storm Boy
• Dave Thiele (born circa 1952), Canadian politician
• Edwin R. Thiele (1895–1986), missionary and archaeologist, best known for his Old Testament chronology
• Ernest Thiele (1895–1993), influential chemical engineer
• Fred W. Thiele Jr. (born 1953), American politician
• Fritz Thiele (1894–1944), German member of the 20 July conspiracy to kill Hitler
• Gerhard Thiele (born 1953), ESA astronaut and geophysicist, who was on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission in February 2000
• Georg Thiele (1881–1914), Imperial German Navy officer
• Hans Thiele, Filipino professional basketball player
• Heinz Hermann Thiele (1941–2021), German businessman and chairman of Knorr-Bremse
• Hertha Thiele, German actress
• Holger Thiele (1878–1946), Danish-American astronomer
• Ilse Thiele (1920–2010), East German politician
• Jacob Thiele, musician for the rock group The Faint
• Johan Rudolph Thiele (1736–1815), Danish book printer
• Johannes Thiele (1860–1935), German zoologist, and curator of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin
• Johannes Thiele (chemist) (1865–1918), chemist at the university of Munich
• Jürgen Thiele (born 1959), German rower
• Just Mathias Thiele (1795–1874), Danish writer and art historian
• Keith Thiele (1921–2016), New Zealand World War II pilot
• Kevin Thiele (born 1959), Australian botanist and taxonomist
• Klaus Thiele (born 1958), German athlete
• Leslie Thiele, American political scientist
• Neville Thiele, Australian Engineer, known for having simplified and made into practical approach the algorithms for calculating loudspeaker cabinets similarly as Richard H. Small (thus Thiele/Small loudspeaker parameters)
• Ria Thiele (1904–1996), German actress, dancer and choreographer
• Rolf Thiele (1918–1994), German film director
• Rüdiger Thiele (born 1943), German mathematician and historian of mathematics
• Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910), Danish astronomer, mathematician, and statistician, one of the founders of the insurance company Hafnia
• Timmy Thiele (born 1991), German footballer
• Walter Thiele (born 1921), German inventor
• Walter G. Thiele (1885–1968), associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
• Wilhelm Thiele (1890–1975), Austrian screenwriter and film director

Other uses

• Thiele (Aar), a river of Hesse, Germany, tributary of the Aar
• Thiele modulus, in Chemistry
• Thiele tube, laboratory glassware
• German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele, built for the German Navy during the mid-1930s
• 1586 Thiele, a minor planet

See also

• Thiele or Thièle Fheel: a river in Switzerland: see Thielle and its upstream name Orbe
• Thiel (disambiguation)
• Tiele (disambiguation)
• Teale