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), record executive and composer, "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, on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
  • 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
  • Joan Thiele (born 1991), Italian singer-songwriter
  • Johan Rudolph Thiele (1736–1815), Danish book printer
  • Johannes Thiele (zoologist) (1860–1935), German zoologist, and curator of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin
  • Johannes Thiele (chemist) (1865–1918), chemist at LMU 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 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 and mathematician, associated with insurance company Hafnia
  • Timmy Thiele (born 1991), German footballer
  • Ulf Thiele (born 1971), German politician
  • 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's interpolation formula defines a rational function, expressed as a continued fraction, that interpolates a given set of values
  • 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: a river in Switzerland: see Thielle and its upstream name Orbe
  • Thiel (disambiguation)
  • Tiele (disambiguation)
  • Teale

References