# 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
* Joan Thiele (born 1991), Italian singer-songwriter
* 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'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