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'''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:<ref name="thiele2014">[http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/thiele#surnames Thiele surname distribution]</ref>
* 1. [[Brandenburg]] (1:477)
* 2. [[Saxony-Anhalt]] (1:522)
* 3. [[Saxony]] (1:624)
* 4. [[Bremen (state)|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 (zoologist)|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

==See also==
* '''Thiele''' or '''Thièle''': a river in Switzerland: see [[Thielle]] and its upstream name [[Orbe (river)|Orbe]]
* [[Thiel (disambiguation)]]
* [[Tiele (disambiguation)]]
* [[Teale]]

==References==
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[[Category:German-language surnames]]