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:Thiele surname distribution Brandenburg (1:477) Saxony-Anhalt (1:522) Saxony (1:624) Bremen (1:1,058) Thuringia (1:1,132) Lower Saxony (1:1,241) Hamburg (1:1,465) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:1,689) 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
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