Dieter or dieter may refer to: * A person committed to

dieting Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity. As weight loss depends on calorie intake, different kinds of calorie-redu ...

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Dieter is a German given name (), a short form of

Dietrich Dietrich () is an ancient German name meaning "Ruler of the People.” Also "keeper of the keys" or a "lockpick" either the tool or the profession. Given name * Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg (c. 1398 – 1440) * Thierry of Alsace (german: Dietr ...

, from ''theod+ric'' "people ruler", see Theodoric.

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Dieter Althaus Dieter Althaus (born 29 June 1958 in Heiligenstadt/ Eichsfeld) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 3rd Minister President of Thuringia from 2003 to 2009. In 2003/04 he was the 58th President of the B ...

(born 1958), German politician * Dieter Bohlen (born 1954), German music producer * Dieter Borsche (1909–1982), German actor * Dieter Brummer (1976–2021), Australian actor *

Dieter Dengler Dieter Dengler (May 22, 1938 – February 7, 2001) was a German-born United States Navy aviator during the Vietnam War and, following six months of imprisonment and torture, became the second captured U.S. airman to escape enemy captivity ...

(1938–2001), American Vietnam War veteran * Dieter Dierks (born 1943), German musician *

Dieter Eiselen Dieter Johann Eiselen (born June 10, 1996) is a South African-born American football center for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Yale and was signed by the Bears after the 2020 NFL Draft. Ea ...

(born 1996), South African American football player * Dieter Gerhardt (born 1935), Soviet spy * Dieter Hallervorden (born 1935), German comedian *

Dieter Thomas Heck Dieter Thomas Heck (born Carl-Dieter Heckscher; 29 December 1937 – 23 August 2018) was a German television presenter, singer and actor. He is known as the presenter of the popular TV program ''ZDF-Hitparade'', featuring German Schlager mus ...

(1937–2018), German television presenter, singer and actor * Dieter Helm (1941–2022), German farmer and politician * Dieter Hoeneß (born 1953), German football (soccer) player * Dieter Kühn (born 1956), East German football (soccer) player * Dieter Lüst (born 1956), German physicist *

Dieter Meier Dieter Meier (born 4 March 1945) is a Swiss industrialist, musician and conceptual artist. He is the frontman of the electronic music group Yello, which was co-founded (with ex-member Carlos Perón) by music producer Boris Blank. He is a vocali ...

(born 1945), Swiss musician *

Dieter Nuhr Dieter Herbert Nuhr (born 29 October 1960) is a German kabarett artist, comedian, author and television presenter. Nuhr's stage program ''nuhr in Berlin'' (the title is a pun; for explanation, see below) is the first German stand-up comedy whic ...

(born 1960), German comedian * Dieter Rams (born 1932), German industrial designer * Dieter Ruehle (born 1968), American sports organist *

Dieter Schnebel Dieter Schnebel (14 March 1930 – 20 May 2018) was a German composer, theologian and musicologist. He composed orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music and stage works. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of e ...

(1930–2018), German composer *

Hans-Dieter Sues Hans-Dieter Sues (born January 13, 1956) is a German-born American paleontologist who is Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He receiv ...

(born 1956), German-born American paleontologist, Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC *

Dieter Thoma Dieter Thoma (born 19 October 1969) is a West German/German former ski jumper. Career During that time he was the second best German ski jumper after Jens Weißflog. Thoma was not the first known ski jumper in the family: his uncle Georg Thoma wa ...

(born 1969), German ski jumper * Dieter F. Uchtdorf (born 1940), LDS leader *

Dieter Wisliceny Dieter Wisliceny (13 January 1911 – 4 May 1948) was a member of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) and one of the deputies of Adolf Eichmann, helping to organise and coordinate the wide scale deportations of the Jews across Europe during the Holocaust. ...

(1911–1948), German Nazi SS officer and perpetrator of the Holocaust executed for war crimes *

Dieter Zetsche Dieter Zetsche (; born on 5 May 1953) is a German engineer and business executive. He is the chairman of TUI AG. He was the chairman of the board of management of Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz until 22 May 2019, a role he had held since 200 ...

(born 1953), German engineer and businessman

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Giovanni Battista Dieter Msgr. Giovanni Battista Dieter, S.M., D.D., Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago, was born in Kleinhausen (Germany) on 30 September 1903. He professed the evangelical counsels on 17 April 1929 for the Society of Mary (Marists). He was ...

(1903–1955), bishop *

Paul Dieter Paul Dieter (born May 23, 1959) is an American sound engineer and record producer. He has been the staff engineer at Groove Masters, the Santa Monica, California recording studio owned by Jackson Browne, since 1990. Dieter's first major job was ...

(born 1959), sound engineer and record producer * Walter Dieter (1916–1988), Canadian First Nations leader

Fictional

* Dieter, a recurring character on ''Saturday Night Live'' played by Mike Myers and host of a fictional German television show skit called Sprockets

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* '' Dieter: Der Film'', a 2006 film about Dieter Bohlen ** ''Dieter: Der Film'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack of the film * Dieter Township, Roseau County, Minnesota, United States * the demon in Norman Mailer's book, '' The Castle in the Forest'' * Dispatch and Investment Evaluation Tool with Endogenous Renewables, an Open energy system model

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