Scheele is a surname of Germanic origin. Notable people with the surname include: *

Carl Wilhelm Scheele Carl Wilhelm Scheele (, ; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a Swedish German pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrog ...

(1742–1786), German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist *

George Heinrich Adolf Scheele George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864) was a German botanist and 19th century explorer. He was an expert on spermatophytes Scheele was the first person to classify ''Cucurbita texana''. ;California An important part of his botanical speci ...

(1808–1864), German botanist * Karin Scheele (b. 1968), Austrian politician; member of the European Parliament since 1999 * Leonard A. Scheele (1907–1993), American physician; Surgeon General of the United States, 1948-56 *

Nick Scheele Sir Nicholas Vernon Scheele KCMG (3 January 1944 – 18 July 2014) was an English business executive who served as president, from 2001–05, and Chief Operating Officer (COO), from 2001–04, of the Ford Motor Company, and also as Chancellor of ...

(1944–2014), British businessman; chief operating officer of Ford Motor Company *

Thomas von Scheele Thomas von Scheele (born March 13, 1969 in Bollnäs) is a left-handed Swedish table tennis player. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in the double event of the World Table Tennis Championsh ...

(b. 1969), Swedish table tennis player

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