Thiers is a French place name and surname. It may refer to:
Places in France
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Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme
Thiers (; Auvergnat: ''Tièrn'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department of Auvergne in central France. With Ambert, Issoire and Riom, it is one of the department's four sub-prefectures. The district of Thiers consists of forty-three municip ...
, a commune in the eponymous canton
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Canton of Thiers The canton of Thiers is an administrative division of the Puy-de-Dôme department, central France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Thiers.
It consists of the foll ...
, Puy-de-Dôme, in the eponymous arrondissement
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Arrondissement of Thiers
The arrondissement of Thiers is an arrondissement of France in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 44 communes. Its population is 56,321 (2016), and its area is .
Composition
The communes of the arrondissement ...
, Puy-de-Dôme
* Thiers-sur-Thève, a commune in the Oise department
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Thiers, Marseille
Thiers is a neighbourhood (french: quartier) of the 1st arrondissement of Marseille. A cultural and student quarter in the centre of Marseille, it is located between Place Jean-Jaurès and La Canebière, near the Vieux-Port.
Description
The cen ...
, neighbourhood of the 1st arrondissement of Marseille
People
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Adolphe Thiers
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( , ; 15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France and first President of the French Third Republic.
Thiers was a key figure in the July Rev ...
(1797–1877), French statesman and historian
* , co-founder of
Verdinaso
Verdinaso (''Verbond van Dietsche Nationaal-Solidaristen'', ), sometimes rendered as Dinaso, was a small authoritarian and fascist political party active in Belgium and, to a lesser extent, the Netherlands between 1931 to 1941.
Verdinaso was foun ...
Jean du Thiers Jean du Thiers, seigneur de Beauvoir (died 1559) was Minister of Finance for Henry II of France, and a Secretary of State.
He was a great humanist and protector of the poet Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard.
He bought the Château de Beaure ...
(died 1559), French Minister of Finance under Henri II
* Louisa Thiers (1814–1926), American
supercentenarian
A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is a person who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of major age-related diseases u ...
* Manfred Thiers, bassist for
Moti Special
Moti Special was a German new wave band, formed in 1981 in Hamburg, by Danish guitar player Nils Tuxen, Romanian keyboard player Michael Cretu, bassist/vocalist Manfred "Thissy" Thiers and drummer Reinhard "Dickie" Tarrach. All of the members ...
Samuel O. Thier
Samuel Osiah Thier (born June 23, 1937) is professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard University. He earned his medical degree at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in 1960. He previously served as the preside ...
(born 1937), American medical professor
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Steffen Thier
Steffen Thier (born 25 November 1980) accessed: 6 March 2010 is a German
(born 1980), German rugby union player
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Henry de Thier
Henri Dumont (also Henry Du Mont, originally Henry de Thier) (1610 – 8 May 1684) was a baroque composer of the French school, born in the Southern Netherlands.
Life
Dumont was born to Henry de Thier and Elisabeth Orban in Looz (Borgloon). The ...
or Henri Dumont (1610–1684), baroque composer
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Kai Tier
Kai Tier is a Melbourne-based standup comic/actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radi ...
, Australian comedian and actor
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Nancy Hopkins Tier
Nancy Hopkins Tier (May 16, 1909 – January 15, 1997) was an aviator. She was the president of the International Women's Air and Space Museum and a member of United Flying Octogenarians.
Early life
She was born as Nancy Hopkins on May 16, 19 ...
(1909–1997), American aviator
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Nigel Tier
Nigel Tier (born 1958), is a retired male badminton player from England.
Career
He won the bronze medal at the 1985 IBF World Championships in mixed doubles with Gillian Gowers.
Tier represented England and won a gold medal in the team event ...
(born 1958), English badminton player
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Floris De Tier
Floris De Tier (born 20 January 1992) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.
Major results
;2010
: 4th Gent–Menen
: 8th Ronde van Vlaanderen ...
(born 1992), Belgian racing cyclist
Other uses
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Thiers wall
The Thiers wall (''Enceinte de Thiers'') was the last of the defensive walls of Paris. It was an enclosure constructed between 1841 and 1846 and was proposed by the French prime minister Adolphe Thiers but was actually implemented by his succe ...
, a defensive wall in Paris
* Thiers Coal Mine,
Bruay-sur-l'Escaut
Bruay-sur-l'Escaut (, literally ''Bruay on the Escaut'') is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Geography
Bruay-sur-l'Escaut is 6 km north of Valenciennes on the left bank of the river Scheldt (french: Escaut): Bruay-sur ...
, Nord, France
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President Thiers Bank
President Thiers Bank is a broad guyot, which lies northwest of Rapa and southeast of Raivavae, in the Austral Islands. Its summit reaches a depth of . It may have been created by the Macdonald hotspot. Another theory sees in the seamount the ...
, a bank and seamount near Rapa Iti in French Polynesia
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SA Thiers
Sports Athlétiques Thiernois Football is a French association football club founded in 1935. They are based in the town of Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme and their home stadium is the Parc des Sports Antonin Chastel. The first team was relegated from 2019 ...
, a French soccer team
* Thiers' law (''good money drives out bad'')