Dieter

Dieter or dieter may refer to:

• A person committed to dieting

People

Dieter is a German given name, a short form of Dietrich, from theod+ric "people ruler", see Theodoric. Rarely, it is a German form of the given name Theodore.

Given name

• Dieter Althaus (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 (1938–2001), American Vietnam War veteran
• Dieter Fuchs (born 1940), German football player, manager and coach.
• Dieter Dierks (born 1943), German musician
• Dieter Eiselen (born 1996), South African American football player
• Dieter Fox (born 1966), German roboticist
• Dieter Gerhardt (born 1935), Soviet spy
• Dieter Haack (born 1934), German politician
• Dieter Hallervorden (born 1935), German comedian
• Dieter Thomas Heck (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 Laser (1942–2020), German actor
• Dieter Lüst (born 1956), German physicist
• Dieter Meier (born 1945), Swiss musician
• Dieter Nuhr (born 1960), German comedian
• Dieter Rams (born 1932), German industrial designer
• Dieter Ruehle (born 1968), American sports organist
• Dieter Schnebel (1930–2018), German composer
• Dieter Thoma (born 1969), German ski jumper
• Dieter F. Uchtdorf (born 1940), German aviator, airline executive, and religious leader
• Dieter Versen (1945–2025), German football player
• Dieter Wisliceny (1911–1948), German Nazi SS officer and perpetrator of the Holocaust executed for war crimes
• Dieter Zetsche (born 1953), German engineer and businessman

Surname

• Bernie Dieter, German cabaret artist, songwriter, and performance artist
• Giovanni Battista Dieter (1903–1955), German bishop
• Hermann Dieter (1879–?), German architect
• Paul Dieter (born 1959), American sound engineer and record producer
• Robert J. Dieter (born 1946), American lawyer and diplomat
• Walter Dieter (1916–1988), Canadian First Nations leader
• William John Dieter (1912–1942), American airman

Fictional

• Dieter, a recurring character on Saturday Night Live played by Mike Myers and host of a fictional German television show skit called Sprockets
• Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds played by August Diehl

Other

• 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

See also

• Dietrich (disambiguation)
• Hans-Dieter / Hans Dieter
• Theodoric

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