Dieter

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Dieter Given Name
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Dieter or dieter can refer to:

• A person committed to dieting
• a German given name (either from Diether, Germanic theod+heri "people warrior" or a short form of Dietrich theod+ric "people ruler", see Theodoric)
  • Dieter Brummer, Australian actor
  • Dieter Dengler (1938-2001), Vietnam War veteran
  • Dieter Kühn, East German football (soccer) player
  • Dieter Hallervorden (b. 1935), German comedian
  • Dieter Lüst, physicist
  • Dieter Meier (b. 1945), Swiss musician
  • Dieter Schnebel (b. 1930), composer
• a surname:
  • Paul Dieter, sound engineer and record producer
  • Giovanni Battista Dieter, bishop
  • Walter Dieter, Canadian First Nations leader

• toponyms:
  • Dieter Township, Minnesota

• popular culture:
  • the demon in Norman Mailer's book, The Castle in the Forest
  • Dieter, a recurring character on Saturday Night Live played by Mike Myers and host of a fictional German television show skit called Sprockets.

[edit] See also

• Dietrich