Diesel

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Diesel may refer to:

Technology

• Diesel fuel
• Diesel engine
• Diesel cycle
• Diesel exhaust
• Diesel (game engine)
• Diesel (programming language), successor of Cecil

Names

Given names and nicknames

• Diesel Dahl (born 1959), drummer and co-founder of the Norwegian hard rock band TNT
• David S. LaForce or "Diesel", cartographer and illustrator
• John Riggins or "The Diesel", NFL football player
• Greg Williams (Australian footballer) or "Diesel", Australian-rules footballer
• "Diesel", a former ring name of American professional wrestler Kevin Nash
• Glenn Jacobs, American wrestler once known as "Fake Diesel" and now better known as Kane
• Joe Riggs or "Diesel", mixed martial artist
• Shaquille O'Neal or "The Diesel", a retired American basketball player
• Brett Keisel or "Diesel", NFL football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Diesel (dog), a Malinois (Belgian Shepherd Dog) which was killed in an attack on an ISIS flat in Paris in November 2015

Surnames

• Nathanael Diesel (1692–1745), Danish composer, violinist and lutenist
• Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German engineer; inventor of the namesake Diesel engine
• Vin Diesel (born 1967), American actor; Stage name of Mark Vincent Sinclair

Music

• Diesel (band), a Dutch band
• Udora (band) or Diesel, a Brazilian alternative rock band
• Diesel (musician), an Australian rock singer-songwriter

Other uses

• Diesel (film), a 1942 German film
• Diesel, a 1985 film by Robert Kramer
• The Diesel (aka D261), a character in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
• Diesel, a character from The Railway Series
• Diesel (Cannabis), a subset of sativa-dominant Cannabis strains
• Diesel cigars, a brand manufactured by A. J. Fernandez Cigars
• Diesel, a variety of the beer cocktail Snakebite
• 10093 Diesel, an asteroid named after Rudolf Diesel
• Diesel (brand), an Italian clothing company
• Operation Diesel, a 2009 NATO military operation in Afghanistan