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Dieter Baumann

Dieter Baumann, German long-distance runner born 1965 in Blaustein; 1992 Olympic 5000 m champion, 1988 silver, 1994 European champion; German records at 3000 m and 10,000 m; 1999 nandrolone case; retired 2003.

Dieter Bimberg

Dieter Bimberg is a German physicist known for the quantum dot laser and quantum-dot nanophotonics, who held the applied solid state physics chair at TU Berlin.

Dieter Bohlen

Dieter Bohlen (born 1954, Berne or Oldenburg, Germany) is a German pop composer, producer, and singer behind Modern Talking with Thomas Anders and Blue System, and longtime head juror of Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Das Supertalent.

Dieter Braun

Dieter Braun, born 1970, is a German biophysicist who has been Professor of Systems Biophysics at LMU Munich since 2007, known for thermophoresis and laboratory models of molecular evolution at the origin of life.

Dieter Brummer

Dieter Kirk Brummer (1976–2021), Australian actor, played Shane Parrish on Home and Away (1992–1996), winning Logies in 1995 and 1996; later Trevor Haken in Underbelly and Troy Miller in Neighbours; died in Glenhaven, Sydney, aged 45.

Dieter Cremer

Dieter Cremer (1944–2017) was a German theoretical and computational chemist known for the Unified Reaction Valley Approach, local vibrational modes, and NESC relativistic methods, and a professor at SMU in Dallas.

Dieter Dengler

Dieter Dengler (1938–2001) was a German-born US Navy pilot shot down over Laos in 1966 who escaped after five months as a prisoner and received the Navy Cross.

Dieter Egli

Dieter Egli, also known as Dietrich M. Egli, is a Swiss-born molecular biologist and Columbia University professor known for research on genome stability and gene editing in human embryos.

Dieter Enders

Dieter Enders (1946–2019) was a German organic chemist who led the Institute of Organic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen and created the SAMP/RAMP chiral auxiliaries known as Enders reagent.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Dieter F. Uchtdorf (born 1940) is a German-born apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who served in the First Presidency from 2008 to 2018 after a Lufthansa career.

Dieter Freise

Dieter Freise (1945-2018), German field hockey defender and dentist from HC Heidelberg; won gold with West Germany at the 1972 Munich Olympics, beating Pakistan 1-0 in the final, and earned 86 caps.

Sep 20, 2026

Dieter Gallwitz

Dieter Gallwitz is a German molecular biologist who discovered the yeast Ypt/Rab-GTPases, key regulators of vesicle trafficking, and directed a Max Planck Institute department in Göttingen.

Oct 20, 2026

Dieter Grahn

Dieter Grahn (born 1944, Sobótka/Zobten) is a German rower and coach; East German coxless four Olympic champion 1968 and 1972, world champion 1966 and 1970, later Bundestrainer of the German men's eight.

Dieter Häussinger

Dieter Häussinger, born 1951 in Nördlingen, is a German hepatologist who discovered the liver's intercellular glutamine cycle, shaped the modern concept of hepatic encephalopathy, and directed Düsseldorf University Hospital's gastroenterology clinic from 1994 to 2020.

Oct 10, 2026

Dieter Held

Dieter Held is a German mathematician in finite group theory who discovered the sporadic Held group in 1969 while characterizing the Mathieu group M24, and later became a professor at Mainz University.

Dieter Jaksch

Dieter Jaksch is an Austrian theoretical quantum physicist who has been Professor of Physics at the University of Hamburg since 2021 and works on ultracold atoms and quantum information.

Oct 20, 2026

Dieter Kottysch

Dieter Kottysch (30 June 1943 – 9 April 2017) was a West German amateur boxer, 1972 Munich Olympic light-middleweight gold medalist, beating Wiesław Rudkowski 3-2; first West German Olympic boxing champion after World War II.

Oct 20, 2026

Dieter Krause

Dieter Krause (1936–2020), East German flatwater canoeist; won gold in the one-off K1 4×500 m kayak relay at Rome 1960 for the unified German team, later a sports official and revealed Stasi informant.

Dieter Laser

Dieter Laser (1942-2020), German stage and film actor; German Film Award in Gold 1975 for John Glückstadt; reporter Tötges in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum; Dr. Josef Heiter in The Human Centipede (2009).

Oct 10, 2026

Dieter Meschede

Dieter Meschede (born 1954) is a German experimental physicist known for controlling individual atoms with light at the University of Bonn, and President of the German Physical Society from 2018 to 2020.

Sep 20, 2026

Dieter Neher

Dieter Neher is a physicist who has been Professor of Soft Matter Physics and Optoelectronics at the University of Potsdam since 1998, studying organic and perovskite solar cells.

Dieter Oesterhelt

Dieter Oesterhelt (1940–2022) was a German biochemist who discovered bacteriorhodopsin, the first known microbial rhodopsin, laying the basis for optogenetics and winning the 2021 Albert Lasker Award.

Oct 10, 2026

Dieter Pohl

Dieter W. Pohl (born 1938) is a physicist who invented the scanning near-field optical microscope at IBM Zurich, whose 1982-1984 group broke the Abbé diffraction limit by a factor of 10.

Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams (born 1932, Wiesbaden) is the German industrial designer who led Braun design from 1961 to 1995, co-founded Vitsoe, created the SK 4, 606 shelving, and the Ten Principles for Good Design, "less, but better."

Dieter Richter

Dieter Richter, born 1947 in Hannover, is a German physicist known for using neutron spin-echo spectroscopy to measure polymer motion, directing neutron-scattering institutes at Forschungszentrum Jülich from 1989 to 2015.

Dieter Riedel

Dieter Riedel, born 1947, is a German former footballer who played as a winger for SG Dynamo Dresden and won Olympic gold with East Germany in 1976.

Dieter Schubert

Dieter Schubert is a German former rower who rowed in the 'Dresden Four' and won Olympic gold in the men's coxless fours for East Germany in 1968 and 1972.

Dieter Schwarz

Dieter Schwarz (born 1939, Heilbronn) is a German entrepreneur who built Lidl & Schwarz into the Schwarz Group, parent of the Lidl discount stores and Kaufland hypermarkets.