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. 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 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 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 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 Hans-Dieter Sues (born 1956), German-born American paleontologist, Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC Dieter Thoma (born 1969), German ski jumper Dieter F. Uchtdorf (born 1940), LDS leader 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 Giovanni Battista Dieter (1903–1955), bishop Paul Dieter (born 1959), sound engineer and record producer Walter Dieter (1916–1988), Canadian First Nations leader Fictional Dieter, a recurring character on Saturday Night Live played by Mike Myers and host of a fictional German television show skit called Sprockets 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) Theodoric German masculine given names