Kachel is a German surname meaning "
tile
Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, Rock (geology), stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, wal ...
". Notable people with the surname include:
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Chris Kachel
Chris Kachel (born 19 June 1955) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
Kachel won the 1977 Fair Play Trophy tournament in Switzerland defeating Heinz Günthardt
Heinz Peter Günthardt (; born 8 February 1959) is a retired t ...
(born 1955), Australian former professional tennis player
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Józef Kachel (1913–1983), Polish Boy Scouts scoutmaster and politician
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Marie Kachel Bucher
Marie Elizabeth Kachel Bucher (November 21, 1909 – July 27, 2008) was an American school-teacher and the last surviving resident member of the German Seventh-Day Baptists religious congregation of the Ephrata Cloister, a United States Nat ...
(1909–2008), American schoolteacher and last surviving resident member of the German
Seventh-Day Baptists
Seventh Day Baptists are Baptists who observe the Sabbath as the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as a holy day to God. They adopt a theology common to Baptists, profess the Bible as the only rule of faith and practice, perform the conscious b ...
religious community of the
Ephrata Cloister
The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The grounds of the community are now owned by the Commonwealth of P ...
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German-language surnames