Scheele is a surname of Germanic origin. Notable people with the surname include: *

Carl Wilhelm Scheele Carl Wilhelm Scheele (, ; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a Swedish Pomerania, German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified the elements molybd ...

(1742–1786), German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist *

George Heinrich Adolf Scheele George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864) was a German botanist and 19th century explorer. He was an expert on spermatophytes Scheele was the first person to classify '' Cucurbita texana''. ;California An important part of his botanical spec ...

(1808–1864), German botanist * Karin Scheele (b. 1968), Austrian politician; member of the European Parliament since 1999 * Leonard A. Scheele (1907–1993), American physician; Surgeon General of the United States, 1948-56 *

Nick Scheele Sir Nicholas Vernon Scheele Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG (3 January 1944 – 18 July 2014) was an English business executive who served as president, from 2001–05, and Chief Operating Officer (COO), from 2001–04, of the Ford Motor ...

(1944–2014), British businessman; chief operating officer of Ford Motor Company * Thomas von Scheele (b. 1969), Swedish table tennis player

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