Thiers is a French place name and surname, with the variants Thier and Tier. It may refer to:

People

Adolphe Thiers Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( ; ; 15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republic. Thi ...

(1797–1877), French statesman and historian * , co-founder of

Verdinaso Verdinaso (''Verbond van Dietsche Nationaal-Solidaristen'', ), sometimes rendered as Dinaso, was a small fascist political movement active in Belgium and, to a lesser extent, the Netherlands between 1931 and 1941. Verdinaso was founded by Jori ...

Harry D. Thiers Harry Delbert Thiers (January 22, 1919, in Fort McKavett, Texas – August 8, 2000, in Ohio) was an American mycologist who studied and named many fungi native to North America, particularly California. Thiers taught mycology at San Francisco ...

(1919–2000), American mycologist *

Jean du Thiers Jean du Thiers, seigneur de Beauvoir (died 1559) was Minister of Finance for Henry II of France and a Secretary of State. He was a great humanist and protector of the poet Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard. He bought the Château de Beaure ...

(died 1559), French Minister of Finance under Henri II * Louisa Thiers (1814–1926), American

supercentenarian A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until short ...

* Manfred Thiers, bassist for

Moti Special Moti Special was a German new wave band, formed in 1981 in Hamburg, by Danish guitar player Nils Tuxen, German-Romanian keyboardist Michael Cretu, bassist/vocalist Manfred "Thissy" Thiers, and drummer Reinhard "Dickie" Tarrach, all of whom had ...

Saint Stephen of Thiers Stephen of Muret () (1045 – 8 February 1124) was the founder of the Abbey of Grandmont (the mother house) and the Order of Grandmont. Hagiography Serious chronological difficulties are presented by the traditional story of his early life (pr ...

, medieval Saint of the Roman Catholic Church

Variants

* Samuel O. Thier (born 1937), American medical professor *

Steffen Thier Steffen Thier (born 25 November 1980)
accessed: 6 March 2010 is a German

(born 1980), German rugby union player *

Henry de Thier Henri Dumont (also Henry Du Mont, originally Henry de Thier) (1610 – 8 May 1684) was a baroque composer of the French school, born in the Southern Netherlands. Life Dumont was born to Henry de Thier and Elisabeth Orban in Looz (Borgloon). The ...

or Henri Dumont (1610–1684), baroque composer *

Floris De Tier Floris De Tier (born 20 January 1992) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. Major results ;2010 : 4th Gent–Menen : 8th Ronde van Vlaanderen ...

(born 1992), Belgian racing cyclist *

Kai Tier Kai Tier is a Melbourne-based standup comic/actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or ...

, Australian comedian and actor * Nancy Hopkins Tier (1909–1997), American aviator *

Nigel Tier Nigel G Tier (born 3 October 1958) is an English retired badminton player. Career He won the bronze medal at the 1985 IBF World Championships in mixed doubles with Gillian Gowers. Tier represented England and won a gold medal in the team eve ...

(born 1958), English badminton player

Places in France

Canton of Thiers The canton of Thiers is an administrative division of the Puy-de-Dôme department, central France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Thiers. It consists of the foll ...

, Puy-de-Dôme, in the eponymous arrondissement **

Arrondissement of Thiers The arrondissement of Thiers is an arrondissement of France in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 44 communes. Its population is 56,245 (2021), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissemen ...

, Puy-de-Dôme **

Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme Thiers (; Auvergnat: ''Tièrn'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Puy-de-Dôme Departments of France, department of Auvergne (region), Auvergne in central France. With Ambert, Issoire and Riom, it is one of the department's four sub-prefec ...

, a commune in the eponymous canton *

Thiers, Marseille Thiers () is a neighbourhood () of the 1st arrondissement of Marseille. A cultural and student quarter in the centre of Marseille, it is located between Place Jean-Jaurès and La Canebière, near the Vieux-Port. Description The centre of the di ...

, neighbourhood of the 1st arrondissement of Marseille *

Thiers-sur-Thève Thiers-sur-Thève is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. Th ...

, a commune in the Oise department

Other uses

President Thiers Bank President Thiers Bank is a broad guyot, which lies northwest of Rapa and southeast of Raivavae, in the Austral Islands. Its summit reaches a depth of . It may have been created by the Macdonald hotspot. Another theory sees in the seamount ...

, a bank and seamount near Rapa Iti in French Polynesia *

SA Thiers Sports Athlétiques Thiernois Football is a French association football club founded in 1935. They are based in the town of Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme and their home stadium is the Parc des Sports Antonin Chastel. The first team was relegated from 2019 ...

, a French soccer team * Thiers Coal Mine,

Bruay-sur-l'Escaut Bruay-sur-l'Escaut (, literally ''Bruay on the Escaut'') is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Geography Bruay-sur-l'Escaut is 6 km north of Valenciennes on the left bank of the river Scheldt (): Bruay-sur-l'Escaut = ...

, Nord, France *

Thiers' law In economics, Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good". For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commo ...

(''good money drives out bad'') * Thiers wall, a defensive wall in Paris