Scheele is a surname. As a German surname, it may be derived from the Middle Low German nickname schele 'cross-eyed'.Scheele, Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands Notable people with the surname include:
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (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 (1944–2014), British businessman; chief operating officer of Ford Motor Company Thomas von Scheele (b. 1969), Swedish table tennis player
See also Scheele (crater), the lunar impact crater
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