Scheel is a surname. As a German surname, it may be derived from nickname schiel/schel/schele 'cross-eyed'.Scheel, Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands Notable people with the surname include: Arnd Scheel, American mathematician Ellen Scheel, Norwegian football player Frederick A. Scheel, founder of U.S. retailer Scheels Fritz Scheel (1852–1907), German-American orchestra conductor Georg Scheel, Norwegian barrister Günther Scheel (1921–1943), German Luftwaffe fighter pilot Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979), German SS physician Herman Scheel (1859–1956), Norwegian jurist; chief justice of the Supreme Court Heinrich Scheel, German architect Ingeborg Scheel, Swiss fencer Janet Scheel, American physicist John Scheel, coiner of naturopathy Jørgen Jacob Scheel (1916–1989), Danish aristocrat, soldier and ichthyologist Karl Scheel (1866–1936), German physicist Mildred Scheel (1932–1985), German doctor; second wife of Walter Walter Scheel (1919–2016), German politician and president Baron Boris Vietinghoff-Scheel (1829–1901), Russian composer
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