Thiers
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Thiers is a French surname. Notable persons with the surname include:
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- Adolphe ThiersAdolphe ThiersMarie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French politician and historian. was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871...
(1797–1877), French statesman and historian - Louisa Thiers (1814–1926), American supercentenarianSupercentenarianA supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
- Harry D. ThiersHarry D. ThiersHarry Delbert Thiers, born January 22, 1919 in Fort McKavett, Texas, died August 8, 2000 in Ohio, was an American mycologist who studied and named a great many fungi of native to North America, particularly California. Thiers taught mycology at San Francisco State University for many years, and a...
(1919–2000), American mycologistMycologyMycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicinals , food and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or... - Emiel Thiers, co-founder of VerdinasoVerdinasoThe Verdinaso was an authoritarian and fascist-inspired political party in Belgium and the Netherlands during the 1930s...
- Manfred Thiers, bassist for Moti SpecialMoti SpecialMoti Special was a German New Wave band, formed in 1981 in Hamburg, by Danish guitar player Nils Tuxen, Romanian keyboard player Michael Cretu, bassist/vocalist Manfred "Thissy" Thiers and drummer Reinhard "Dickie" Tarrach. All of the members had previous experience as session musicians...
See also
- The Thiers wallThiers wallThe Thiers wall was the last of the defensive walls of Paris. It was an enclosure constructed between 1841 and 1844 under a law enacted by the government of the French prime minister, Adolphe Thiers. It covered , along the 'boulevards des Maréchaux' of today...
, built as part of the Fortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuriesFortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuriesThe fortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries comprise:*The Thiers Wall, surrounding the city of Paris, and farther from the city,*The detached forts and their complementary fieldworks.They were built in two stages:...
by Adolphe Thiers.
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- Samuel O. ThierSamuel O. ThierSamuel Osiah Thier is professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard University.He previously served as the president of Brandeis University from 1991–1994 and the president of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1994-97...
(born 1937), professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard University - TierTierTIER may refer to:* Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, one of two major economic research institutes in TaiwanTier may refer to:* a layer or ranking or classification-group in any real or imagined hierarchy...