Diesel

Diesel may refer to:

Science and technology

• Diesel fuel
• Diesel engines and associated technologies:
  • Diesel cycle
  • Diesel–electric transmission
  • Diesel exhaust
  • Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF)
  • Diesel particulate filter (DPF)
• And associated applications:
  • Diesel aircraft engine
  • Diesel generator
• 10093 Diesel, an asteroid named after Rudolf Diesel

Transport

• Diesel locomotive
• Diesel multiple unit (DMU)
• Dieselisation, term for the replacement of steam locomotives by diesel locomotives in the 1930s to 1960s.
• Diesel motorcycle

In fiction

• Diesel (fictional locomotive)

People

By surname

• Nathanael Diesel (1692–1745), Danish composer, violinist and lutenist
• Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German engineer; inventor and namesake of the term diesel
  • Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille, since 1953, an award by the German Institute for Inventions

By nickname

• Diesel (musician), born Mark Lizotte, Australian rock singer-songwriter
• Diesel (musician), born Jared Williams, an American rapper-songwriter
• Diesel (wrestler), ring name for Kevin Nash, an American professional wrestler
• Diesel Dahl (born 1959), drummer and co-founder of the Norwegian hard rock band TNT
• Glenn Jacobs, American wrestler once known as "Fake Diesel", now known as Kane
• Brett Keisel or "Diesel", NFL football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• David S. LaForce or "Diesel", cartographer and illustrator
• Shaquille O'Neal or "The Diesel", retired American basketball player
• John Riggins or "The Diesel", NFL football player
• Joe Riggs or "Diesel", mixed martial artist
• Greg Williams (Australian footballer) or "Diesel", Australian-rules footballer
• Vin Diesel (born 1967), American actor; stage name of Mark Vincent Sinclair

Companies and brands

• Diesel (brand), an Italian clothing company
• Diesel cigars, a brand manufactured by A. J. Fernandez Cigars
• Diesel Locomotive Works, largest diesel-electric locomotive manufacturer in India.
• MAN Diesel, German manufacturer of large-bore diesel engines
• Wichmann Diesel, Norwegian manufacturer of diesel engines

Entertainment

• Diesel, a character from The Railway Series books
  • Diesel and Diesel 10, characters in the spinoff TV series Thomas & Friends
• Diesel (band), a Dutch band
• Diesel, former name of Udora (band) a Brazilian alternative rock band
• Diesel (film), a 1942 German film
• Diesel, a 1985 film by Robert Kramer
• Diesel and Dust, the sixth studio album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, 1987
• Diesel Boy, punk rock band from Santa Rosa, California
• Diesel Brothers, American reality television series
• Diesel Park West, English alternative rock band from Leicester, England.
• Dieselpunk, genre similar to steampunk that incorporates the aesthetics of the diesel technology
• Full Diesel, hard rock/Metal band from Finland
• Strictly Diesel, debut album by the American industrial metal band Spineshank
• Diesel (game engine), a computer gaming technology

Other uses

• Diesel, a variety of the beer cocktail Snakebite
• Diesel (cannabis), a subset of sativa-dominant Cannabis strains
• Diesel (dog), a Malinois killed in an attack on an ISIS flat in Paris in November 2015
• Diesel therapy, a form of punishment in which prisoners are shackled and transported for long periods
• Operation Diesel, a 2009 NATO military operation in Afghanistan

See also

• Dießl, a surname