Fridolin is a German masculine given name, derived from
Old High German
Old High German (OHG; ) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous ...
. Notable people with this name include:
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Fridolin of Säckingen, Irish missionary, apostle of the Alamanni and founder of Säckingen Abbey
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Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (born 1960), Congolese prelate of the Catholic Church
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Fridolin Anderwert (1828–1880), Swiss politician
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Fridolin Dietsche (1861–1908) was a German sculptor
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Fridolin Friedmann (1897–1976), German-Jewish educator
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Fridolin Glass (1910–1943), Austrian Nazi activist and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer
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Fridolin Hamma (1881–1969), German
luthier
A luthier ( ; ) is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.
Etymology
The word ' is originally French and comes from ''luth'', the French word for "lute". The term was originally used for makers of lutes, but it came to be ...
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Fridolin Heer (1834–1910), Swiss architect
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Fridolin Marinus Knobel (1857–1933), Dutch diplomat and politician
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Fridolin Kurmann, Swiss field hockey player
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Fridolin Leiber (1853–1912), German painter
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Fridolin Schley (born 1976), German writer
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Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, German Nazi general
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Fridolin Sicher (1490–1546), Swiss composer and organist
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Fridolin Sulser (1926–2016), Swiss-American pharmacologist
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Fridolin Wagner (born 1997), German footballer
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Fridolin Wenger, Swiss footballer
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Fridolin Yoku (born 1997), Indonesian footballer
*Fridolin Žolna, pen name of Slovene lawyer and writer
Fran Milčinski (1867–1932)
Other uses
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Volkswagen Type 147 Kleinlieferwagen
The Volkswagen Type 147 (informally Fridolin) was a panel van produced by the German automaker Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles from 1964 until 1974. The van was mainly built for the purposes of the state-owned '' Deutsche Bundespost''. , informally nicknamed the Fridolin
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Fridolin Arnault House, located in Wood-Ridge, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
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Gustav Fridolin (born 1983), Swedish writer, teacher and politician
{{Given name, Fridolin
German masculine given names
Masculine given names