Friedl is a Southern German diminutive variation of the name Fried - or alternately, a diminutive of the feminine given names

Elfriede Elfriede, also known as Elfreda, Elfrida, Alfrida, Aelfrida, Elfrieda, Elftrude, Elftraut among other variants, is a female given name, derived from ''Ælfþryð'' (Aelfthryth) meaning "elf-strength". The name fell out of fashion in the Middle Age ...

and Frederika. Notable people with the name include:

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Friedl Behn-Grund Friedl Behn-Grund (26 August 1906 – 2 August 1989) was a German cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, mus ...

(1906–1989), German cinematographer *

Friedl Czepa Friedl Czepa (1898–1973) was an Austrian stage, film and television actress. Czepa made her film debut in 1935, and went on to appear in roughly thirty cinema and television films during her career. Along with Oskar Sima, Fred Hennings and Leni ...

(1898–1973), Austrian actress *

Friedl Däuber Friedl Däuber (5 January 1911 – 1 May 1997) was a German alpine and cross-country skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. He was born and died in Berchtesgaden Berchtesgaden () is a municipality in the district Berchte ...

(1911–1997), German alpine and cross-country skier *

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Frederika "Friedl" Dicker-Brandeis (30 July 1898, Vienna – 9 October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau), was an Austrian artist, designer and educator murdered by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. From 1919-1923 she was a student a ...

(1898–1944), Austrian artist and educator *

Friedl Haerlin Friederike "Friedl" Haerlin (29 December 1901 – 17 April 1981) was a German stage and film actress. During the 1930s she worked in cinema playing glamorous roles, mainly in comedy films. In the late 1930s, in order to boost her flagging career, ...

(1901–1981), German actress *

Friedl Hardt Friedl Hardt (28 January 1919 – 11 June 1991) was a German actress. Selected filmography * ''The Tiger Akbar'' (1951) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1952) * ''Arena of Death'' (1953) * '' Hooray, It's a Boy!'' (1953) * '' The Three from the Fill ...

(1919–1991), German actress * Friedl Iby (1905–1960), German gymnast * Friedl Kjellberg (1905-1993), Austrian-born Finnish ceramist *

Friedl Kubelka Friedl Kubelka (née Bondy, née vom Gröller) (born 1946) is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946. Her photographic practice has been attributed to a 20th-century movement known as Feminist Actio ...

(orn 1946), British-Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist *

Friedl Murauer Friedl Murauer (born 4 July 1938) is an Austrian hurdler. She competed in the women's 80 metres hurdles at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rom ...

(born 1938), Austrian hurdler *

Friedl Rinder Friedl Rinder (née Benzinger) (November 20, 1905, in Schrobenhausen – June 3, 2001) was a German woman chess master. Rinder won the 1st Women's German championship at Stuttgart 1939. She took 4th place in the 7th Women's World Chess Championsh ...

(1905–2001), German chess master

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* Franz R. Friedl (1892–1977), Austrian composer *

René Friedl René Friedl (born 17 July 1967 in Friedrichroda) is an East German East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunifi ...

(born 1967), East German-German luger *

Sigmund Friedl Sigmund Friedl (1851, Lipník nad Bečvou, Moravia – 1914, Vienna) was one of the most famous Austrian philatelists. Toward the end of his life he defrauded stamp collectors by selling them forgeries. Sigmund Friedl's interest in postage stamps ...

(1851–1914), Austrian philatelist, stamp dealer and forger *

T. J. Friedl Terry Lee "TJ" Friedl (born August 14, 1995) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). After playing college baseball for the Nevada Wolf Pack baseball, Nevada Wolf Pack, he signed wi ...

(born 1995), American baseball player *

Marco Friedl Marco Friedl (born 16 March 1998) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a left-back and centre-back for Bundesliga club Werder Bremen which he captains. He also plays for the Austria national team. Club career Youth career Fri ...

(born 1998), Austrian footballer *

Thomas Peter Friedl Thomas Peter Friedl (born January 3, 1967, in Munich) is a Germans, German media entrepreneur and film producer. Biography He started his career in the film industry in 1989 at Germany’s media house Constantin Film. Until 2008, Friedl was memb ...

(born 1967), German film producer

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