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, 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 Ages and was ...

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. Selected filmography References External links

* 1906 births 1989 deaths German cinematographers People from Połczyn-Zdrój People from the Province o ...

(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 Len ...

(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 Berchtes ...

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

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Frederika "Friedl" Dicker-Brandeis (30 July 1898, in Vienna – 9 October 1944, in Auschwitz-Birkenau), was an Austrian artist and educator murdered by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Biography Frederika Dicker was born in ...

(1898–1944), Austrian artist and educator *

Friedl Haerlin 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, she attempte ...

(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 Friedl Iby (6 April 1905 – 18 April 1960) was a German gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movement ...

(1905–1960), German gymnast *

Friedl Kjellberg Friedl Kjellberg ( Holzer, from 1932 Holzer-Kjellberg; 24 October 1905 — 11 September 1993) was an Austrian-Finnish ceramicist, noted especially for her work with the so-called 'rice grain' method of porcelain-making. Career Friedl Holzer st ...

(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 Action ...

(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 ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Ol ...

(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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René Friedl René Friedl (born 17 July 1967 in Friedrichroda) is an East German-German luger who has competed during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won two medals in the mixed team event at the FIL World Luge Championships with a gold in 1993 ...

, 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 stamp ...

, Austrian philatelist, stamp dealer and forger * T. J. Friedl (born 1995), American baseball player *

Marco Friedl Marco Friedl (born 16 March 1998) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back for Bundesliga club Werder Bremen and the Austria national team. Club career Youth career Friedl began his youth career at hometo ...

(born 1998), Austrian footballer *

Thomas Peter Friedl Thomas Peter Friedl (born January 3, 1967 in Munich) is a 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 member of the ...

, German film producer

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