Friedländer (Friedlander, or Friedlaender) is a
toponymic surname
A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name, derived from any of German places named
Friedland.
The surname may refer to:
People
Friedländer
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Adolf Albrecht Friedländer (1870–1949), Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
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Adolph Friedländer (1851–1904), German lithographer, printer of circus posters and magazines
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Albert Friedländer (1888–1966), German bank director, later French and Swiss author
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Benedict Friedlaender
Benedict Friedlaender (8 July 1866 – 21 June 1908; first name occasionally spelled Benedikt) was a German Jewish sexologist, sociologist, economist, volcanologist, and physicist.
Life
Friedlaender was born in Berlin as the son of Carl Fr ...
(1866–1908), German sexologist, sociologist, and physicist
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Carl Friedländer
Carl Friedländer (19 November 1847, Brieg (Brzeg), Silesia – 13 May 1887, Meran (Merano), County of Tyrol) was a German pathologist and microbiologist who helped discover the bacterial cause of pneumonia in 1882. He also first described thro ...
(1847–1887), German pathologist and microbiologist
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David Friedländer
David Friedländer (sometimes spelled Friedlander; 6 December 1750, Königsberg – 25 December 1834, Berlin) was a German banker, writer and communal leader.
Life
Communal leader and author in Berlin, a pioneer of the practice and ideology of ...
(1750–1834), German writer, manufacturer
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Eitan Friedlander
Eitan Friedlander (also "Fridlander"; ; born September 21, 1958) is an Israeli former Olympic sailor. Friedlander and Shimshon Brokman won the 1972 420 International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championship in West Germany, th ...
(born 1958), Israeli Olympic sailor
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Friedrich Friedländer (1825–1901), Czech-German Jewish painter
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Gerhart Friedlander (1916–2009), German chemist
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György Szepesi-Friedländer
György () is a Hungarian language, Hungarian version of the name ''George (given name), George''. Some notable people with this given name:
* György Alexits (1899–1978), Hungarian mathematician
* György Almásy (1867–1933), Hungarian asiol ...
(1922), Hungarian radio personality and sports executive
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Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992), graphic artist, painter
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Julius Friedländer (disambiguation)
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Ludwig Friedländer
Ludwig Henrich Friedlaender (16 July 1824 – 16 December 1909) was a German philologist. He was one of the preeminent scholars of Ancient Rome of his time and is known for his research on Roman daily life and customs. He was a professor at Albe ...
(1824–1909), German philologist
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Margot Friedländer (1921–2025), German survivor of the Holocaust and public speaker
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Marguerete Friedländer (1896–1985), German and American ceramist
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Max Friedländer (disambiguation)
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Max Jakob Friedländer
Max Jakob Friedländer (5 July 1867 in Berlin – 11 October 1958 in Amsterdam) was a German-Jewish museum curator and art historian. He was a specialist in Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, who volunteered at the Kupfers ...
(1867–1958), German museum curator and art historian
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Michael Friedländer
Michael Friedländer (29 April 1833 – 10 December 1910) was an Orientalist and principal of Jews' College, London. He is best known for his English translation of Maimonides' '' Guide to the Perplexed'', which was the most popular such trans ...
(1833–1910), Orientalist and principal of Jews' College, London
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Michael W. Friedlander (1928–2021), American physicist
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Oskar Friedländer, Austrian philosopher
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Paul Friedländer (disambiguation)
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Rebecca Friedländer (1783-1850), German novelist and short-story writer
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Richard Friedländer (1881–1939), German Jewish merchant
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Salomo Friedlaender
Salomo Friedlaender (4 May 1871 – 9 September 1946) was a German-Jewish philosopher, poet, satirist and author of grotesque and fantastic literature. He published his literary work under the pseudonym Mynona, which is "''anonym''", the German wo ...
(1871–1946), German philosopher
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Saul Friedländer
Saul Friedländer (; born October 11, 1932) is a Czech-born Jewish historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.
Biography
Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews. He was raised in France and lived thr ...
(born 1932), Israeli historian
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Vera Friedländer (1928–2019), German writer and Holocaust survivor
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Walter Friedländer (1873–1966), art historian
Friedlander
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Albert Friedlander (1927–2004), American rabbi
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Beau Friedlander, American writer, publisher, and media consultant
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Camilla Friedländer (1862–1928), Austrian painter
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Dagobert Friedländer (1826–1904), banker and member of the House of Lords of Prussia
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Elizabeth Friedländer (1903–1984), German born designer
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Eric Friedlander
Eric Mark Friedlander (born January 7, 1944) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at University of Southern California. He is best known for his works in algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, algebraic K-theory and r ...
(born 1944), American mathematician
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Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City.
A veteran of New York City's experimental downtown scene, Friedlander has worked in many contexts, but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with sax ...
(born 1960), American musician
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Ernie Friedlander (born 1935), Holocaust survivor and is Australian-Jewish activist
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Erwin Friedlander (1925–2004), American expert in high-energy nuclear physics
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Frederick Gerard Friedlander (1917–2001), German British mathematician
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Günther Friedländer (1902–1975), pharmacist, botanist, pharmacognosist, food chemist, and industrialist
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Hans-Peter Friedländer (1920–1999), Swiss football forward
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Hedwig Friedländer (1856–1937), Austrian painter
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Henry Friedlander
Henry Egon Friedlander (24 September 1930 – 17 October 2012) was a German-American Jewish historian of the Holocaust who was noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust.
Born in Berlin, Germany, to a ...
(1930–2012), German-American historian
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Hugo Friedlander (1850s–1928), New Zealand businessman and local politician
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Isaac Friedlander
Isaac Friedlander (c. 1823–1878) was a wheat broker and major early California land speculator who was known as the Wheat King or the Grain King.
Biography
Friedlander was born in Oldenburg, Germany, but as a child moved to Charleston, Sout ...
(1823–1878), wheat broker and California land speculator
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Israel Friedlander
Israel Friedlander, also spelled Friedlaender (8 September 1876 – 5 July 1920), was a Polish-born rabbi, educator, translator, and biblical scholar. Together with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, he was a founding adviser to a lecture series that became t ...
(1876–1920), American rabbi
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John Friedlander, Canadian mathematician
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Judah Friedlander
Judah Friedlander (born March 16, 1969) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for playing the role of writer Frank Rossitano on the NBC sitcom ''30 Rock''. Friedlander is also known for his role as Toby Radloff in the film ''Am ...
(born 1969), American comedian
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Judith Friedlander, Professor of anthropology
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Julius Reinhold Friedlander (1803–1839), German-American educator
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Kate Friedlander
Kate Friedlander (born Käte Frankl; also Käte Misch-Frankl or Kate Friedländer-Frankl; 1902–1949) was a psychoanalyst, who left Germany for England in 1933, and became a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Training and contributio ...
(1902–1949), psychoanalyst
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Lanny Friedlander (1947–2011), American publisher
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Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander (; born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fra ...
(born 1934), American photographer
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Lee Friedlander (film director), American film director
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Leo Friedlander
Leo Friedlander (July 6, 1888 – October 24, 1966) was an American sculpture, sculptor, who created several prominent works.
Early life and education
At 12 years old, Friedlander studied at the Art Students League of New York, Art Students Lea ...
(1888–1966), American sculptor
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Leslie Friedlander, cantor
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Louis Friedlander (1901–1962), American independent film and television director known as Lew Landers
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Liz Friedlander
Liz Friedlander (born December 9, 1970) is an American music video, television director and television producer.
Originally from New York City, Friedlander moved to Pennsylvania to attend the Drama Conservatory school at Carnegie Mellon Universit ...
, American film, music video and television director
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Marcus Friedlander, American rabbi
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Marti Friedlander (1928–2016), New Zealand photographer
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Matthew Friedlander (born 1979), South African cricketer
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Michael Friedlander (disambiguation)
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Miriam Friedlander (1914–2009), American politician
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Michal Friedlander, cultural historian and museum curator
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Mona Friedlander (1914–1993), British pilot
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Shems Friedlander (1940–2022), American Islamic scholar, Sufi master, visual artist, filmmaker, author and professor
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Susan Friedlander
Susan Jean Friedlander (née Poate; born January 26, 1946) is an American mathematician. Her research concerns mathematical fluid dynamics, the Euler equations and the Navier-Stokes equations.
Education
Friedlander graduated from University Coll ...
(born 1946), American mathematician
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Tony Friedlander (born 1944), New Zealand politician
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Tzvi Hersh Friedlander, Liske Hasidic rebbe
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William B. Friedlander (1884–1968), American songwriter and theater producer
Friedlaender
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Ann Fetter Friedlaender (1938–1992), American economist
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Henri Friedlaender
Henri Friedlaender (; 1904–1996) was an Israeli typographer and book designer. He co-founded the Hadassah Printing School and served as the first director of the school.
Early life
He was born in Lyon, France
France, officially the Fre ...
(1904–1996), Israeli typographer and book designer
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Helmut Friedlaender (1913–2008), American lawyer, financial adviser, and book collector
Characters
* Isiah Friedlander, minor character from
Grand Theft Auto V
''Grand Theft Auto V'' is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto, ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, following 2008's ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', and ...
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Sharon Friedlander
Sharon Friedlander is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character most often appears in X-Men stories in the Marvel Universe. Sharon first appeared in ''New Mutants'' #19 (1984). She was creat ...
, Marvel Comics character
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