Fiedler

Fiedler is a German word for "fiddler", and is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adolf Gottlieb Fiedler (1771–1850), German entrepreneur in Saxony and Poland
• Arkady Fiedler (1894–1985), Polish writer
• Arthur Fiedler (1894–1979), American conductor
• Bernhard Fiedler (1816–1904), German painter
• Bernold Fiedler (born 1956), German mathematician
• Bobbi Fiedler (1937–2019), American politician
• Christian Fiedler (born 1975), former German football goalkeeper
• Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), American economist
• Ellen Fiedler (born 1958), German athlete
• François Fiedler (1921–2001), Abstract Expressionist Painter
• Franz Fiedler (1885–1956), Austrian photographer
• Fred Fiedler ( 1922 –2017), industrial and organizational psychologist
  • Fiedler contingency model, a leadership theory developed by Fred Fiedler
• Fritz Fiedler (1899–1972), German automobile engineer
• Hermann Georg Fiedler (1862–1945), German scholar
• Jay Fiedler (born 1971), American football quarterback
• Jens Fiedler (canoeist), East German sprint canoeist
• Jens Fiedler (cyclist), German cyclist
• John Fiedler (1925–2005), American actor
• Joshua Fiedler (born 1978), American musician
• Konrad Fiedler (1841-1895), German art historian and writer.
• Leslie Fiedler (1917–2003), American literary critic
• Margaret Fiedler, London-based American musician
• Max Fiedler (1859–1939), German conductor and composer
• Miroslav Fiedler (1926–2015), Czech mathematician
• Patrick Fiedler (born 1953), American lawyer and judge.
• Richard Fiedler (1908–1974), German SS-Brigadeführer
• Richard Fiedler, German scientist and engineer who invented the flame thrower
• Sebastian Fiedler (born 1973), German police investigator and politician
• Wolfgang Fiedler (1951-2025), German politician