Friedrich (given name)
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PronunciationGerman: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç]
Gendermale
Meaningpeaceful ruler
Related namesFrederick, Fredrik, Federico, Frederik, ...
 Friedrich Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor | |
| Pronunciation | German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç] |
|---|---|
| Gender | male |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | peaceful ruler |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Frederick, Fredrik, Federico, Frederik, ... |
Friedrich is a German given name and the origin of the English Frederick. People with the name include:
- Friedrich Silaban (1912–1984), Indonesian architect.
- Friedrich Goldscheider (1845–1897), Bohemia-born Austrian entrepreneur, and a manufacturer of ceramics and bronze
- Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002), Russian author and screenwriter
- Friedrich Hohe (1802–1870), German lithographer and painter
- Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German poet, one of the key figures in German Romanticism
- Friedrich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), Austrian artist and architect, better known as Friedensreich Hundertwasser
- Friedrich Joloff (1908–1988), German actor
- Friedrich "Fritz" Lang (1890–1976), film maker
- Otto Friedrich Walter (1928–1994), Swiss journalist, author and publisher
- Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), German poet and philosopher, better known as Novalis
- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet and philosopher
Music
- Christian Friedrich Johannes Büttner (1979), German DJ, record producer and musician known as TheFatRat
- Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883), German composer
- Friedrich Gulda (1930–2000), Austrian pianist and composer
- Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759), German, later British, Baroque composer
- Friedrich Seitz (1848–1918), German romantic era composer
- Friedrich Smetana (1824–1884), Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood, regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music
