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

See also

  • Fiddler (disambiguation)