# Fritiof

Friðþjófur (variations: Fritiof, Frithiof, Fritjof, Frithjof, and Fridtjof) is a Scandinavian masculine given name derived from Old Norse: friðr + þjófr, transl. 'peace' and 'thief'. Bearers of the name include:

## Iceland

* The hero of Frithiof's Saga, an Icelandic saga finalized around 1300

## Norway

* Frithjof M. Plahte (1836–1899), Norwegian merchant and landowner
* Frithjof Prydz (1841–1935), Norwegian judge
* Carl Frithjof Smith (1859–1917), Norwegian-German painter
* Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian explorer
** Fridtjof Nansen (disambiguation), things named in his honor
* Fritjof Heyerdahl (1879–1970), Norwegian engineer and industrial leader
* Frithjof Olsen (1882–1922), Norwegian gymnast
* Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl (1885–1959), Norwegian pianist and composer
* Frithjof Olstad (1890–1956), Norwegian rower
* Frithjof Sælen (gymnast) (1892–1975), Norwegian gymnast
* Frithjof Andersen (1893–1975), Norwegian wrestler
* Fridtjof Knutsen (1894–1961), Norwegian journalist and crime novelist
* Fridtjof Paulsen (1895–1988), Norwegian speed skater
* Frithjof Lorentzen (1896–1965), Norwegian fencer
* Fridtjof Mjøen (1897–1967), Norwegian actor
* Carl Fridtjof Rode (1897–1984), Norwegian judge
* Frithjof Ulleberg (1911–1993), Norwegian footballer
* Frithjof Jacobsen (1914–1999), Norwegian diplomat
* Frithjof Tidemand-Johannessen (1916–1958), Norwegian designer and writer
* Frithjof Clausen (1916–1998), Norwegian wrestler
* Frithjof Sælen (writer) (1917–2004), Norwegian writer
* Fridtjof Frank Gundersen (born 1934), Norwegian jurist
* Leif Fritjof Måsvær (born 1941), Norwegian politician
* Frithjof Prydz (athlete) (1943–1992), Norwegian ski jumper and tennis player
* Fridtjof Røinås (born 1994), Norwegian racing cyclist
* Fridtjof Støre, singer for Norwegian band Albino Superstars (formed in 2004)

## Sweden

* Frithiof Holmgren (1831–1897), Swedish physician and physiologist
* Frithiof Mårtensson (1884–1956), Swedish wrestler
* Fritiof Domö (1889–1961), Swedish landlord and politician
* Fritiof Karlsson (1892–1984), Swedish politician
* Fritiof Nilsson Piraten (1895–1972), Swedish author
* Fritiof Svensson (1896–1961), Swedish wrestler
* Elof Fritjof Hillén (1893–1977), Swedish soccer player
* Frithiof Rudén, Swedish footballer
* Fritiof Billquist (1901–1972), Swedish film actor
* Tage Fritjof Erlander (1901-1985), Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969
* Fritjof Lager (1905–1973), Swedish politician
* Fritiof S. Sjöstrand (1912–2011), Swedish physician and histologist
* Fritiof Enbom (1918–1974), Swedish railway worker
* Fritiof Andersson, title character of "Fritiof och Carmencita", a 1937 Swedish song written by Evert Taube
* Fritiof Björkén (born 1991), Swedish footballer

## Denmark

* Fritiof Andersen (1898–1954), Danish track and field athlete

## Finland

* Frithiof Nevanlinna (1894–1977), Finnish mathematician

## Germany

* SMS Frithjof (laid down 1890), German coastal defense ship
* Frithjof Henckel (born 1950), German rower
* Frithjof Schmidt (born 1953), German politician for the Greens
* Frithjof Kleen (born 1983), German sailor
* Frithjof Seidel (born 1997), German diver

## Switzerland

* Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), Swiss metaphysician

## United States

Norwegian descent
* Karl Fritjof Rolvaag (1913–1990), American politician
Swedish descent
* Fritiof Fryxell (1900–1986), American geologist and mountain climber
Austrian descent
* Frithjof Bergmann (1930–2021), German-American philosopher
* Fritjof Capra (born 1939), American physicist, ecologist, and systems theorist

## Antarctica

* Fridtjof Island, lying in the Palmer Archipelago