Florian (name)

Florian is a masculine given name borrowed from the ancient Roman name Florianus. The name means 'flower'. It is the name of the patron saint of Poland and Upper Austria.

Florian is a common name in Austria, Germany and Switzerland

Masculine variants and related names

Masculine variants

• Florian German, Polish, French (from Italian or German)
• Floriano Italian and Portuguese
• Florianus Latin
• Florián Spanish
• Flórián Hungarian

Related names

• Florencio Spanish
• Fiorino Italian
• Florin Albanian, Romanian
• Florinus Latin
• Florus Latin
• Flurin Romansch^[1]
• Флор (Flor) Russian
• Ծաղիկ (Dzaghig) Armenian

Given name

• Saint Florian (died ca. 304), a Christian saint, and the patron saint of Poland
• Bernhard, Arnold, and Florian Abel, Florian Abel was a painter in the middle of the 16th century
• Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein (1656–1721), the Prince of Liechtenstein
• Florian Abrahamowicz (born 1961), an Austrian-born priest who has been superior of the Society of St. Pius X in Italy
• Florian Andrighetto (born 1953), an Australian politician
• Florian Armstrong (born 1971), Birth name of Dido, a popular British singer

• Florian Bague (born 1984), a French football goalkeeper
• Florian Ballhaus (born 1965), a German cinematographer who has worked on several recent major Hollywood releases
• Florian Balmer (born 1979), an independent software developer living in Switzerland
• Florian Bellanger (born 1968), a French Pastry Chef living in USA, judge on Food Network TV show "Cupcake Wars"
• Florian Berisha (born 1990), a Kosovo football midfielder
• Florian Bertmer, a German illustrator from the Hardcore punk, grindcore and metal scene
• Florian Biesik (born 1849), created a literary standard for the Wymysorys language, trying to prove it did not derive from German origin
• Florian Bollen, chairman of Great Wheel Corporation and Singapore Flyer Pte. Ltd.
• Florian Boucansaud (born 1981), a French professional football defender
• Florian Brandner, a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe
• Florian Bruns (born 1979), a German football midfielder
• Florian Côté (1929–2002), a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
• Florian Cajori (born 1859), one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in his day
• Florian Cazalot (born 1985), a rugby union player, who plays as prop or hooker for Section Paloise
• Florian Ceynowa (1817–1881), doctor, political activist, writer, linguist
• Florian Chmielewski (born 1927), a Minnesota musician, politician, a former legislator, and a former President of the Minnesota Senate
• Florian Clara (born 1988), an Italian luger who has competed since 2005
• Florian Dan Lăcustă (born 1977), a Romanian professional footballer
• Florian Dick (born 1984), a German football defender
• Florian Dinhopel (born 1987), an Austrian ice hockey player currently playing for Graz 99ers
• Florian Fricke (1944–2001), a German musician who started his professional career with electronic music
• Florian Fritsch (born 1985), a German professional golfer who currently plays on the Challenge Tour
• Florian Fritz (born 1984), a French rugby union footballer
• Florian Fromlowitz (born 1986), a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Hannover 96
• Florian Gallenberger (born 1972), an Academy Award-winning German film director
• Stefan Florian Garczyński (1805–1833), a Polish patriot and Romantic poet, a passionate Messianist
• Florian Geyer (1490–1525), also known as "Florian Geier from Giebelstadt", was a Franconian nobleman, diplomat and knight
• Florian Goebel (1972–2008), a German astrophysicist attached to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich
• Florian Gosch (born 1980), a beach volleyball player from Austria
• Florian Grassl (born 1980), a German skeleton racer who has competed since 2002
• Florian Gruber (born 1983), a German auto racing driver
• Florian Grzechowiak (1914–1972), a Polish basketball player
• Florian Guay, a politician in Quebec, Canada and a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec
• Florian Habicht (born 1975), a New Zealand film director
• Florian Hart (born 1990), an Austrian footballer who currently plays for LASK Linz
• Florian Havemann (born 1952), the son of East German dissident Robert Havemann
• Florian Hecker, an electronic music composer
• Florian Heller (born 1982), a German football player
• Johann Florian Heller (1813–1871), an Austrian chemist who was one of the founders of clinical chemistry
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (born 1973), an Oscar-winning Austrian-German director and screenwriter
• Florian Homm (born 1959), a financier, proprietary trader, investment manager, investment banker, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur
• Florian Hube (born 1980), a German football player
• Florian Hufsky (1986–2009), an Austrian new media artist, political activist, founder and former board member of the Pirate Party of Austria
• Florian Iberer (born 1982), an Austrian ice hockey player who currently plays for EHC Black Wings Linz of the Austrian Hockey League
• Florian Jarjat (born 1980), a French football player
• Florian Jenni (born 1980), a Swiss chess player and International Grandmaster of chess
• Florian Johann Deller (1729–1773), an Austrian composer and violinist
• Florian Jungwirth (born 1989), a German footballer who plays as a defender for Dynamo Dresden
• Florian Just (born 1982), a German pair skater
• Florian Kehrmann (born 1977), a German handball player
• Florian Keller (born 1981), a field hockey player from Germany and the brother of Natascha Keller
• Florian Kempf (born 1956), American football player
• Florian Klein (born 1986), an Austrian football player who currently plays for Austrian team Austria Wien
• Florian Koch (born 1992), a German basketball player
• Florian Kringe (born 1982), a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hertha BSC
• Florian Kunz (born 1972), a former field hockey defender from Germany
• Florian Lampert (1863–1930), a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1918–1930
• Florian Lechner (born 1981), a German football player
• Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774), a German-speaking Bohemian opera composer
• Florian Liegl (born 1983), an Austrian ski jumper who has competed since 2000
• Florian Lucchini, a French footballer
• Florian Müller (born 1970), an author, entrepreneur, consultant, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign
• Florian Müller (footballer) (born 1986), a German football player
• Florian Mader (born 1982), an Austrian professional association football player
• Florian Maier-Aichen (born 1973), a landscape photographer based in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles, USA
• Florian Marange (born 1986), a French football defender, currently playing for AS Nancy
• Florian Marciniak (1915–1944), a Polish Scoutmaster, first Naczelnik of the Szare Szeregi during the Second World War
• Florian Marinescu, a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1980s
• Florian Maurice (born 1974), a French former football player
• Florian Mayer (born 1983), a professional male tennis player from Germany
• Florian Metz (born 1985), an Austrian international footballer who plays as a defender for LASK Linz
• Florian Meyer (born 1968), a German football referee
• Florian Mohr (born 1984), a German footballer, who currently plays for SC Paderborn 07
• Florian Myrtaj (born 1976), an Albanian footballer
• Florian Neuhold (born 1993), an Austrian footballer
• Florian Osore (born 1992), a Kenya rugby union footballer
• Florian Pilkington-Miksa (born 1950), the drummer in the original line-up of the British rock group Curved Air
• Florian Pittiş (1943–2007), a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer
• Florian Pop, a Romanian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania
• Florian Prantl, an Austrian luger who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s
• Florian Quintilla (born 1988), a rugby league player
• Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł (1715–1760), a Polish-Lithuanian szlachcic
• Florian Riedel (born 1990), a German footballer who plays as a midfielder
• Florian Roost (born 1989), a Swiss ice dancer
• Florian Rousseau (born 1974), a French former track cyclist who won three gold medals and one silver at the Summer Olympics
• Florian Süssmayr (born 1963), a German painter from Munich
• Florian Schönbeck (born 1974), a retired German decathlete
• Florian Schabereiter (born 1991), an Austrian ski jumper who has competed since 2006
• Florian Schneider (born 1947), one of the founding members of electronic music band Kraftwerk
• Florian Schulz, a professional nature and wildlife photographer based in southern Germany
• Florian Schwarthoff (born 1968), a former German hurdler, won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Florian Seidl (born 1979), an Austrian vehicle designer
• Florian Seitz (born 1982), a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres
• Florian Siwicki (born 1925), a Polish military officer, diplomat, a communist politician, and retired General of the Polish Army
• Florian Skilang Temengil (born 1986), a Palauan wrestler at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas
• Florian Slotawa (born 1972 in Rosenheim) is a German conceptual artist
• Florian Stablewski (1841–1906), a Polish priest and politician
• Florian Stahel (born 1985), a footballer from Switzerland
• Florian Stalder (born 1982), a Swiss racing cyclist with Team Volksbank
• Florian Stengg (born 1989), an Austrian freestyle skier who specializes in the skicross discipline
• Florian Sturm (born 1982), an Austrian footballer currently playing for SV Ried
• Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă (1881–1958), a Romanian psychologist
• Florian Święs (born 1939), a full professor of Biology and Earth Sciences at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
• Florian Thorwart (born 1982), a German retired football player who last played for FC Schalke 04 II
• Florian Tschögl received the honorary title “righteous among the Nations” from the Yad Vashem remembrance authority in Jerusalem
• Florian Uhlig (born 1974 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German pianist
• Florian Ungler (died 1536), a printer from Bavaria, pioneer of printing and publishing in Polish language
• Florian Vijent (1961–1989), a Dutch-Surinamese football goalkeeper
• Florian Vogel (born 1982), a Swiss professional racing cyclist
• Florian Wanner (born 1978), a German judoka
• Florian Wiek, scholarship-holder of Villa musica-Mainz where he performed chamber music with leading German musicians
• Ernst Florian Winter (born 1923), an Austrian-American historian and political scientist
• Florian ZaBach (1918–2006), an American musician and TV personality
• Florian Zamoyski (?-1510), a Polish nobleman
• Florian Zeller (born 1979), a French novelist and playwright
• Florian Zimmer, the reigning European Champion of Magic
• Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), a Polish sociologist

Surname

• Dawid Florian (born 1982), a Polish professional footballer who plays for Polish second-tier side Znicz Pruszków
• Federico De Florian (born 1921), an Italian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s
• Filip Florian (born 1968), a Romanian author
• Friedrich Karl Florian (1894–1975), the Gauleiter of Düsseldorf in Nazi Germany
• Friedrich St. Florian (born 1932), an Austrian-American architect
• Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), a French poet and romance writer
• Josef Florian (1873–1941), Czech book publisher and translator
• Kenny Florian (born 1976), a Peruvian American mixed martial artist with a background in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai
• Mircea Florian (1888–1960), Romanian philosopher
• Mircea Florian (born 1949), Romanian singer and multimedia artist
• Rick Florian (born 1962), a musician, songwriter and producer, lead singer of Contemporary Christian Music rock band Whiteheart
• Teodor Florian (born 1899), a Romanian rugby union footballer

See also

• Florian (disambiguation)

Notes

1. http://www.behindthename.com/php/related.php?name=florian