title: Vollenweider
text: # Vollenweider
  
  Vollenweider is a Swiss surname: A topographic name for someone who lives by a field named as being a pasture reserved for foals, from Middle High German vole ‘foal’ (plural volen) + weide ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’.
  
  * Andreas Vollenweider (born 1953), Swiss musician
  * Hans Vollenweider (1908–1940), criminal and last person to be sentenced to death and executed in Switzerland
  * Jim Vollenweider (1939–1998), American football halfback
  * Richard Vollenweider (1922–2007), Swiss-born Canadian limnologist
  * Rodolfo Vollenweider (1917–2009), Argentine sailor
  