Waldvogel (from "forest" plus Vogel "bird", thus literally "bird of the forest") and its Ashkenazic variant Waldfogel is a Swiss German surname from a nickname denoting a carefree, easy-going person and may refer to: Waldfogel Jane Waldfogel, American social economist Joel Waldfogel (born 1962), American economist Waldvogel Anton Waldvogel (1846–1917), Austrian technician and traffic planner Christian Waldvogel (born 1971), Swiss architect Georg Waldvogel (born 1961), German ski jumper József Waldvogel (1872–1952), Austro-Hungarian general Monica Waldvogel (born 1956), Brazilian journalist Procopius Waldvogel (15th-century), German printer References