Zeidler is a German occupational surname meaning "Beekeeper".^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Alfred Zeidler (1902–?), German SS concentration camp commandant
• Carl Zeidler (1908–1942), American mayor
• David Zeidler (1918–1998), Australian chemist and industrialist
• Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler (1926–2022), German-Canadian architect
• Eberhard Hermann Erich Zeidler (1940–2016), German mathematician
• Frank Zeidler (1912–2006), American politician
• Judith Zeidler (born 1968), German rower
• Othmar Zeidler (1850–1911), Austrian chemist
• Peter Zeidler (born 1962), German football manager
• Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler (1657–c. 1706), German poet
• Wolfgang Zeidler (1924–1987), German legal scholar and judge