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 Surnames of Swiss origin