Friedrich Rosenthal (20 July 1885 in Vienna – 21 August 1942 at the Auschwitz concentration camp) was an Austrian director and playwright.
Rosenthal was a theatre historian, playwright and director.
From 1932 he was engaged as a playwright, artistic secretary and director at the Burgtheater.
In 1938, after the annexation of Austria, he fled to France, where he was arrested after the invasion of German troops by the Gestapo and eventually deported to Auschwitz and murdered.
Rosenthal was married in 1920 to the dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser, who was able to escape with some of her students to Colombia and later settled in Australia.