Julius Reinhold Friedlander (1803–1839) was a German-American educator.

He was the founder of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Philadelphia, which later became the Overbrook School for the Blind.

[1] Julius Reinhold Friedländer (equivalently "Friedlaender") was born 21 April, 1803, in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia and now in Poland.

[2] In 1832 Friedlander founded the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, becoming its superintendent.

[3] In 1838, he and Samuel Gridley Howe published embossed versions of the Book of Ruth and the Book of Proverbs,.