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Frieda Rohl (c. 1851 - 27 November 1910) was a Scottish artist. She was a founder and first Honorary Treasurer of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in 1882.

Life
Her father was John Rohl (born c. 1830), a landowner from Prussia.

Her mother had the maiden surname Stankevitch.

Frieda Rettig Rohl was born in Konisberg in Prussia, c. 1851. The city is now Kalingrad, in the Russian exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast.

She married the artist James Pittendrigh Macgillivray on 11 May 1886 in Chelsea, London. Her usual address was given as Hillhead, Glasgow.

Art
She first exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1877 while she stayed at 47 Carnarvon Street. She exhibted the work: Flagon and fruit and Study of a beech tree. In 1880 she exhibited In Glenfinlas.

She was one of the original founders and first Honorary Treasurer of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists. She resigned the position shortly after her marriage.

She was advertising art classes from 136 Wellington Street in 1882. It was from that address that she gave to exhibit at the RSA that year: The gatekeeper and At the edge of the wood.

She exhibited at the 2nd Hawick Fine Arts Exhibition in 1884. She exhibited the work The duck pond at the Dundee Fine Arts exhibition in 1884. She exhibited the work: Waiting for the tide at the Aberdeen Fine Arts Exhibition of 1886.

She moved to Edinburgh in 1894.

Death
She died on 27 November 1910 at Ravelston Elms, Murrayfield, Edinburgh.

She is buried at Gogarburn cemetery alongside her husband.