Is the composer Felix Mendelsohn- Bartholdi in any way related to the maker of the Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi?
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Doesn't seem to be any relation. Though Abraham Mendelssohn (the composer's father) took on the name Bartholdiy upon conversion to Protestantism in 1822 (note the difference in spelling), still a while before Frédéric Bartholdi was born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Auguste_Bartholdi