Friend is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andy Friend (born 1969), Australian rugby union coach
• Bill Friend (engineer) (died 2021), American executive, Bechtel president in the 1980s
• Bill Friend (politician) (born 1949), American politician
• Bob Friend (1930–2019), American Major League baseball player
• Bob Friend (newscaster) (1938–2008), British newscaster
• Charlotte Friend (1921–1987), American virologist
• Clayton Friend (born 1964), New Zealand professional rugby league player
• Cliff Friend (1893–1974), American songwriter and pianist
• Danny Friend (1873–1942), American Major League baseball player
• Donald Friend (1915–1989), Australian artist, writer and diarist
• George Friend (born 1987), English footballer
• George Friend (parliamentary official) (1835–1898), 3rd Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives
• Harold Friend (1902–?), English footballer
• Hugo Friend (1882–1966), American athlete
• Jacob Elias Friend (1857–1912), American state legislator, lawyer and businessman
• Jake Friend (born 1990), Australian rugby league player
• James Friend, Academy Award-winning British cinematographer
• John Friend (disambiguation), multiple people
• John Albert Newton Friend (1881–1966), British chemist
• Kevin Friend (born 1971), British football referee
• Lonn Friend (born 1956), American journalist and author
• Lovick Friend (1856–1944), British Army major general
• Marian Friend (1923–2025), American philanthropist
• Matthew Curling Friend (1792–1871), Australian inventor and public servant
• Natasha Friend (born 1972), American author
• Nathan Friend (born 1981), Australian rugby league footballer
• Oscar J. Friend (1897–1963), American pulp-fiction author
• Owen Friend (1927–2007), American Major League Baseball player
• Patricia A. Friend, American International President of the Association of Flight Attendants
• Peter Friend (author), New Zealand science fiction author
• Peter Friend (surgeon), director of the Oxford Transplant Centre
• Phyllis Friend (1922–2013), British nurse
• Quinton Friend (born 1982), South African cricketer
• Rachel Friend (born 1970), Australian actress
• Richard Friend (born 1953), British physicist
• Rob Friend (born 1981), Canadian soccer player
• Robert Friend (poet) (1913–1998), American poet
• Robert Friend (pilot) (1920–2019), US Air Force lieutenant colonel and Tuskegee Airman
• Rupert Friend (born 1981), English actor
• Simon Friend (born 1967), English singer-songwriter
• Tad Friend (born 1962), American journalist
• Theodore Friend (1931–2020), American academic
• Tom Friend (born 1991), English cricketer
• Travis Friend (born 1981), Zimbabwean international cricketer
• William Benedict Friend (1931–2015), Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport, Louisiana

See also

• Senator Friend (disambiguation)
• Friends (disambiguation)

Surname list

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