Fried (surname)

Fried or Freid is a Yiddish-language surname that is exclusively Ashkenazic Jewish and also a German-language surname of German ancestry.


 * Alan Fried, American wrestler
 * Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
 * Amelie Fried, German writer
 * Andrew Fried, American director
 * Avraham Fried, entertainer
 * Barbara Fried (born 1951), American lawyer and professor
 * Sir Bradley Fried, South African-British businessman
 * Charles Fried, American jurist and lawyer
 * Carl Simon Fried, German radiotherapy pioneer
 * Cy Fried, American baseball player
 * Daisy Fried, American poet
 * Daniel Fried, American career diplomat, ambassador and Special Envoy
 * David L. Fried, scientist
 * Emanuel Fried, American dramatist
 * Erich Fried, poet
 * Eugen Fried, Slovak communist who played a leading role in the French Communist Party
 * Ferdinand Fried, the pen-name of Ferdinand Zimmermann (German economist and writer)
 * Fried Geuter (Carl Friedrich Wilhelm "Fried" Geuter), German educator
 * George Fried, American sea captain
 * Gerald Fried (1928–2023), American composer
 * Golda Fried, poet and writer
 * Heinrich Jakob Fried, German painter
 * Heshy Fried, American comedian
 * Howard Fried, American conceptual artist
 * Ian Fried, American screenwriter
 * Ina Fried, senior editor for All Things Digital
 * Jake Fried, artist and animator
 * Jared Freid, American comedian and podcaster
 * Johann Jakob Fried, German obstetrician
 * Johannes Fried, German historian
 * Josef Fried, Polish-American organic chemist
 * Lawrence Fried, American photo-journalist
 * Limor Fried, American electrical engineer
 * Max Fried (born 1994), American baseball pitcher
 * Morton Fried, a professor of anthropology
 * Michael Fried (art critic), Modernist art critic and art historian
 * Miriam Fried (born 1946), Romanian violinist
 * Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (born 1979), Chilean tennis player
 * Nikki Fried (born 1977), American politician
 * Norbert Fried, Czech writer, journalist and diplomat
 * Oskar Fried, German conductor and composer
 * Pál Fried, American painter
 * Robert N. Fried, American film producer
 * Sam Bankman-Fried (born 1992), American businessman
 * Stephen Fried, American investigative journalist
 * Volker Fried, former field hockey player from West Germany