Friend (surname)

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
 * 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, 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