Friend (surname)
Friend is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andy Friend, Australian rugby union coach
- Bill Friend (engineer), American executive, Bechtel president in the 1980s
- Bill Friend (politician), American politician
- Bob Friend, American Major League baseball player
- Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster
- Charlotte Friend, American virologist
- Clayton Friend, New Zealand professional rugby league player
- Cliff Friend, American songwriter and pianist
- Danny Friend, American Major League baseball player
- Donald Friend, Australian artist, writer and diarist
- George Friend, English footballer
- George Friend (parliamentary official), 3rd Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Harold Friend, English footballer
- Hugo Friend, American athlete
- Jacob Elias Friend, American state legislator, lawyer and businessman
- Jake Friend, Australian rugby league player
- James Friend, Academy Award-winning British cinematographer
- John Friend (disambiguation), multiple people
- John Albert Newton Friend, British chemist
- Kevin Friend, British football referee
- Lonn Friend, American journalist and author
- Lovick Friend, British Army major general
- Marian Friend, American philanthropist
- Matthew Curling Friend, Australian inventor and public servant
- Natasha Friend, American author
- Nathan Friend, Australian rugby league footballer
- Oscar J. Friend, American pulp-fiction author
- Owen Friend, 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, British nurse
- Quinton Friend, South African cricketer
- Rachel Friend, Australian actress
- Richard Friend, British physicist
- Rob Friend, Canadian soccer player
- Robert Friend (poet), American poet
- Robert Friend (pilot), US Air Force lieutenant colonel and Tuskegee Airman
- Rupert Friend, English actor
- Simon Friend, English singer-songwriter
- Tad Friend, American journalist
- Theodore Friend, American academic
- Tom Friend, English cricketer
- Travis Friend, Zimbabwean international cricketer
- William Benedict Friend, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport, Louisiana