Fried is a Yiddish-language surname that is exclusively Ashkenazic Jewish and a German-language surname of German ancestry.
Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
Avraham Fried, popular musical entertainer in the Orthodox Jewish community
Charles Fried, conservative American jurist and lawyer
Daisy Fried, American poet
Daniel Fried, United States career diplomat, Ambassador and Special Envoy
David L. Fried, scientist, best known for his contributions to optics
Erich Fried, poet known for his political-minded poetry
Eugen Fried (1900–1943), Czechoslovak communist who played a leading role in the French Communist Party
Ferdinand Fried, the pen-name of Ferdinand Zimmermann German (economist and writer)
George Fried, American sea captain
Ina Fried, senior editor for All Things Digital
Jake Fried, artist and animator
Michael Fried (art critic), Modernist art critic and art historian
Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (born 1979), Chilean Olympic champion tennis player
Oskar Fried, German conductor and composer
Volker Fried, former field hockey player from West Germany
