Friend is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andy Friend (born 1969), Australian rugby union coach
Bob Friend (born 1930), American Major League baseball player
Bob Friend (newscaster) (1938 - 2008), British newscaster
Caleb Friend (born 2002), American Badass
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 (1875 - 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
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
John Friend (disambiguation), multiple people
Lonn Friend (born 1956), American journalist and author
Lovick Friend (1856 - 1944), British Army major general
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 (disambiguation), multiple people
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 (1913 - 1998), American poet
Rupert Friend (born 1981), English actor
Simon Friend (born 1967), English singer-songwriter
Tad Friend (born 1962), American journalist
Theodore Friend (born 1931), American academic
Travis Friend (born 1981), Zimbabwean international cricketer
William Benedict Friend (born 1931), Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport, Louisiana
