Friend is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andy Friend (born 1969), Australian rugby union coachBob Friend (born 1930), American Major League baseball playerBob Friend (newscaster) (1938 - 2008), British newscasterCaleb Friend (born 2002), American BadassCharlotte Friend (1921 - 1987), American virologistClayton Friend (born 1964), New Zealand professional rugby league playerCliff Friend (1893 - 1974), American songwriter and pianistDanny Friend (1875 - 1942), American Major League baseball playerDonald Friend (1915 - 1989), Australian artist, writer and diaristGeorge Friend (born 1987), English footballerGeorge Friend (parliamentary official) (1835 - 1898), 3rd Clerk of the New Zealand House of RepresentativesHugo Friend (1882 - 1966), American athleteJacob Elias Friend (1857 - 1912), American state legislator, lawyer and businessmanJake Friend (born 1990), Australian rugby league playerJohn Friend (disambiguation), multiple peopleLonn Friend (born 1956), American journalist and authorLovick Friend (1856 - 1944), British Army major generalNatasha Friend (born 1972), American authorNathan Friend (born 1981), Australian rugby league footballerOscar J. Friend (1897 - 1963), American pulp-fiction authorOwen Friend (1927 - 2007), American Major League baseball playerPatricia A. Friend, International President of the Association of Flight AttendantsPeter Friend (disambiguation), multiple peoplePhyllis Friend (1922 – 2013), British nurseQuinton Friend (born 1982), South African cricketerRachel Friend (born 1970), Australian actressRichard Friend (born 1953), British physicistRob Friend (born 1981), Canadian soccer playerRobert Friend (1913 - 1998), American poetRupert Friend (born 1981), English actorSimon Friend (born 1967), English singer-songwriterTad Friend (born 1962), American journalistTheodore Friend (born 1931), American academicTravis Friend (born 1981), Zimbabwean international cricketerWilliam Benedict Friend (born 1931), Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport, Louisiana