Fried (pronounced /ˈfriːd/ FREED) is a Yiddish-language surname and also a German-language surname of German ancestry.^[1]

• Alan Fried, American wrestler
• Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
• Amelie Fried, German writer
• Andrew Fried, American director
• Avraham Fried, entertainer
• Barbara Fried (born 1951), American lawyer and professor
• Sir Bradley Fried, South African-British businessman
• Charles Fried, American jurist and lawyer
• Carl Simon Fried, German radiotherapy pioneer
• Cy Fried, American baseball player
• Daisy Fried, American poet
• Daniel Fried, American career diplomat, ambassador and Special Envoy
• David L. Fried, scientist
• Emanuel Fried, American dramatist
• Erich Fried, poet
• Eugen Fried, Slovak communist who played a leading role in the French Communist Party
• Ferdinand Fried, the pen-name of Ferdinand Zimmermann (German economist and writer)
• Fried Geuter (Carl Friedrich Wilhelm "Fried" Geuter), German educator
• George Fried, American sea captain
• Gerald Fried (1928–2023), American composer
• Golda Fried, poet and writer
• Heinrich Jakob Fried, German painter
• Heshy Fried, American comedian
• Howard Fried, American conceptual artist
• Ian Fried, American screenwriter
• Ina Fried, senior editor for All Things Digital
• Jake Fried, artist and animator
• Johann Jakob Fried, German obstetrician
• Johannes Fried, German historian
• Josef Fried, Polish-American organic chemist
• Lawrence Fried, American photo-journalist
• Limor Fried, American electrical engineer
• Max Fried (born 1994), American baseball pitcher
• Morton Fried, a professor of anthropology
• Michael Fried (art critic), Modernist art critic and art historian
• Miriam Fried (born 1946), Romanian violinist
• Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (born 1979), Chilean tennis player
• Nikki Fried (born 1977), American politician
• Norbert Fried, Czech writer, journalist and diplomat
• Oskar Fried, German conductor and composer
• Pál Fried, American painter
• Robert N. Fried, American film producer
• Sam Bankman-Fried (born 1992), American businessman
• Stephen Fried, American investigative journalist
• Volker Fried, former field hockey player from West Germany

• Frid
• Fried's rule