Freund (German for friend) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Family names
- August Freund, an Austrian chemist
- Freund reaction, discovered in 1881 by August Freund
- Bernhard II. Erich Freund, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1800–1882)
- Carl (William Freund) Walther (1858–1915), a German gunsmith
- Caroline Freund, American economist
- Christine Freund, a shooting victim
- Christoph Freund, Austrian football manager and former footballer
- Deborah Anne Freund, president of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California
- Don Freund (born 1947, Pittsburgh), an American composer and Professor of Composition
- Ðuro Freund, a Yugoslav Olympic fencer
- Ernst Freund (1864–1932), American legal scholar
- Etelka Freund (1879–1977), a Hungarian pianist
- Lawrence Joseph "Frank" Freund (1875–1933), a Major League Baseball catcher
- Gisèle Freund (1912–2000), photographer
- Hildegard Freund (1883–1933), Austrian politician and social campaigner
- Hugo Freund Sonnenschein, a prominent American economist and educational administrator
- James Freund (1946–1976) American unsolved murder victim
- Jacob Lincoln Freund (1918–2010), an American stage-, television- and film actor
- Jim Freund, a radio personality
- John Christian Freund (1848–1924), co-founder of Music Trades magazine in New York City
- Jonas Charles Hermann Freund (1808–1879), Austrian-British physician
- Jules T. Freund (1890–1960), immunologist
- Karl Freund (1890–1969), cinematographer and film director
- Kurt Freund (1914–1996), physician and sexologist
- Leopold Freund (1868–1943), a Jewish Austrian radiologist
- Marya Freund (1876–1966), French soprano
- Michael Freund (disambiguation):
- Michael Freund (historian)
- Michael Freund (activist), founder and chairman of the Jewish organization Shavei Israel
- Moshe Aryeh Freund (1894–1996), the Chief Rabbi (av beis din) of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem
- Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979), professor of comparative law
- Oliver Freund (born 1970), German footballer
- Paul A. Freund (1908–1992), American jurist and law professor
- Petra Schürmann-Freund (1933–2010), a German model, TV announcer, and actress
- Renate Freund (born 1939), German author
- Severin Freund, German ski jumper
- Steffen Freund (born 1970), German footballer
- Steve Freund (born 1952, Brooklyn), a blues guitarist, vocalist, bandleader and record producer
- Tom Freund, American singer-songwriter
- Wilhelm Freund (1806–1894), German philologist and lexicographer
- Wilhelm Alexander Freund (1833–1917), a German gynecologist
- Wilhelm Salomon Freund (1831–1915), a Jewish German lawyer and politician
- Yoav Freund, a researcher and professor at the University of California
Freundt
- Tracy Freundt, a Peruvian model
Other
- Freund's adjuvant, an immune system booster used in some vaccines
- Der Amerikanische Freund, a 1977 film by Wim Wenders
- Der Freund ("The Friend"), a literary magazine published by Axel Springer AG
- Lied für einen Freund ("Song For A Friend"), the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988
- Andy mein Freund, the debut single by German singer Sandra (released in 1976)
- Freund-Heintz House, a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Freund Publishing House, a publishing company
- Freund–Rubin compactification
- Killinger and Freund Motorcycle, an attempt in 1935 by a group of 5 German engineers
See also
- Freunde (disambiguation)
- Freundlich
- Similar names: Freud, Freudiger, etc.