They may refer to:

In music

• Avraham Fried, Jewish composer and musical entertainer, also known as Avraham Friedman
• Dean Friedman, singer-songwriter
• Debbie Friedman, musician
• Gary William Friedman, composer
• Harry Freedman, Canadian composer, musician and educator
• Ignaz Friedman, Polish-Austrian pianist, composer, also known as Ignacy Friedman
• Kinky Friedman, singer and candidate for the Texas gubernatorial election, 2006
• Marc Friedman, electric bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer
• Marty Friedman (guitarist), guitarist
• Ross the Boss Friedman, guitarist
• Tim Freedman, the vocalist and pianist
• Matthew Friedman, musician, singer and performer
• Don Friedman, jazz pianist
• Stephan Friedman, Israeli experimental musician

In mathematics

• Alexander Friedman, mathematician and cosmologist
• Freedman-Diaconis rule, rule used to specify the number of bins to be used in a histogram
• Friedman number, integer which, in a given base, is the result of an expression using all its own digits
• Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist and mathematician specializing in functional languages at Indiana University.
• Harvey Friedman, mathematical logician at The Ohio State University
• Michael Freedman, mathematician at Microsoft Research
• Sy Friedman, logician at the University of Vienna
• William F. Friedman, cryptologist

In sports

• Henryk Friedman, Polish chess master
• Benny Friedman, American football quarterback
• Dougie Freedman, Scottish professional association footballer
• Lee Freedman, prominent Australian racehorse trainer
• Lennie Friedman, American football player for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL
• Marty Friedman (basketball), pro basketball player and coach
• Prahlad Friedman, professional poker player

In economics

• Benjamin M. Friedman, leading American political economist
• Daniel Friedman, Economics professor at UCSC and director of LEEPS (Learning and Experimental Economics Projects) of Santa Cruz
• Emanuel Friedman, banker
• Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
• Friedman rule, Milton Friedman's policy regarding cash-in-advance models of monetary systems
• Friedman's k-percent rule, Milton Friedman's policy regarding optimal money supply growth
• Friedman test, non-parametric statistical test developed by the U.S. economist Milton Friedman
• Rose Friedman, political author and the wife of Milton Friedman
• Stephen Friedman (PFIAB), chairman of the U.S. President Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• Bernát Friedmann, Hungarian jurist and criminal lawyer
• Bernie Friedman, attorney in Hollywood, Florida
• Daniel Friedmann, Israeli Minister of Justice
• David D. Friedman, libertarian writer
• Martin Freedman, Manitoba lawyer
• Michel Friedman, German former lawyer
• Samuel Freedman, lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Province of Manitoba
• Stephen J. Friedman, dean of Pace University School of Law
• Morris Friedman, private stenographer

In literature

• Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist, screenwriter and playwright
• Celia S. Friedman, science fiction novelist
• David Freedman, the first child, and only son of Sara and Israel Freedman
• David Friedman, writer
• Elizebeth Friedman, cryptanalyst and author
• Esther Pauline Friedman, advice columnist also known as Ann Landers
• Frieda Friedman, author
• David Gerrold, science fiction author, also known as Jerrold David Friedman
• Michael Jan Friedman, author
• Rita Friedman, creator of The Letter People
• Samuel G. Freedman, journalist
• Thomas L. Friedman, columnist

In television and film

• Budd Friedman, actor and producer
• Capturing the Friedmans, documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki
• David F. Friedman, American filmmaker and producer
• Josh Friedman, American screenwriter
• Maria Friedman, musical theatre actress
• Sidney Freedman, psychiatrist in the television series M*A*S*H

In science

• Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker, exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity
• Friedmann equations, equations relating various cosmological parameters
• Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist
• Herbert Friedman, rocket science, solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy
• Egon Friedell, Austrian philosopher, also known as Egon Friedmann
• Georges Friedmann (1902-1977), French sociologist
• Hermann Friedmann
• Irving Friedman, geochemist
• Jerome Isaac Friedman, Nobel Prize physicist
• Stanton T. Friedman, physicist and ufologist
• Meyer Friedman, medical scientist

In art

• Arnold Friedman (1874 – 1946), an American painter
• Drew Friedman, cartoonist
• Harold Freedman, artist public murals
• Ken Friedman, seminal figure in Fluxus
• Tom Friedman (artist), American sculptor

In photography

• Glen E. Friedman, photographer
• Robert Capa, 20th century war photographer, also known as Endré Ernő Friedmann

In religion

• Yisroel Friedman, Hasidic rebbe of Ruzhin
• David Noel Freedman, biblical scholar
• Meïr ben Jeremiah Friedmann, Hungarian-Austrian scholar, Jewish theologian
• Richard Elliott Friedman, scholar of biblical criticism
• Israel Friedmann, founder of the Ruzhiner dynasty
• Manis Friedman, biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker

In history

• Renee Friedman, American Egyptologist
• Paul Freedman, historian

In education

• Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, school
• James O. Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College
• Richard A. Friedman, Director of Psychopharmacology
• Samuel O. Freedman, clinical immunologist, professor
• Stephen J. Friedman, dean of Pace University School of Law

In business

• Eugene Freedman, entrepreneur and philanthropist
• George Friedman, the founder of Stratfor
• Joseph Friedman, inventor
• Nat Friedman, programmer
• Scott Friedman, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seegrid Corporation

In social work

• Freedman's Aid Society, organization
• Freedman's Bureau, federal agency that was formed during the American Civil War

In other fields

• Yohanan Friedmann,an Israeli scholar of Islamic studies.
• Friedman Memorial Airport, public airport located in the town of Hailey in Blaine County, Idaho, USA
• Tuviah Friedman, director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa
• Thomas Friedman, journalist
• Jeffrey Friedman, political scientist

See also

• Freedman, a former slave
• Fried
• Friedman (unit), a tongue-in-cheek neologism named after columnist Thomas L. Friedman
• Fridman