Friese (family name)
Friese or Friesé is the family name of the following people:
- Alexander Friese (1876 – after 1902), German actor
- Arved Friese (* 2002), German actor
- August Robert Friese (1805–1848), publisher and bookseller in Leipzig
- Bela Friese (1878 – after 1902), actress
- Benvenuto-Paul Friese (* 1928), German politician (DVU, DLVH)
- Bruno Friese (1873 – after 1902), German actor
- Carl Friese (actor) (1855–1912), German theater actor
- Carl Adolf Friese (1831–1900), German theater actor
- Carl Rudolf Friese , Austrian actor and film director
- Christian Gottlieb Friese (1717–1795), German councilor to King Stanisław August of Poland and president of the Evangelical-Augsburg consistory in Warsaw
- Christian-Peter Friese (1948–1970), German fatality on the Berlin Wall
- Claude Friese-Greene (born Claude Harrison Greene ; 1898–1943), British cameraman, producer and director
- Dora Friese (1883–1965), German tamer
- Eberhard Friese (1940-2004), German Japanologist
- Ernst August Friese (1880–1955), German musician, university professor and publicist
- Ernst Robert Friese-Skuhra (1886–1949), Austrian actor, film distributor, director, screenwriter and writer
- Eugen Friese (1845–1915), German writer and officer
- Friedemann Friese (* 1970), German game designer
- Friedrich Friese I (1765–1833), German teacher, organist and organ builder
- Friedrich Friese II (1792–1863), German organist and organ builder
- Friedrich Friese III (1827–1896), German organ builder
- Gerald Friese (* 1958), German screenwriter, actor and director
- Gottlieb Friese (1866–1945), German veterinarian
- Hans-Günter Friese (* 1940), German pharmacist
- Harald Friese (* 1945), German politician (SPD)
- Heidrun Friese (* 1958), German anthropologist and university professor
- Heinrich Friese (medic) (1630–1690), German medic
- Heinrich Friese (biologist) (1860–1948), German biologist and entomologist
- Heinz Friese (1931–1975), German sinologist
- Heinz W. Friese (1930–2012), German teacher and geographer
- Hermann Friese (soccer player) (1882–1945), German-Brazilian athlete and soccer player
- Hermann Friese (politician) (1911–1996), German politician (CDU)
- Holger Friese (* 1968), German net artist
- Ingrid Friese (* 1952), German politician (SPD)
- Isidora Emilie Friese (1867 / 1868–1944), Austrian actress, see Josefine Dora
- Jantje Friese (* 1977), German film producer and screenwriter
- Johann Bernhard Friese (1643–1726), German legal scholar
- Johannes Friese (historian) (* 1741), German historian
- Johannes Friese (collector) (1839–1916), German post office clerk and antiquities collector
- Julia Friese (* 1979), German illustrator
- Julia Friese (author) (* 1985), German book author and journalist
- Julius Anthoni Friese († 1584), organ builder in Danzig, see Julius Anthoni
- Käthe Friese (1871 – after 1902), German theater actress, see Käthe Huth
- Karl Friese (librarian) (1863–1920), German librarian and historian
- Karl Friese (actor) (1869 – after 1902), actor
- Karl Friese (author) , German author
- Karl Ferdinand Friese (1770–1837), Prussian State Secretary and Director of the Prussian Main Bank
- Karl-Heinz Friese (* 1955), German physician
- Klaus Friese (* 1949), German gynecologist and obstetrician
- Lotte Friese-Korn (1899–1963), German politician (FDP)
- Martin Friedrich Friese (also Frieß, Friess ; 1632–1700), German physician
- Matthias Friese (1739–1786), German teacher, organist and organ builder
- Max Friese (1883–1958), German painter and graphic artist
- Merten Friese († after 1639), organ builder in Danzig
- Mike Friese (* 1983), German American football player
- Mizzi Friese (1880 – after 1902), Austrian actress
- Oscar Friese (1885–1943), German politician (DVP)
- Paul Friesé (also Friésé; 1851–1917), French architect
- Peter Friese (* 1952), German art historian and curator
- Reinhardt Friese (* 1968), German theater director
- Richard Friese (1854–1918), German animal painter and sculptor
- Robert Friese (1868–1925), German electrical engineer and university professor
- Rudolf Friese (1919–1996), Austrian entrepreneur
- Siegfried Friese (* 1943), German politician (SPD)
- Theodor Friese (1813–1852), German organist and composer
- Werner Friese (1946–2016), German football goalkeeper
- Wilhelm Friese (1924–2008), German Scandinavian and literary scholar
- William Friese-Greene (1855–1921), British inventor and photographer