List of Famous people with last name Frere

Albert, Baron Frère was a Belgian billionaire businessman.

Gérald Frère is a Belgian businessman, the chairman of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert since January 2012, and its former CEO.

John Frere was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Lower Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797.

William Frere, was an English lawyer and academic, a law-serjeant and Master of Downing College, Cambridge.

Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet was a British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay (1862–1867). However, as High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1877–1880), he implemented a set of policies which attempted to impose a British confederation on the region and which led to the overthrow of the Cape's first elected government in 1878 and to a string of regional wars, culminating in the invasion of Zululand (1879) and the First Boer War (1880–1881). The British Prime Minister, Gladstone, recalled Frere to London to face charges of misconduct; Whitehall officially censured Frere for acting recklessly.