Gottfried is a masculine German given name. It is derived from the Old High German name Godafrid, recorded since the 7th century. The name is composed of the elements god- (conflated from the etyma for 'God' and 'good', and possibly further conflated with gaut ) and frid- ('peace, protection').

Ignatius Gottfried Kaim was an Austrian chemist. In his dissertation De metallis dubiis published in 1770 Kaim describes the reduction of manganese oxide with carbon and the formation of a brittle metal. This is the first description of managanese metal several years before the better known synthesis of Johan Gottlieb Gahn in 1774.

Gottfried Bammes (26 April 1920 – 14 May 2007) was a professor of art at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Germany. His anatomic drawing textbooks have become standard reference works; several have been translated into English.

Gottfried Junker (born 18 June 1950 in Günzburg) is a German independent film director and photographer.

Richard N. Gottfried (born May 16, 1947) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician from Manhattan, New York City. He has represented the 75th District in the New York State Assembly for more than 40 years, making him the longest-serving member of that body.

Gottfried Schenker (14 February 1842 in Däniken, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland – 26 November 1901 in Vienna ) was the founder of Schenker AG.

Gottfried Ludwig Theobald (21 December 1810 in Allendorf – 15 September 1869 in Chur ) was a German-Swiss geologist and cartographer.