History
- Daniel Freeman (1826–1908), American homesteader
- Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), British historian
- Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) (c.1742-1829), Massachusetts slave, won freedom 1781
- Martin Henry Freeman (1826–1889), first black president of an American college
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