Follen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Charles Follen Adams (1842–1918), American poet August Ludwig Follen (1794–1855), German poet Charles Follen (1796–1840), German poet and patriot, became the first professor of German at Harvard University, a Unitarian minister, and a radical abolitionist Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860), author and abolitionist Paul Follen (1799–1844), German-American attorney and farmer, who had founded the Gießener Auswanderungsgesellschaft Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century

See also Follen Street Historic District, historic district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just northwest of the Cambridge Common Building at 10 Follen Street, historic house at 10 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts Follen Church Society-Unitarian Universalist, historic Unitarian Universalist congregation at 755 Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington, Massachusetts