Downend may refer to:
;Places in England
- Downend, Berkshire, a village
- Downend, Isle of Wight
- Downend, South Gloucestershire, a suburb of Bristol
- Downend air crash
- Downend, a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, Gloucestershire
- Downend, a hamlet in the civil parish of Puriton in Somerset
- Downend Castle
;People
- Richard Downend (born 1945), English cricketer and rugby union player