Find Someone’s Email Address Now: 14 Free Methods

Looking to reach out to a prospect but struggling to find their email?

Try these 15 methods to find someone’s email address fast.

Best part? They’re all free.

If you can't find someone's email using these methods, it's likely not publicly available.

1. Use Email Lookup Tools 🔍

Email lookup tools need a name and company or domain name.

These tools can quickly help you find someone’s email address.

Most email lookup tools have free plans with a limited number of credits.

Some tools with lookup features are:

• lemlist
• RocketReach
• Skrapp

lemlist Free Email Finder

One of the easiest ways to find someone’s email is with lemlist’s Free email finder.

As with most lookup tools, it needs a name and a company name or website.

However, you can also use a LinkedIn profile URL.

You can find up to 50 email addresses per bulk search daily for a maximum of 100 daily leads.

Nice features, huh? Try it out below:

2. Use an Email Permutator  🔀

Even if an email is not available in any lookup tool, you can still find it.

How?

By guessing your lead’s email.

What? Guessing?

Don’t worry. You’re not going to guess each email variation one by one.

Instead, let’s scale this email guessing by using an email permutator.

An email permutator generates possible email address combinations based on a person's name and company domain.

It takes the first name, last name, or both and applies common email formats (such as first.last@domain.com or first_last@domain.com) to create multiple permutations.

Example:

If you know someone's name is John Doe and the company's domain is example.com, an email permutator might generate combinations like:

• john.doe@example.com
• jdoe@example.com
• john_d@example.com
• j.doe@example.com

You can then verify the list of emails with an email verifier to find the right one.

Make sense?

Try out our email permutator by filling in your lead’s info below:

3. Use lemlist’s People Database 👥

lemlist’s People database consists of 450M+ contacts and 63M+ companies.

You can search for your leads by name and (many) other filters, such as job title, department, and company size.

With lemlist’s free plan, you can find up to 100 verified emails each month.

Here’s how:

1. Sign up for the lemlist free plan

2. Log in and go to the People database

3. Search for the name of your lead (or use any other filter

4. Select leads and click “Push to campaign”

5. Go to your campaign to find the leads’ email addresses there

Note: You can also upload a list of LinkedIn profile URLs and bulk search for your prospects’ emails.

4. Use Chrome Extensions to Extract Emails from LinkedIn 📧

Another way to find someone’s email address is by using a Chrome extension.

lemlist’s Chrome extension allows you to extract emails from LinkedIn profiles.

You can either go to a profile page and push the lead and their email address to a lemlist campaign…

Or select leads on a search page and send them to a campaign.

If email addresses are available for your leads, you can then find them in your campaign.

5. Check Your Lead’s Website 🌐

If your lead has a website, you may be able to find their email address there.

Contact and About pages are usually your best bets.

Of course, many such pages use contact forms, which may not be what you’re looking for.

However, some people display their email addresses. Here are several ways in which emails might appear on contact or about pages:

• Straight up: For example theiremail@theirdomain.com
• Hidden in text: Eg.: theiremail [at] theirdomain [dot] com
• Linked rather than visible: Hover over “Contact” or similar links to reveal an email address in your browser's bottom bar
• Embedded in images: In business cards, for example. In this case, you likely won’t be able to copy and paste the email, but you can type it manually to save it somewhere else.

6. Check WHOIS Domain Registration Records 📜

If your lead is the face of a (small) brand, you might find their email in their domain’s WHOIS records.

Use a WHOIS database like Whois.com and search for your lead’s domain.

You can usually find some email data when scrolling down on the results. ⬇️

However, it’s important to note that many domains have privacy protection on personal details like the registrar's name, address, and, you guessed it, email.

Still, you may be able to find some leads’ emails in a WHOIS database.

7. Use Advanced Google Search Operators ⚙️

You can also use Google to try to find your lead’s email.

Sometimes, the email is just right there in the open without you realizing it.

Google does realize it, and all you have to do to access Google’s psyche is use advanced search operators:

Find any email address associated with a domain

To find any email address associated with a site use:

site:example.com "@example.com”

Or even just:

“@example.com”

This approach can work for smaller sites or personal brands.

Search for a person’s email address

You can also use more specific search operators to find the email addresses of any particular person.

This is how:

"John Doe" "@example.com”

For example, this is what happens when we search Bill Gates’ email address. ⬇️

Search for emails in publicly available documents

The following search string finds emails in PDF documents. It can dig up emails in resumes, reports, etc.

Here’s how to perform this search:

John Doe "@domain.com" filetype:pdf

And here’s a real-life example of such a search. ⬇️

Search by role or job position

Sometimes, you don’t have an exact name, but you still know “who” you want to contact.

For example, say you want to find the email address of Semrush’s Social Media Marketing Manager, but you don’t know their exact name.

You could use lemlist’s People database and send the lead directly to your campaign.

But if, for whatever reason, you don’t want to do that, you can also Google it.

Use this simple string:

"social media marketing manager" "@semrush.com”

8. Figure Out the Company’s Email Format 🧩

Companies tend to use a default email format.

Some companies use first_name@domain.com, while others use first_initial-last_name@domain.com. Other combinations are also possible.

Email-format.com can give you the email format of thousands of domains.

As an example, these are the results for HubSpot.com:

Pretty clear, right?

The most likely email format for HubSpot is first_initial last_name@hubspot.com.

So, if your lead’s name is Jane Doe, and she works at HubSpot, chances are that her email is JDoe@hubspot.com.

9. Download Your LinkedIn Archive 📥

Is your lead amongst your LinkedIn connections?

Then, you can download your LinkedIn archive and extract your prospects’ emails.

Here’s how you do that.

1. Go to Settings & Privacy on LinkedIn

2. Now click on Data Privacy

3. Now hit Get a copy of your data button

4. Select Connections

5. LinkedIn will now prepare your download. It will take 10 minutes max.

6. Click the Download archive button

7. Check for your leads’ emails (You can only view email addresses of connections who have permitted their connections to see or download them.)

10. Check Your Lead’s Social Media Profile 👀

Sometimes, finding someone’s email is as easy as checking their social media profiles.

People working in sales, growth, recruitment, and partnerships want to make it easy for people to contact them.

For example, on LinkedIn, you can click on the Contact Info link. If your prospect has decided to share their email address, you can find it here.

On X (Twitter) and other social media networks, you can sometimes find someone’s email in their bio.

And every now and then, you simply can’t miss the email. ⬇️

11. Get an Introduction from Someone Else 🤝

Where would you be without your friends?

Ok, maybe not your friends, but your network.

If you know someone who knows someone (your prospect), why not reach out to them and ask for an introduction?

If your intentions are sincere and your connection with the third party is strong enough, it’s an easy way to get hold of someone’s email.

12. Subscribe to Your Prospect’s Newsletter 📨

Yeah, this one’s a bit weird…

But if your prospect has a personal brand and a newsletter, they sometimes send it from their own email address.

If so, all you have to do to get their email is check where the newsletter is coming from.

Here’s how to check the “from” email address in Gmail:

13. Check Your Newsletter Subscribers 👥 👥

If you run a newsletter or have an email list related to the niche or industry your lead works in, then why not quickly check if your lead is on it?

It shouldn’t take longer than 30 seconds to search for their email address in your subscriber list.

Best part?

They are already interested in what you have to say.

14. Subscribe to a Product Trial 🆓

Not a quick one, but it could get you the email address of someone important.

If your lead is a central figure of a startup, you could get hold of their email address by signing up for a trial of their product.

In startups, founders, CEOs, or other senior leaders often take a hands-on role in customer engagement, especially during early-stage growth.

These interactions could put you in touch with the big shots and thus help you get their email address.

Important: Before You Use Any of the Emails You Found ⚠️

Reaching out to any email you find is a recipe for disaster.

You must verify the emails first, as sending to unverified ones could lead to bounces.

A high bounce rate will ruin your sender reputation and email deliverability.

Once an email is verified, the chances of your email bouncing go down dramatically.

How do you verify emails?

To verify a few emails, use this email checker.

To verify larger email lists, read this next:

Top 10 best email verification tools in 2025