Alfred (name)
Alfred is a masculine given name of English origin, a modern descendant of the Anglo-Saxon name Ælfræd, formed from the Germanic words ælf, meaning elf, and ræd, meaning counsel. Its feminine form is Alfreda and diminutives of Alfred include Al, Alf, Alfie, Fred, and Freddy. Today, Alfred is still in regular usage in a number of different regions, especially Great Britain, Africa, Scandinavia, and North America.
Cognates
- Ælfræd
- Alfréd
- Alfredo
- Alfrēds
- Alfredas
- Fredo
Given name
Royalty and politicians
- Alfred the Great, 9th-century King of Wessex
- Alfred Aetheling, son of King Ethelred II of England
- Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha grandson of Queen Victoria and son of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Alfred A. Lama, Italian-American architect and politician
- Alfred Bansard des Bois, French politician
- Alfred W. Bethea, South Carolina politician
- Alfred Winsor Brown, governor of Guam
- Alfred Deakin, a 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
- Alfred Dregger, German politician
- Alfred Goldthwaite, Alabama politician
- Alfred Gusenbauer, Austrian politician
- Alfred Käärmann, an Estonian freedom fighter
- Alf Landon, American politician
- Alfred Lecerf, a Belgian politician
- Al Smith, American statesman
- Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, German field marshal and strategist
Writers and philosophers
- Alfred Bester, an American science fiction author
- Alfred de Musset, a French romantic poet and playwright
- Alfred de Vigny, a French romantic poet
- Alfred Jarry, a French writer and founder of 'pataphysics
- Alfred Rosenberg, a German Nazi theorist
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, a British poet
- Alfred North Whitehead, an English analytic philosopher and mathematician, co-author of Principia Mathematica
Athletes
- Alfred Aboya, Cameroonian basketball player
- Alfred Bloch, French Olympic footballer
- Alfred Butch Lee, retired Puerto Rican basketball player
- Alfred Eissler, American football player
- Alfred Kipketer, Kenyan middle-distance runner and 2013 world youth champion
- Alfred Kuchevsky, Soviet professional ice hockey player
- Alfred McCullough, American football player
- Alfred Morris, American football player
- Alfred Neuland, Estonian weightlifter
- Alf Ramsey, English football manager
- Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter
- Alfred Tetteh, Ghanaian boxer
Businessmen
- Alfred Fielding, the inventor of Bubble Wrap
- Alfred Ford, heir to the Ford family fortune
- Alfred Goodwill, American merchant and landowner
- Alfred S. Hart, American business and banker, born as Alfred Harskovitz
- Alfred Herrhausen, German banker
- Alfred Lindon, businessman and art collector
- Alfred Pisani, a prominent hotelier
- Alfred Sung, a fashion designer
Artists and entertainers
- Alfred Biolek, German entertainer and television producer
- Alfred Gerald Caplin, real name of American cartoonist and humorist Al Capp
- Alfred Hawthorne, real name of English comedian Benny Hill
- Alfred Hirv, Estonian painter
- Alfred Hitchcock, film director especially in the suspense genre
- Alfred Molina, British and American actor
- Alfred Rasser, Swiss artist
- Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer
- Alfred Fred Momotenko, Russian-Dutch composer
- "Weird Al" Yankovic, parody–comedy musician with the real name Alfred Matthew Yankovic
- Alfred Hui, Hong Kong artist, singer and dentist
Military people
- Alfred Jodl, German Wehrmacht general who was executed at the Nuremberg trials
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, American naval strategist and historian
- Alfred Saalwächter, German naval officer executed for war crimes
- Alfred Dreyfus, French jewish artillery officer wrongly accused of treason
- Alfred Trzebinski, German SS-physician at several Nazi concentration camps executed for war crimes
- Alfred Zeidler, German SS concentration camp commandant
- Alfred K. Newman, United States Marine and Navajo code talker
Scientists
- Alfred Douglas Hardy, Australian botanist
- Alfred Kinsey, an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, famous for his research on human sexuality
- Alfred Marshall, an English economist
- Alfred Newton, an English zoologist and ornithologist
- Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and engineer
- Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann, German physiologist, anatomist, and philosopher
- Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist
- Alfred Wegener, a German scientist
Fictional characters
- Alfred, major character, a penguin, in the Franco-Belgian comic strip Zig et Puce
- Alfred, nickname of the nature spirit Demonreach, a minor character in the Dresden Files series
- Alfred, character in the video game Fatal Fury
- Alfred, alchemist and playable character in
- Alfred, Sartan character from the novel Dragon Wing and other books of The Death Gate Cycle
- Alfred Alembick, character from King Ottokar's Sceptre
- Alfred Doolittle, father of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
- Alfred Hedgehog, main character of the French-Canadian animated television series The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
- Alfred J. Kwak, main character of the eponymous Dutch-Japanese anime television series
- Alfred E. Neuman, mascot and iconic cover boy of Mad magazine
- Alfred Pennyworth, butler to DC Comics character Batman
- Alfred the Hot Water Bottle from Australian children's television series Johnson and Friends
- Alfred F. Jones, the personification of the United States of America and leader of the Allied Powers in the anime Hetalia by Hidekaz Himaruya
Other
- Alfred of Sherborne, English bishop
- Alfred Westou,, English priest and relic collector
- Alfred of Sareshel, translator, born in England, moved to Spain
- Alfred Packer, American cannibal
- Sir, Alfred Mehran, birth name Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian refugee
- Alfred Worden, American astronaut, one of only 24 people who have flown to the Moon
- Alfred Francis, Welsh rugby player
Surname
- Mike Alfred, a South African poet