Alfred (name)

The name Alfred is a Germanic name of Old English origin, composed of the elements ælf "elf" and ræd "counsel". Its most famous bearer was Alfred the Great, the 9th-century English King. Famous modern people called Alfred include Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Nobel and Alfred Hitchcock.

Given name

People called Alfred:

• Alfred the Great, a King of Wessex and England
• Alfred Bester, an American science fiction author
• Alfred Winsor Brown, governor of Guam
• Alfred Jarry, a French writer and founder of 'pataphysics
• Alfred Packer, an American cannibal
• Alfred Pisani, a prominent hotelier
• Alfred, a video game character from the Fatal Fury (series)
• Merhan Karimi Nasseri (Alfred), a man who has been living in the departure hall of Terminal 1 of the Charles de Gaulle International Airport since 1988
• Alfred Hirv (1880–1918), an Estonian painter
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), a film director especially in the suspense genre, famous for Vertigo, Psycho, and Rear Window among others
• Alfred Käärmann (1922–2010), an Estonian freedom fighter
• Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956), an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, famous for his research on human sexuality
• Alfred Marshall, an English economist
• Alfred Meakin, a British track and field athlete
• Alfred Neuland (1895–1966), an Estonian weightlifter
• Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), a Swedish chemist and engineer
• Alf Ramsey, an English football manager
• Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), a German Nazi theorist
• Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
• Alfred Schmidt (1898–1972), an Estonian weightlifter
• Alfred Schnittke, a Russian composer
• Alfred Sung, a fashion designer
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, a British poet
• Alfred Tetteh, a Ghanaian boxer
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, an American naval strategist
• Alfred Trzebinski (1902–1946), a German SS-physician at several Nazi concentration camps
• Alfred Tsang, an Australian politician
• Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801–1877), German physiologist, anatomist, and philosopher
• Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), a German scientist
• Alfred North Whitehead, an English analytic philosopher and mathematician, co-author of Principia Mathematica
• "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959-), a parody–comedy musician with the real name Alfred Matthew Yankovic
• Michael Alfred Peszke, a Polish-American psychiatrist and historian
• Alfred Hawthorne Hill, the real name of the English comedian Benny Hill
• Alfred Fielding, the inventor of Bubble Wrap

Fictional characters

• Alfred Doolittle, the father of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady.
• Alfred Pennyworth, the butler to DC Comics character Batman
• Alfred the Sartan, a fictional character from The Death Gate Cycle
• Alfred F. Jones, the given name to the representation of America in the manga series, Hetalia: Axis Powers.
• Alfred E. Neuman, the fictional mascot and iconic cover boy of Mad magazine.

Surname

• Mike Alfred (poet), a South African poet

In other languages

• Albanian: Alfred
• Armenian: Ալֆրեդ (Alfred)
• Catalan: Alfred
• Czech: Alfréd
• Danish: Alfred
• Dutch: Alfred
• Estonian: Alfred
• French: Alfred
• Galician: Alfredo
• Georgian: ალფრედ (Alpred)
• German: Alfred
• Greek: Αλφρέδος (Alfrédos)
• Hebrew: אלפרד (Alfred)
• Hungarian: Alfréd
• Icelandic: Alfreth / Alfreþ
• Italian: Alfredo
• Latin: Alfredus
• Latvian: Alfrēds
• Lithuanian: Alfredas
• Norwegian: Alfred
• Polish: Alfred
• Portuguese: Alfredo
• Russian: Альфред (Alfred)
• Serbian: Алфред (Alfred)
• Slovak: Alfréd
• Slovene: Alfred
• Spanish: Alfredo
• Swedish: Alfred
• Turkish: Alfred
• Ukrainian: Альфред (Alfred)