Alfred (name)

Alfred is a masculine given name of English origin, a modern descendant of the Anglo-Saxon name Ælfræd (Old English pronunciation: [ˈælfˌræːd]), 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 (Anglo-Saxon)
• Alfréd (Hungarian, Slovakian)
• Alfredo (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
• Alfrēds (Latvian)
• Alfredas (Lithuanian)
• Fredo (diminutive of Alfredo)

Given name

Royalty and politicians

• Alfred the Great, 9th-century King of Wessex
• Alfred Aetheling (died 1036), 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 (1899–1984), Italian-American architect and politician
• Alfred Bansard des Bois (1848–1920), French politician
• Alfred Winsor Brown, governor of Guam
• Alfred Deakin, (1856–1919) a 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
• Alfred Dregger (1920–2002), German politician
• Alfred Gusenbauer (born 1960), Austrian politician
• Alfred Käärmann (1922–2010), Estonian freedom fighter
• Alf Landon, American politician
• Alfred Lecerf, Belgian politician
• Alfred Mtsi (1950/1951–2020), South African politician
• Al Smith, American statesman
• Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833–1913), German field marshal and strategist

Writers and philosophers

• Alfred Bester, an American science fiction author
• Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), a French romantic poet and playwright
• Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), a French romantic poet
• Alfred Jarry, a French writer and founder of 'pataphysics
• Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), 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 (born 1985), Cameroonian basketball player
• Alfred Bloch (born 1877), French Olympic footballer
• Alfred Butch Lee, retired Puerto Rican basketball player
• Alfred Eissler, American football player
• Alfred Kipketer (born 1996), Kenyan middle-distance runner and 2013 world youth champion
• Alfred Kuchevsky (1931–2000), Soviet professional ice hockey player
• Alfred McCullough, American football player
• Alfred Morris, American football player
• Alfred Neuland (1895–1966), Estonian weightlifter
• Alf Ramsey, English football manager
• Alfred Schmidt (1898–1972), Estonian weightlifter
• Alfred Tetteh, Ghanaian boxer

Businessmen

• Alfred Fielding, the inventor of Bubble Wrap
• Alfred Ford (born 1950), heir to the Ford family fortune
• Alfred S. Hart, American business and banker, born as Alfred Harskovitz
• Alfred Herrhausen (1930–1989), German banker
• Alfred Lindon (c. 1868–1948), businessman and art collector
• Alfred Pisani, a prominent hotelier
• Alfred Sung, a fashion designer

Artists and entertainers

• Alfred Biolek (born 1934), German entertainer and television producer
• Alfred Gerald Caplin (20th century), real name of American cartoonist and humorist Al Capp
• Alfred Hawthorne, real name of English comedian Benny Hill
• Alfred Hirv (1880–1918), Estonian painter
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), film director especially in the suspense genre
• Alfred Molina, British and American actor
• Alfred Rasser, Swiss artist
• Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer
• Alfred Fred Momotenko, (born 1970) Russian-Dutch composer
• "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), parody–comedy musician with the real name Alfred Matthew Yankovic
• Alfred Hui, Hong Kong artist, singer and dentist

Military people

• Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), German Wehrmacht general who was executed at the Nuremberg trials
• Alfred Thayer Mahan (19th century), American naval strategist and historian
• Alfred Saalwächter (1883–1945), German naval officer executed for war crimes
• Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French Jewish artillery officer wrongly accused of treason
• Alfred Trzebinski (1902–1946), German SS-physician at several Nazi concentration camps executed for war crimes
• Alfred Zeidler (born 1909), German SS concentration camp commandant
• Alfred K. Newman (1924–2019), United States Marine and Navajo code talker

Scientists

• Alfred Douglas Hardy (19th–20th century), Australian botanist
• 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 Newton, an English zoologist and ornithologist
• Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), a Swedish chemist and engineer
• Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801–1877), German physiologist, anatomist, and philosopher
• Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist
• Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), 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 (series)
• Alfred, alchemist and playable character in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
• 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 (10th century), English bishop
• Alfred Westou, (11th century), English priest and relic collector
• Alfred of Sareshel (12th–13th century), translator, born in England, moved to Spain
• Alfred Packer (19th century), American cannibal
• Sir, Alfred Mehran (20th century), birth name Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian refugee
• Alfred Worden (20th century), American astronaut, one of only 24 people who have flown to the Moon
• Alfred Francis, Welsh rugby player
• Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer

Surname

• Mike Alfred (poet), a South African poet

See also

• Alfredo