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.^[1] 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

References