Alfred (name)

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Alfred is a masculine given name of English origin, a modern descendant of the Anglo-Saxon name Ælfræd (Old English pronunciation: [ˈæɫfræːd]), 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)
• Alfred (Catalan)
• 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 (1844–1900), 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), 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
• Alfred Joseph Richard de Soysa (1869-1939), Sri Lankan Sinhala landowner and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
• 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, American science fiction author
• Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French romantic poet and playwright
• Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French romantic poet
• Alfred Jarry, French writer and founder of 'pataphysics
• Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), German Nazi theorist
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), British poet
• Alfred North Whitehead, 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 (born 1956), retired Puerto Rican basketball player
• Alfred Eissler (1896–1954), 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 (born 1989), American football player
• Alfred Morris (born 1988), American football player
• Alfred Neuland (1895–1966), Estonian weightlifter
• Alf Ramsey (1920–1999), English football manager
• Alfred Schmidt (1898–1972), Estonian weightlifter
• Alfred Skrobisch (1913–1991), American fencer
• Alfred Tetteh (born 1975), Ghanaian boxer

Businessmen[]

• Alfred O. Deshong (1837-1913), American businessman, philanthropist and art collector
• Alfred Fielding, inventor of Bubble Wrap
• Alfred Ford (born 1950), heir to the Ford family fortune
• Alfred S. Hart (1904–1979), American businessman and banker
• Alfred Herrhausen (1930–1989), German banker
• Alfred Lindon (c. 1868–1948), businessman and art collector
• Alfred Lion (1908–1987), American record executive
• Alfred Pisani (born 1939), Maltese businessman and hotelier
• Alfred Sung (born 1948), Canadian fashion designer and businessman

Artists and entertainers[]

• Alfred Biolek (1934–2021), German entertainer and television producer
• Alfred Gerald Caplin (1909–1979), American cartoonist and humorist better known as "Al Capp"
• Alfred Edirimanne (1929-2000), Sri Lankan Sinhala cinema actor and politician
• Alfred Hill, English comedian better known as "Benny Hill"
• Alfred Hirv (1880–1918), Estonian painter
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), English film director
• Alfred Leslie (born 1927), American artist and filmmaker
• Alfred Molina (born 1953), British-American actor
• Alfred Rasser (1907–1977), Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor
• Alfred Ryder (1916–1995), American film, radio, and television actor
• Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), German-Soviet composer
• Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), American photographer and modern art promoter
• Alfred Fred Momotenko (born 1970), Russian-Dutch composer
• Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American parody–comedy musician
• Alfred Enoch (born 1988), British actor

Military people[]

• Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French Jewish artillery officer wrongly accused of treason
• Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), German Wehrmacht general who was executed at the Nuremberg trials
• Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), American naval strategist and historian
• Alfred K. Newman (1924–2019), United States Marine and Navajo code talker
• Alfred Saalwächter (1883–1945), German naval officer executed for war crimes
• 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

Scientists[]

• Alfred L. Elwyn (1804-1884), American physician and pioneer in the training and care of the mentally disabled
• Alfred Douglas Hardy (1870–1958), Australian botanist
• Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956), American entomologist, zoologist, and human sexuality researcher
• Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), English economist
• Alfred Newton (1829–1907), English zoologist and ornithologist
• Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist and engineer
• Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801–1877), German physiologist, anatomist, and philosopher
• Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist
• Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German earth and weather scientist

Fictional characters[]

• 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, nickname of the nature spirit Demonreach, a minor character in The Dresden Files
• Alfred, character in the video game Fatal Fury (series)
• Alfred the Hot Water Bottle, from Australian children's television series Johnson and Friends
• Alfred, major character, a penguin, in the Franco-Belgian comic strip Zig et Puce
• 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 TV series The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
• Alfred F. Jones, personification of the United States of America and leader of the Allied Powers in the anime Hetalia by Hidekaz Himaruya
• 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 superhero Batman

Other[]

• Alfred of Sareshel (12th–13th century), translator, born in England, moved to Spain
• Alfred of Sherborne (10th century), English bishop
• Alfred Francis (before 1909-after 1919), Welsh rugby player
• Sir Alfred Mehran (born 1946), birth name Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian refugee
• Alfred Packer (1842–1907), American cannibal
• Alfred Westou, (11th century), English priest and relic collector
• Alfred Worden (1932–2020), American astronaut, business executive, and author

Surname[]

• Mike Alfred (poet), a South African poet

See also[]

• Alfredo

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