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.
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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
References
- Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Alfred". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
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