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
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