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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, 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 Bester, an American science fiction author
- Alfred W. Bethea, South Carolina politician
- Alfred Winsor Brown, governor of Guam
- Alfred Deakin, (1856-1919) an 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
- Alfred Eissler, NFL player
- Alfred Fielding, the inventor of Bubble Wrap
- Alfred Goldthwaite (1921-1997), Alabama politician
- Alfred Goodwill (1830-1905), American merchant and landowner
- Alfred Jarry, a French writer and founder of 'pataphysics
- Merhan Karimi Nasseri (Alfred), a man who has been living in the departure hall of Terminal 1 of the Charles de Gaulle Airport since 1988
- Alfred S. Hart, American business and banker, born as Alfred Harskovitz.
- Alfred Hawthorne, the real name of English comedian Benny Hill
- 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 Kipketer (born 1996), Kenyan middle-distance runner and 2013 world youth champion
- Alfred Lindon (c.1868 - 1948), businessman and art collector
- Alfred Marshall, an English economist
- Alfred Morris, an American football player.
- Alfred Molina, a British and American actor
- Alfred Neuland (1895–1966), an Estonian weightlifter
- Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), a Swedish chemist and engineer
- Alfredo James "Al" Pacino, an American film and stage actor and director
- Alfred Packer, an American cannibal
- Alfred Pisani, a prominent hotelier
- 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 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
Fictional characters
- Alfred Doolittle, the father of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady.
- Alfred Pennyworth, the butler to DC Comics character Batman
- Alfred the Sartan, a fictional character from The Death Gate Cycle
- Alfred F. Jones, the given name of the national personification of the America in the webmanga series, Hetalia: Axis Powers.
- Alfred E. Neuman, the fictional mascot and iconic cover boy of Mad magazine.
- Alfred, a video game character from the Fatal Fury (series)
Surname
- Mike Alfred (poet), a South African poet
In other languages
- Albanian: Alfred
- Armenian: Ալֆրեդ (Alfred)
- Catalan: Alfred
- Czech: Alfréd
- Danish: Alfred
- Dutch: Alfred
- Estonian: Alfred
- French: Alfred
- Galician: Alfredo
- Georgian: ალფრედ (Alfred)
- German: Alfred
- Greek: Αλφρέδος (Alfrédos)
- Hebrew: אלפרד (Alfred)
- Hungarian: Alfréd
- Icelandic: Alfreth / Alfreþ
- Italian: Alfredo
- Latin: Alfredus
- Latvian: Alfrēds
- Lithuanian: Alfredas
- Macedonian: Алфред (Alfred)
- Maltese: Fredu (Alfred)
- Norwegian: Alfred
- Polish: Alfred
- Portuguese: Alfredo
- Russian: Альфред (Alfred)
- Serbian: Алфред (Alfred)
- Slovak: Alfréd
- Slovene: Alfred
- Spanish: Alfredo
- Swedish: Alfred
- Turkish: Alfred
- Ukrainian: Альфред (Alfred)
- Arabic:ألفريد (Alfred)