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Alfred (name)

Alfred is a masculine given name of English origin, a modern descendant of the Anglo-Saxon name Ælfrǣd (), formed from the Germanic words ', meaning "elf", and ', meaning "counsel". Its feminine form originating from Romance languages is Alfreda, and diminutives of Alfred include Al, Alf, Alfy, Alfie, Fred, and Freddy. After the 11th-century Norman Conquest, many variants of the name emerged, most of which were not carried to the modern day. Today, Alfred is still in regular usage in a number of different regions, especially Great Britain, Africa, Scandinavia, and North America. It is one of the few Old English names that came into common use in Europe. Its name day is the 3rd of January both in Norway and Sweden.

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Royalty and politicians

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Artists and entertainers

Military people

  • Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), French Jewish artillery officer wrongly accused of treason
  • Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), German Wehrmacht general who was executed following the Nuremberg trials
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), American naval strategist and historian
  • Alfred C. Markley (1843–1926), American brigadier general
  • Alfred K. Newman (1924–2019), United States Marine and Navajo code talker
  • Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893-1960), British Army officer with the Honourable Artillery Company, Victoria Cross and Military Cross recipient, author of crime and mystery books
  • Alfred Saalwächter (1883–1945), German naval officer executed for war crimes
  • Alfred Sully (1820–1879), U.S. Army Colonel and Union Army Brevet Brigadier General
  • Alfred Trzebinski (1902–1946), German SS physician at several Nazi concentration camps executed for war crimes
  • Alfred Zeidler (born 1902, date of death unknown), German SS concentration camp commandant

Scientists

  • Alfred L. Elwyn (1804–1884), American physician and pioneer in the training and care of mentally disabled people
  • Alfred Douglas Hardy (1870–1958), Australian botanist
  • Alfred Hoche (1865–1943), German psychiatrist, eugenicist, used pseudonym Alred Erich for poetry publication
  • 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 Ploetz (1860–1940), German physician, biologist, Social Darwinist, and eugenicist
  • Alfred Stillé (1813–1900), American physician
  • Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801–1877), German physiologist, anatomist, and philosopher
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist, who independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection
  • Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German earth and weather scientist

Fictional characters

  • Alfred, alchemist and playable character in '
  • 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 series Fatal Fury
  • Alfred, a playable character in the video game Fire Emblem Engage
  • 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 '
  • Alfred Alembick, character from King Ottokar's Sceptre
  • Alfred Doolittle, father of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
  • Alfred Garnett, lead character in the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part (1965–1975)
  • 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
  • Alfred Tezlaff, lead character in the German sitcom Ein Herz und eine Seele (1973–1976), based on Alfred Garnett
  • Alfred, a localized name for Kazuma Kuwabara (see list of YuYu Hakusho characters), in the Tagalog dub of YuYu Hakusho (known in the Philippines as Ghost Fighter)
  • Alfred Debling, a character in Bridgerton.

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