Alfred (name)
From MedBib.com - Medicine & Nature
In English the meaning of the name Alfred is: Sage; wise; elvin. From the Old English Aelfraed, meaning elf counsel. Also from Ealdfrith or Alfrid, meaning old peace. Famous bearers: Alfred the Great was a 9th-century king, Alfred Lord Tennyson was a famous 19th-century poet.
Given name
People called Alfred:
- Alfred the Great, king of Wessex
- Alfred Bester, American science fiction author
- Alfred Jarry, French writer and founder of 'pataphysics
- Alfred Pisani, prominent hotelier
- Alfred Packer, an American cannibal
- Alfred, video game character from the Fatal Fury series
- Alfred Pennyworth, butler to DC Comics character Batman
- Alfred, man who has been living in the departure hall of Terminal 1 of the Charles de Gaulle International Airport since 1988
- Alfred Hitchcock, film director especially in the suspense genre, famous for Vertigo, Psycho, and Rear Window, among others.
- Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, famous for his research on human sexuality
- Alfred Marshall, English economist
- Alfred Meakin, British track and field athlete
- Alfred Nobel
- Alf Ramsey, English football manager
- Alfred Rosenberg
- Alfred Schnittke, Russian Composer
- Alfred Sung
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet
- Alfred Trzebinski (1902–1946), German SS-physician at several Nazi concentration camps
- Alfred Tsang, Australian politician
- Alfred Wegener, German scientist
- Alfred North Whitehead, English analytic philosopher and mathematician, co-author of Principia Mathematica
- "Weird Al" Yankovic, a parody/comedy musician with the real name Alfred Matthew Yankovic
- Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish-American psychiatrist and historian
- Alfred the Sartan, a fictional character from The Death Gate Cycle
- Alfred Hawthorne Hill, real name of the famous English comedian Benny Hill
Surname
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